This campaign is gaining some great momentum. I still need the help of progressive people like everyone here, in the BMG community. I am a consistant friend of the working person and will always side with working families, especially in … [Read more...]
Archives for July 7, 2010
Support your Values – Support Jill Stein
We are so lucky to have Jill Stein speaking out and supporting our values. While I will remain a registered Democrat, I have decide to support Jill Stein for Governor of Massachusetts. I am thrilled with her knowledge of what's wrong … [Read more...]
House repeals pharma gift ban
Insane. And DeLeo's taking credit for it, rather than hang his head in shame that it was yoked to an unrelated bill. Press release:In an effort to bring more convention activity to the state while stimulating the restaurant and … [Read more...]
“Massachusetts employers report that current business conditions are now mildly favorable”
More good news for the MA economy (which is also coincidentally good news for Deval Patrick and bad news for Charlie Baker): The Associated Industries of Massachusetts Business Confidence Index rose 2.2 points in June to 53.7, the business … [Read more...]
Corporate Welfare Watch: New Proposed Corporate Tax Breaks
From the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center: Facts At a Glance: New Corporate Tax Breaks Proposed in Economic Development Legislation July 6, 2010 Economic development legislation under consideration in the House contains proposals for … [Read more...]
Vacancy on the Boston City Council – Who’s Next
I first met Matt O'Malley when he was running for Boston City Council citywide in 2003 and thought that he stood out as an exceptional candidate then. Later, when I heard that he was running Sherriff Andrea Cabral's campaign in 2004, I … [Read more...]
Immigration Returns? What do you think?
President Obama made a major speech on the need for immigration reform a couple of days before the 4th of July that got a pretty good review from Paul Waldman in the Prospect. He it called Immigration Returns because it put us in the way … [Read more...]
Our circular state policy game
The foundations warned that we mustn't falter in this reform effort, according to the Globe, because that would be a sign of "bureaucratic inertia, union resistance, or political malaise."It's difficult to question a … [Read more...]
More Nails in the Coffins of the Climate Change Deniers
As if we needed any more evidence demonstrating that anthropogenic climate change is real, that it is occurring right now, and that it poses a major threat to the planet's environment, we now have it -- in spades. Let;s begin … [Read more...]
Today’s Scott Browned-up
Scott Brown has long had a talent for drawing attention to himself, as we've discussed previously. And today is no exception, with both a front-page Globe story and an op-ed devoted to his doings. Herewith, today's Browned-up. … [Read more...]