Ever wonder how the legislature can "get away with" making almost all its decisions behind closed doors, public excluded, no record made or published - check this out: Section 18Definitions applicable to Secs. 18 to … [Read more...]
Archives for April 12, 2012
Sample/Specimen Ballot posted outside polling places for voters.
a) The Sample/Specimen Ballot posted outside the polling place for voters. Why is the Elections Division http://mass.gov/sec of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts so difficult to get the Sample/Specimen ballot poster from … [Read more...]
Getting in your own Fenway…
You have probably all heard them. Scott Brown has money to blow and so he spends it on the relatively inexpensive radio ads that make him sound like a regular guy. I mean the truck to pull his daughter's horse and the $600 barn coat just … [Read more...]
Legalize it- California is paying $50,000 per year per inmate and only $9,000 per year per students
George Will points out in the Washington Post that : with both alcohol and illicit drugs, about 20 percent of users consume 80 percent of the products. "Reducing consumption by the 80 percent of casual users will not substantially reduce … [Read more...]
Use Your Voice: Netroots Nation 2012
I grew up in a town where change was not on the agenda so it was not surprising that when 2008 came around, the presidential election caused quite a heated debate. I was two months too young to vote that November, but I was so empowered by … [Read more...]
Scott Brown Must Decide: Romney v. Buffett
[Cross-posted from the ProgressMass blog. Like ProgressMass on Facebook and follow on Twitter.] Our Republican junior Senator, Scott Brown, has a very simple decision before him: raise taxes on lower-income Americans and give the … [Read more...]