A week ago, <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/12/23/will_foy_save_the_t/">Charles Chieppo had an op-ed in the Globe criticizing plans for MBTA rail expansion to Medford, Newburyport, … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2005
Health Care hilarity
Ezra Klein points us to this take on our crap American health care system from a Canadian; it's damn funny -- honest......which then links to this, which is also damn funny: "Panexa -- ask your doctor for a reason to take it." … [Read more...]
Illegal wiretap forum on Jan 4
Rep. Ed Markey has just annnounced an "Emergency Town Meeting on the Bush Administration's Program on Domestic Surveillance," otherwise known as "Bush's Illegal Spying program."The forum will be held In Lexington on Wednesday night, Jan. 4 … [Read more...]
A tale of two leaks
(Got a new verse, or an improvement on what's here? Drop it in the comments.)There once was an agent named Plamewho Karl Rove considered "fair game."So Bob Novak, our hero,showed integrity zeroby shamelessly outing her name.Once … [Read more...]
Simon Schama Looks Back at the Noughties
Columbia University historian, and Brit, Simon Schama has offered a provocative early history of the 00s for The Guardian. He writes in part: "But if, for the hell of it, we can imagine an oracular, though fully digitised, historian a … [Read more...]
Brain drain pain (with poll)
Well, since I was a little kid I wanted to live in Massachusetts. And a few years ago my dream came true. This state feels like home, and always has. But I can't expect everyone to feel like that; many other folks are taking off, and … [Read more...]
Why Alito? Here’s an interesting theory
Professor Sandy Levinson has a very interesting, and possibly quite accurate, post up on Balkinization as to why Bush chose to nominate Samuel Alito, rather than other equally qualified jurists who probably would have been easier to confirm … [Read more...]
Don’t forget to register!
If you want to be eligible to be a delegate at the Democratic convention in June, you MUST be registered as a Democrat in your city or town by the end of December. It's really easy - you just trot down to your city or town hall and … [Read more...]
Open Document Insert Foot V: MA CTO Quinn resigns
If you'll remember, MA Chief Technology Officer Peter Quinn was the <a href="http://bluemassgroup.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=945">driving force behind moving Massachusetts to an Open Document format standard, in which the documents … [Read more...]
Joe Klein Summarizes Health Care Alternatives
Time columnist Joe Klein provided a useful summary of Romney's health care proposal, and criticisms of it from left and right, in a recent issue.He wrote, "Here is how it would work. Massachusetts now spends about $1 billion a year to … [Read more...]
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