The deliberate ignorance and rationalization of the negative impacts by legislative leadership who refused to calculate or even attempt to calculate costs, is the evidence of elected officials perverted by the false promises and gimmicks of … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2, 2010
Solar Energy Program
Hi all, Hope all is well. Just like to share a video with you regarding the Solar Energy Program I've initiated in Attleboro, MA. http://bit.ly/bBeciR The video, made by the local news, is an absolute representation of the future of this … [Read more...]
Excuse Me Mr. Keating?
Why didn't you answer my questions? I meant them sincerely. Let me repeat them: 1. Do you own two homes in your Congressional District? 2. How much government income would you derive from your pension and Congressional salary per … [Read more...]
Virginia pulls an “Arizona”… “Where are your papers?”
Huffington Post reports Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, whose lawsuit against health care reform moved forward Monday, has ruled that his state's law enforcement officials can ask to check the immigration status of anyone they … [Read more...]
Dear Gov. Patrick – Remember the Windbreaker
Dear Governor Patrick - Remember when you first arrived at Milton Academy for high school? Your family's life of poverty in Chicago was so far removed from that upper-class world that you didn't realize that the school's suggestion … [Read more...]
Massachusetts legislature approves historic changes to criminal record laws
"When you're trying to support your family, get your life on track, and be a role model, you can only have the door slammed in your face so many times," Steve O'Neil, Executive Director of Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community … [Read more...]
DREAM Now Letters: Tania Unzueta
For years we lived in a small basement, then a small apartment. When we moved here, my dad had been offered a job with the promise of regularizing his status through employer sponsorship, 245-i. Our family was going through that process … [Read more...]
Fear Factor: Management Theory and American Education
From a policy point of view, education should reconsider Deming's 14 Key Principles of Management. This view puts a premium on steady, continuous improvement, not radical, drastic transformation. It regards employees, not as cogs in a … [Read more...]
EXTRA! WE WILL HAVE CASINOS! (Probably)
This is great. Evidently the final casino bill leaves some wiggle room for the newly created gambling commission to deny slot licenses to the two tracks. Fucking Brilliant!! Deval signs the bill. His administration promulgates regulations … [Read more...]
Comment of the day: some reality-based numbers on casinos
With the big news of the last few days being what is going to happen with the expanded gambling legislation currently sitting on the Governor's desk, I thought MiddleboroReview's excellent comment digging up some actual numbers - rather … [Read more...]