A colleague of mine attended the Jobs & Workforce Summit in Sturbridge today. She said over 300 political and business leaders were there and that Governor Patrick was terrific. This confirms a nice case he's been making: that we're … [Read more...]
Archives for June 22, 2010
Help Me Reach My Goal for Patrick!
In the grand and longstanding tradition of Kate Donoghue and BMG itself, I'm shilling for donations for a candidate - Governor Deval Patrick. You see, I'm staring down the barrel of a $2,500 goal for my house party, and you all … [Read more...]
A case for keeping the Pacheco Law
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Baker has listed repealing the Pacheco Law as one of his "Baker's Dozen" proposals for reducing public sector costs. The Boston Globe has editorialzed against the law as "wasteful policy," as has Globe … [Read more...]
Gut Check Time on Casinos and Slots
Okay, by many accounts we will soon be a casino state. The patient casino lobby has finally gotten a perfect storm. The damage? A huge squirt of toothpaste out of a tube of bad times. 1. A cold front from the north commanded by Winthrop's … [Read more...]
Ralph Nader on One on One with Maria Hinojosa
The son of immigrants from Lebanon, Ralph Nader founded or organized more than a hundred civic organizations across the United States. Over the last five decades he fought to protect Americans and played a key role in the creation of … [Read more...]
Five Reasons for Opposing Expanded Gambling in Mass. — Reasons #3 and 4
In the first two postings of this series (http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason1 and http://tiny.cc/BMG-Reason2), I focused on why expanded gambling is more appropriately described as economic cannibalism, and not as economic development, and on how a … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker Campaign Finance, Do as I say, Not as I do
Not too long ago Charlie Baker attacked Tim Cahill on donation records and called on him to implement transparency reforms. "For too long Beacon Hill has been a bastion of abuse and secretive business dealings. Our elected officials, like … [Read more...]
On Taming The Financial Beast, Or, Sausage Gets Made, You Get To Watch
Two cows are standing in a field. One says to the other, "What do you think about this mad cow disease?" "What do I care?" says the other, "I'm a helicopter." --From "Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar", Thomas Cathcart and Daniel … [Read more...]
Marston campaign releases first web ad “Jobless”
(Voice over) With over a half a million people in Massachusetts unemployed or underemployed, creating jobs is the number one issue for most voters. They are looking for leadership and where is the incumbent? Small business and … [Read more...]