Due to the graphic facts and sheer number of victims, this post is rated XXX by the DNC and RNC. Viewer discretion is advised for single issue or low information voters. Ed Markey's inconvenient truth is: 175,706 manufacturing jobs lost … [Read more...]
Archives for February 6, 2013
Bucking the Status Quo
The education achievement gap between whites/asians and african-american/latinos; between the rich and the poor; between urban and suburban students needs to be addressed properly in this country. Whichever way one labels the gap one thing … [Read more...]
The ‘Real Lives’ bill hasn’t gotten any more real
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Last year, we raised a number of questions and concerns about the "Real Lives" bill, which its supporters claim would give people with intellectual disabilities more choice in the services they … [Read more...]
Dan Winslow: A+ from Massachusetts NRA
It's hard for putative Republican Senate candidate Rep. Dan Winslow to run for the "sensible center," as he put it today, when he advocates policies that resulted in the massacre of 20 first graders and six of their teachers 80 miles south … [Read more...]
Recent MA Democratic History
I'd like recommendations for the best essay or book on the recent history of Democratic politics in Massachusetts. I ask because, though I've been here for ages, I'm Not From Here. Some of the fractures and frictions that the new Senate … [Read more...]