Wald: First visited a nuke in 1979 at CT Yankee. An alternative press reporter was indignant she didn't get to enter the reactor vessel. General interest reporters don't usually understand mechanical things or complex … [Read more...]
Archives for March 23, 2011
Taxes topic at Hub budget speakout
The speakout -- co-sponsored by ONE Massachusetts and a coalition of Boston organizations -- was one of many that are happening across the state in support of the Act to Invest in Our Communities. The bill would raise the state income tax … [Read more...]
Mitt Romney’s America
It always amuses me when Mitt Romney is touted as a good business man and he's the man who can turn the economy around. Do you know what his business was? Buying up struggling companies through leveraged buyouts and either breaking them up … [Read more...]
Effective Tax Incentive Programs
The following is Housing & Economic Development Secretary Greg Bialecki's response to Sen. Eldridge's 3/22 post: Governor Patrick and I agree with Senator Eldridge on all the important elements of an effective tax or other business … [Read more...]
New Hampshire GOP Legislators Try to Ban Collective Bargaining
NHDP Chair Ray Buckley, on Blue Hampshire. I was just told that the House Republicans just attached an amendment on the budget bill calling for the repeal of collective bargaining. http://www.bluehampshire.com/d... I imagine Governor Lynch … [Read more...]
The actual purpose of the Bush torture policies
Jessen's notes, prepared for an Air Force survival training course that he later "reverse engineered" when he helped design the Bush administration's torture program, however, go into far greater detail than the Armed Services Committee's … [Read more...]
AFL-CIO Straw Poll for 2012 Senate Race
This morning the AFL-CIO and its affiliated union presidents, took a straw poll for the upcoming senate race in MA. There were approximately 40 votes up for grabs...Capuano was clear front runner. Mike Capuano - 19 Next … [Read more...]
Outsourcing Caused State Deficits, Not The Public Unions
3. If California had held its share of manufacturing jobs from 2000-2007, its state budget would be in balance. Unfortunately there are those who still adhere and believe the conservative free trade mantra is good for everyone. The … [Read more...]
Scott Brown adopts funding mechanism that Richard Tisei called a “gaping loophole”
An excellent catch by David Bernstein: Senator Scott Brown has just opened a federal political action committee (PAC), called the Brown Victory Committee, to collect large-dollar contributions -- using the exact same approach that … [Read more...]
MASSterList: Census figures (real ones) show shifts, etc.
Census figures (real ones) show shifts - What do numbers mean for districts? - BCEC talk heats up - Parents protest Patrick cuts After Secretary of State William Galvin's slip up (AP) releasing incorrect census data earlier in the … [Read more...]