“Every method that human ingenuity can conceive of is being used to undermine, dilute and circumvent the rights of minority voters to enjoy the franchise.” Whitney Houston dies. Fox News posts the story and a torrent of racist … [Read more...]
Archives for February 13, 2012
Rick Santorum leading in national polls? Really?
I know this is the year where every GOP candidate gets a turn. Bachman, Perry, Cain, Paul, Gingrich. But Santorum? The national picture: A new Pew Research Center poll found Santorum and Romney neck-and-neck, with Santorum winning … [Read more...]
How about giving everyone $20 a month?
That is what birth control pills seem to cost, over the counter. So how about let's just give everyone $20 a month credit at the pharmacy. If people want to spend it on something other than BC, they should be allowed to do that, to cash it … [Read more...]
Sneak attack seeks to resurrect the Keystone XL Pipeline – the time to push back is NOW!!
Just imagine for a moment what an ecologically dirty project like Keystone would look like from out there in space. Not who stands to make money, but the planet itself. Lobbyists can and DO work full time and overtime to … [Read more...]
Local party committees: the Massachusetts version of Super PACs?
As you know, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision led to the creation of "Super PACs," which are political committees to which individuals may contribute without limit, and which may in turn spend unlimited amounts of money on any … [Read more...]
DDS vendor executives not sharing the pain of their workers
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Direct-care workers in the state's contracted human services system have seen their wages stagnate in recent years, but the executives who run the largely nonprofit contractor agencies that employ those … [Read more...]
Proposed MBTA Service Cuts/Fare Increase — Passing the Buck for Mitigation
Imagine if a university found to have violated Title IX and ordered to strengthen its women's athletics program passed the cost of required improvements in women's programming on to the female students who enrolled in them. Imagine if a … [Read more...]