Let's bring Governor Patrick's, Speaker DeLeo's and Senate President Murray's predatory gambling bill out from behind the closed-doors of the "power brokers" on Beacon Hill, where a horrific precedent has been staged, out into the light of … [Read more...]
Archives for August 29, 2011
Unemployment in Perspective
In The Wall Street Journal, David Wessel puts the number of unemployed in perspective: There are more unemployed people in the U.S. than there are people in the state of Illinois, the fifth largest state. In fact there, there are more … [Read more...]
Spare Change News editorial: Senators, You’re No Ted Kennedy
Senators, You're No Ted Kennedy When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed John Kerry to the so-called “super committee” charged with cutting more than $1 trillion from the federal deficit over 10 years, we couldn’t help but wonder … [Read more...]
How to be a grown-up, and how not to
Alan Khazei has been in the news a lot lately. Some of it, of course, had to do with Eric Fehrnstrom's ill-fated CrazyKhazei Twitter account - more on that in a sec. But some of it was less flattering: a revelation that Khazei had hired … [Read more...]
Kerrigan’s Stunning Upset – Results of MaSen Madness Round One
The results of the first round of MaSen madness are in. From a social media perspective, you have to see Steve Kerrigan's win over Marty Meehan as significant. The mention on BMG and a couple of plugs on facebook made him an upset … [Read more...]