Photo taken by Deborah Sirotkin Butler Only 2% of the casualties inflicted by drones are "high level targets". 176 children have been killed. The entire Wazir Valley is being turned into "the Valley of the Shadow of Death by Drone." … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2012
Why the State House pay raises were a big mistake
Yes, I know that most State House employees who just got a pay raise haven't had one in years, and don't make all that much money to begin with. It's hard to begrudge someone making $35,000 a year a 3% pay raise when they haven't had one … [Read more...]
Whitey Bulger et al. Boston’s Old News Types on Wrong Side of History, New News Types Missing Opportunity
I've been reading with great interest The Trial of Whitey Bulger blog by retired Norfolk prosecutor Matt Connolly. His knowledge of the facts and his professional experience from working on aspects of the mess that hit Norfolk County and … [Read more...]
Next Boston City Council President Banking on Tom Menino Dropping Dead: Nice, Real Nice
Let me get this straight. If the mayor of Boston leaves office for any reason the city council president serves out his term. Currently Tom Menino is due for re-election next November if he wants to start another term in January. This … [Read more...]
New Media and The Next Election
We've all read about the importance of databases and cell phones, email and text messaging to the Obama and Warren campaigns of 2012. The success of VAN and Narwhal and campaign media outreach were vital. But the next election will come; we … [Read more...]
Green Monster: Car-Focused Spring Park Lets Red Sox Cash In
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...]
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...]
2012 Presidential Foreign Policy Debate Focus
From BMG's Where Our Collective Heads Are At Department, a map prepared by Pankaj Ghemawat, the Anselmo Rubiralta Professor of Global Strategy at IESE Business School (in Catalonia, Spain). Between 1983 and 2008, he was on the faculty at … [Read more...]
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