Hello Blue Mass Group friends, For those who don’t know me, my name is Steve May, I’m from Hull, and I am a candidate for State Senate in the Plymouth and Norfolk district running to represent Weymouth, Hingham, Hull, Cohasset, Scituate, … [Read more...]
Archives for October 4, 2011
Speaks for itself
Spare, eloquent testimony from the 99 percent
on Tumblr. … [Read more...]
Live-blogging the UMass-Lowell MA-Sen debate [updated with video]
UPDATE: Here is the video of the debate: Greetings from Lowell! Remember that you can watch a live-stream of the debate at this link. Because a live stream is available, I'm not going to do a play-by-play. Rather, it will be more … [Read more...]
The Fading of a Great White Hope
Well there you have it, Republican Governor Chris Christie has decided not to run for president in 2012. This will certainly be a let down for many in the G.O.P. but in reality it probably doesn’t matter all that much anyway. For one thing, … [Read more...]
Army of Former DC Staffers Lobby for Tax Holiday
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. --Kenneth Grahame While we're on the subject of revolving doors, Bloomberg has an article about the push … [Read more...]
Too Little, Too, Nate
An article in the Harvard Crimson quotes from a letter to Harvard President Drew Faust from Nate Little, Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, requesting that Harvard stop paying Elizabeth Warren. Little writes: For Harvard … [Read more...]
Check in here for the MA-Sen debate tonight!
The first joint appearance of all the Democratic MA-Sen candidates is tonight at UMass Lowell, where they will debate for 75 minutes starting at 7 pm. I'll be there to live-blog, and you can watch a live-stream of the proceedings at this … [Read more...]
Christie is out. Who will rescue the GOP from its nightmare of having to nominate Romney?
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has scheduled a 1 pm press conference, and multiple sources are confirming that he has made a final decision not to run for president in 2012. Meawhile, a new national poll shows that Rick Perry's … [Read more...]
Arab Spring a model for Occupy Boston?
Recently, a summit of Arab Bloggers met, where bloggers like "us" at BMG from a whole slew of countries got together, sharing what worked, what didn't work, and the impact of their citizen journalism in bringing democracy to their … [Read more...]