This is frustrating as anything. Where are the big spenders? Where are those who say that we must spend MORE, either for economic reasons to stimulate recovery, or for moral reasons that bad times are exactly when you must … [Read more...]
Archives for April 8, 2011
Suzanne Bump has it right!
Suzanne Bump, the new Auditor has it right in deciding to audit the so-called "tax expenditure budget" The auditor's office carried out an initial review of 91 of the 203 programs in the tax expenditures budget that have significant … [Read more...]
House Speaker John Boehner Puts His Wallet First
Stocks: Defense contractors (mostly compared with list of 100 largest defense contractors at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... but looked a few up individually): AMGen $15,000-50,000 Cisco $15,000-50,000 Computer Sciences Corporation … [Read more...]
Make sure every vote is counted in 2012
Massachusetts uses paper ballots that are counted by voting machines with optical scanners. These ballots can be hand counted to make sure the machines are counting your vote accurately. It's a great system... except in … [Read more...]
Weekly Joke Revue: “Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq to receive essential services during shutdown”
WI Republican Judge’s Miraculous Post-Election Victory
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine, associate editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, and co-founder of this media advocacy group Free Press, gives the clearest summary I have yet seen of the … [Read more...]
Worcester rallies for revenue
More than 100 Worcester residents turned out Monday for a community speakout in support of the Act to Invest in Our Communities Monday and heard testimony about the devastating cuts that have forced the city to lay off nearly a third of its … [Read more...]
Today’s MASSterList
SHUTDOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY: Unless President Obama and GOP leaders in Congress reach an eleventh hour deal, it looks like the federal government will shut down ( Politico). Federal employees in Mass. prepare for that outcome (Globe). The … [Read more...]
Election Upset: David Prosser Wins After Gaining 7,500 Votes
So instead of a recount, we can now look forward to an investigation. UPDATE: 9:05 p.m. -- Statement from the Kloppenburg campaign manager Melissa Mulliken: Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign deserve a full … [Read more...]