NY City- has a grading system for food establishements- besides the fines, the grade is displayed in the window. I recently reviewed the health inspection reports of a local market in Beacon Hill. The market failed 50% of their health … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2, 2011
“Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people”
Harsh words. And they're not mine. They belong to Joe Nocera, the respected business columnist for the NY Times. Here are some highlights from his column, which spares nobody (including President Obama). You know what they say: Never … [Read more...]
The Big Stupid: The markets hate it.
US STOCKS-Massive rout spells trouble for Wall Street | Reuters. Well, that's not surprising, seeing as the debt-ceiling hostage crisis "resolution" stuck another dagger into the chest of this fragile recovery. Short term, we need … [Read more...]
Nassour calls Romney’s position “the height of irresponsibility”
Oopsie. MA GOP chair Jenn Nassour dutifully sent out a blast directed at the 7/12 of our congressional delegation who voted against the debt ceiling bill (which, incidentally, is now law). Saith Nassour: Voting to send our country into … [Read more...]
The Headline President
The debt limit deal has finally made me understand Obama's motivation. For a while, I thought he was secretly a conservative, and didn't fight for liberal values because he didn't want them. But now I've realized that his actual motivation … [Read more...]
Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts–Not GOP
I'm thinking that people are getting tired of my seemingly tinfoil-hatted posts on Obama's war on Social Security, but here goes... Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts--Not GOP "We've got to educate the American people at … [Read more...]
The Big Stupid cost us $1.7 billion
Debt ceiling cost: $1.7 billion for Treasury bills - Aug. 1, 2011. The debt ceiling debacle has just cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.7 billion. That's the amount of additional interest the government had to pay investors Monday to … [Read more...]
DDS won’t give out information on reported death
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Late last month, we received a report that a healthy, 55-year-old man had been transferred from his home at the Templeton Developmental Center and subsequently died four days later at a community-based … [Read more...]
A poem for our times
OPPOSITION Grinding the diamond of the soul until refraction is perfect. cDeborah Sirotkin Butler … [Read more...]
MASSterList: Ceiling the deal – Delegation split over debt bill – DeNucci pays for cousin’s hire – Green line project pushed back
CEILING THE DEAL: With the countdown to debt default disaster still ticking down, Congress in finally at the end game (Globe) and sending a House-approved bill to the Senate. Several members of the House delegation voted against the … [Read more...]