Private health insurance is a product and private health insurance companies must make a profit for shareholders. That's a problem because there is no way to control costs. I champion Governor Patrick's efforts to control rising … [Read more...]
Archives for July 19, 2010
U.S. Secret Police: Public and Private
WaPo offers up a massive two-year investigation into the hidden world of secret government security agencies and the private companies they employ: These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that … [Read more...]
JIM McKENNA FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL!
Here he is! http://www.telegram.com/articl... Go back to bed. He can't possibly win. Senator Coakley proved that. … [Read more...]
HR4213 extending unemployment (and more) up for vote 7/20/10 in the Senate
HR4213 Bill and history is available online at Open Congress. If you support reviving extended unemployment benefits to 11/30/10, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202 224 3121 and tell Senator Brown, Senator Kerry and any other Senator you … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker’s campaign manager reveals strategy on the radio: keep saying untrue stuff
Charlie Baker's campaign manager, Tim O'Brien, was on the Callie Crossley show on WGBH radio this afternoon. He got to say whatever he wanted pretty much without challenge or contradiction, so it was an interesting snapshot of the … [Read more...]
DREAM Now Letters: Mohammad Abdollahi
On May 17, according to the New York Times, I become one of the first undocumented students, along with two others, to "have directly risked deportation in an effort to prompt Congress to take up [the DREAM Act]." Risking deportation … [Read more...]
Crunch time for sentencing reform
Homeward bound. There are well over 2,000 men and women serving mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses in Massachusetts. Certainly some of them deserve to be in prison, and for lengthy sentences. But many others received … [Read more...]
With friends like these …
Over at RMG, Barbara Anderson of Citizens for Limited Taxation had some of her harshest words yet for Scott Brown and his vote on Wall Street reform. that one very foolish newbie senator thought he could be "independent" while telling his … [Read more...]
Your Candidate, Paid for by Corporate America
Americans are about to experience their first election under new the campaign finance regime outlined in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, Citizens United v. FEC. The decision basically said that corporations have the same right to … [Read more...]
Get well soon, John!
State Democratic party chair, friend of BMG, and all around good guy John Walsh suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend. Walsh underwent a series of tests over the weekend and is resting comfortably today and doing fine, Stacey … [Read more...]