This week the 2010 Uniform Crime Report has been released. More state breakdowns to be released, but the first state specific statistic released was for cities with 100,000 and over in population, Massachusetts had reduced violent crime by … [Read more...]
Archives for May 24, 2011
Devastated on Detroit
Apropos of David's post below ... Tough, true new video from the DNC: Prominently featured is MItt Romney's 2008 Op-Ed in the New York Times, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt." Hmmm : IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout … [Read more...]
NY-26: HUGE win for Democrats! Hochul beats Corwin easily.
It's hard to overstate how big a deal this is. This is the district that produced Jack Kemp, for God's sake. It's been reliably Republican for years, and everybody figured that Jane Corwin would win without breaking a sweat. But major … [Read more...]
Boycott Tennessee-based businesses?
Monday night, Tennessee Governor Haslam (R) signed an anti-gay bill the Tennessee Equality Project calls the "special access to discriminate" law. http://gay.americablog.com/2011/05/tn-chamber-changes-position-now-opposed.html Replicating … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren, “They’re afraid of you.”
During a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee today, Chairman Patrick McHenry (R, NC-10) ended the hearing by calling Elizabeth Warren a liar. Warren had stated that the Chairman's staff and her, after a … [Read more...]
Obamacare Works, or Can We Say ACA Now?
How long will it be before the tea partiers and the party that loves them stop referring to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as Obamacare? My guess is when the polls start telling them how popular the program is and how well it is … [Read more...]
Guess what? The auto industry bailout worked.
The next time someone moans and groans about how awful "bailouts" are, remember that at least one of them saved thousands of American jobs and won't cost taxpayers a dime. Chrysler just paid back all its loans way ahead of schedule. … [Read more...]
“Expired-Food Guy” Connolly Fights for Another Go
Boston At-Large City Councilor John Connolly was kind of surprised that his old-frozen-foods-in-schools investigation made such a splash. Regardless, he chairs the body's education committee and shows an astonishing passion for public … [Read more...]
Setting the record straight about Fernald and COFAR
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) If any more evidence was needed that the human services providers and the Patrick administration are attempting to tarnish the Fernald Developmental Center's families in order to discredit the highly … [Read more...]
MASSterList: Former state IT chief testifies about Cognos software at DiMasi trial – NYT on the other Warren – UMass fees may jump and Amherst may lose Chancellor
SOFTWARE BUGS: The state's former IT chief testified yesterday that she wound not have recommended the software deal at the heart of the DiMasi corruption case without the former Speaker's insistence (Globe). WBUR talks to Massachusetts … [Read more...]