The skiing industry will be extinct in Massachusetts before a child born today turns 30, according to a new study on the effects of global warming: Of 103 ski resorts operating in the Northeast, less than half could be economically viable … [Read more...]
Archives for November 28, 2012
A little history of Article 44
The 44th Article of Amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution, ratified by the people in 1915, is the reason we can't have a graduated income tax in Massachusetts. It reads, in pertinent part: Full power and authority are hereby given … [Read more...]
Ricks on Fox: “Wing of the Republican Party”
Pulitzer Prize winning military journalist Tom Ricks called it like it is yesterday on Fox: the network is a wing of the Republican Party. Fox couldn't handle the truth, and cut him off. "Whattabunchawimps," Ricks wrote on his blog for … [Read more...]