I wanted to let the readers at BMG know that we updated our legislative scorecard at Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance. You may view the scorecard at www.MassFiscalScorecard.org. We list several votes in the House on welfare and votes in the … [Read more...]
Archives for November 22, 2013
Online voter registration and early voting passed the House
There hasn't been much media coverage on this so far (here and here) so in case you missed it, on Wednesday night just before the House recessed, it overwhelmingly passed online voter registration and early voting, 142 to 10. These … [Read more...]
50 years ago today…
You can't possibly have missed it, but just in case: 50 years ago today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. There's endless coverage of the event at just about every media outlet in existence. Here's one item I found … [Read more...]
Better health, better care, lower cost
At the first stop of my Innovating Massachusetts Tour, I outlined my vision for health care in Massachusetts and released my campaign's health care policy proposal. Health care costs accounted for 23 percent of the state budget in 2000 … [Read more...]
JFK & Our Environment: “We All Breathe the Same Air”
Some suggested reading on the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination: John F. Kennedy, the Cold War and Echoes of the Climate Change Challenge, Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media Rachel Carson and JFK, an Environmental Tag … [Read more...]