Here in the Boston area we sit in the geographic center of two aging nuclear plants and there's a third just over the border in Western Mass. The Pilgrim Nuclear plant and VT Yankee have the same General Electric Mark 1 reactor as the … [Read more...]
Archives for March 24, 2011
Spoiling the wingnut narrative: Fidelity’s job action had nothing to do with MA’s business climate
If you listen to our friends on the other side of the aisle, you'd think that (a) Massachusetts is a terrible place to do business, and (b) Fidelity's decision to move 1,100 jobs from Marlborough to Rhode Island is because of (a). We … [Read more...]
Go Michele!
She's gonna do it. She's really gonna do it. CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an … [Read more...]
Scott Brown’s Fantasy Land
Generally, he’s received no coverage at all of his votes selling out women and the middle class, while the press falls all over itself sending out his spin of himself as a “moderate” charting his own course. Yesterday we … [Read more...]
Today’s MASSterList
<img src="http://statehousenews.com/public/massterlist/banner600.png" width=400 height=60> With Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray in Washington D.C. for the National Lieutenant Governors Association meetings, … [Read more...]
Health Reform Anniversary
Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of the signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Many Republican lawmakers used the anniversary to attack the law. But I like to give credit where credit is due, to me, … [Read more...]
Mass about to lose leadership status
Our Commonwealth has always been in the vanguard when it comes to improving the lot of Americans, for example: - The Revolution started here - First to abolish slavery, and declare blacks and whites equal, and became the hub of the … [Read more...]