Progressives are often nervous to talk about how global warming is impacting our weather. Climate science deniers have lots of theories that are hard to answer! My advice is to focus on what we know: Extremely warm ocean water is adding … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Where is the Boston Globe coverage of #NODAPL the Dakota Pipeline Protests? Anyway, join me in signing the #NODAPL Petition
There are thousands of people camped out, whole families, to protect their water and lands. It is a last stand by indigenous Americans. You would think, where the BBC has sent reporters across the ocean to cover this story as historic and … [Read more...]
labor & viruses
My first union card was with the Retail Clerks, now UFCW. I was inclined to being a union guy, a young smart-ass who never liked authority. My father came to organized labor later in life and became a bit of a hell-raiser who took over his … [Read more...]
I Miss the People’s Pledge
There's been much discussion here and elsewhere - and appropriately so - about the roughly $100,000 that Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) has dumped into Leland Cheung's effort to unseat Pat Jehlen in the state Senate. DFER's money … [Read more...]
What is Democrats for Education Reform really after?
Pretty much anything about charter schools - or education in any form, really - is absent from these pro-Cheung flyers (both of which arrived in my mailbox today) sent out by Democrats for Education Reform. Curiouser and curiouser... … [Read more...]
A Hot Time in the Norfolk-Plymouth-Bristol Senate Race
(note: unpaid Harrington volunteer here writing from the heart without any vetting by the campaign) The recent dust-up sparked by Sen Jamie Eldridge’s comments provides a useful frame of reference for the increasingly heated contest for … [Read more...]
Pat Jehlen debates Liam Kerr on money in politics
Today at noon at WGBH News reporter Mike Deehan's Facebook page. You can review the video any time. Pat Jehlen is a Massachusetts state Senator representing Cambridge, Medford, Somerville and Winchester. She has been endorsed by Blue … [Read more...]
$200,000 to buy a Mass. Senate seat for a former Virginia Republican?
If spending the avg annual Somerville income of 6 people in 10 days to win a state senate seat is wrong, I don't want to be right. -- leland4anything Politics in the Age of Trump comes to Massachusetts: a group run by Wall Street hedge … [Read more...]
More than six months later, Andy McDonald still has no legal representation in his guardianship case (with update)
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) UPDATE: A new attorney for Andy McDonald will be appointed this week (the week of September 5) to represent him in his guardianship case, according to Mark Larsen, the director of the Mental Health … [Read more...]
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