As has been previously noted here at BMG, there is an election for Mayor of Medford next month. The office has been occupied by Michael McGlynn for two decades, but he's retiring, so it's a wide-open contest between former Medford City … [Read more...]
Archives for October 8, 2015
Notes on How People Think About Climate Change
I attended two climate change lectures recently. One lecture was titled "Clean and Cheap: How Americans Think About Energy in an Age of Global Warming" on 9/17/15 at MIT with David Konisky, Indiana University and the other was "Disruptive … [Read more...]
McCARTHY DROPS OUT OF SPEAKERS RACE…
WOW ! House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy just said he is not the right man to be the face of the Republican Party. He announced at the Conference meeting that he didn't believe he could get 218 votes needed when the vote is taken on … [Read more...]
How Much Does The Press Care About Race and Policing?
On October 7, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature held a marathon hearing on "Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation". To be fair, Boston.com and the Boston Herald both reproduced … [Read more...]
A viable approach to gun control
Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, D-NY, introduced an approach to gun control that works — mandatory liability insurance (emphasis mine): House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney (N.Y.) has introduced a bill that would require gun owners to … [Read more...]