Remember how the otherwise-green-conscious Red Sox moved to a new spring training facility called JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, FL that virtually forces you to drive there? Turns out there's plenty of green motivation behind the lack of … [Read more...]
Archives for November 26, 2012
Congressman Markey’s remarks on climate change and Superstorm Sandy, 11/25/2012
My daughter and I attended Congressman Markey's hearing yesterday, and I videotaped his opening remarks. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: For me, the most exciting proposal was the elimination of coal fired … [Read more...]
E-Z Money for Friends of Charter Schools
It turns out that Diana Lam, currently head of the Conservatory Lab Charter School, and lately of San Antonio (which paid her $800,000 to leave) and New York City (where she was forced out of her job as Deputy School Chancellor in a … [Read more...]
New article: Do contested primaries help or hurt candidates for governor in Massachusetts?
I thought the BMG community might be interested in a new article I just posted on my Mass. Numbers blog: http://massnumbers.blogspot.com/2012/11/do-contested-primaries-help-or-hurt.html Do contested primaries help or hurt candidates … [Read more...]