The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center has released their 2012 Massachusetts Clean Industry Report (http://www.masscec.com/index.cfm/cdid/13913/pid/11150) There are 4,995 clean energy firms and 71,523 clean energy jobs in the … [Read more...]
Archives for August 29, 2012
The Efficiency of the Private Sector
It's an article of unsubstantiated faith with people like Paul Ryan that the private sector does everything better. In a wonderful article outlining his disillusionment with Paul Ryan, William Saletan of Slate lays it out: Google paid … [Read more...]
This should be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Still thinking about canvassing this past weekend, which causes one to pare down one's political pitch to the basics, because you don't have much time to express yourself -- out of courtesy for the listener. You know, we gotta keep this … [Read more...]
When does ‘I had no active role’ really mean “… making decisions involving the operation or management of the activity, performing services for the activity, and hiring and discharging employees.”?
Answer - when it affects your taxes. But according to his 2010 tax return, when the Internal Revenue Service comes calling in April, Romney has a different answer: The presumptive GOP nominee reaps lucrative tax breaks for "active" … [Read more...]
Pretty good up-summing of Mitt Romney’s run for president: “a massive all-in bet on the rank incompetence of the American press corps.”
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sums things up pretty well. Last May, in a much-touted speech in Iowa, Romney used language that was literally inflammatory to describe America's federal borrowing. "A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Warren takes on “We Built It”
You might have missed this - I almost did, since it rolled into my inbox late last night. But you know how Republicans are bizarrely building their entire convention around an out-of-context quote from a somewhat garbled line in a speech … [Read more...]
Why Warren is losing
A while ago, the editor here posited four reasons why Elizabeth Warren was now 5 pts behind Scott Brown. I can answer that question definitively: She is not in any way likable. She never smiles, she is always pointing and lecturing. … [Read more...]