Dozens of governors, including Charlie Baker, are getting letters from the business community today in a show of support for President Obama's limits on carbon pollution from power plants: In an unprecedented show of business support for … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2015
ICYMI: Hillary’s excellent climate video
Well how about this: This is a very good, simple, canny and aggressive framing of the issue. I remain shocked that more climate people and even the President seem reluctant to take the polemical offensive, rather than simply the … [Read more...]
The Clinton Campaign Illustrates the Media’s Crisis
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. --Walter Lippman Mainstream journalism is in crisis. The old … [Read more...]
The Bernie Sanders Kickoff Video Rally Was An Overwhelming Success
Speaking from an apartment of one of the Kickoff House Parties Sen Bernie Sanders addressed more than 100,000 attendees at 3500 different venues in all fifty states. I hosted an event on Nantucket as an out-islander, but the house held as … [Read more...]
Governor’s MBTA panel provided virtually no support for its recommendation to restrict the Pacheco Law
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Governor's Special Panel to Review the MBTA earlier this year made some reasonable proposals to better manage the MBTA. But the Panel report's recommendation to remove the MBTA from the Pacheco … [Read more...]
It’s not the 1%….it’s even worse than that.
Who is in control of the United States of America? Who makes the decisions to go to war, to provide (or deny) health care, create tax loopholes, and create budgets? It’s not the 1%. If it was the 1%, that would be a figure that we all … [Read more...]
The Failed Olympics Bid: The Boston Business Journal Polls the PR Pros
All you Olympics fans can stop the self-pity now. The BBJ asked the PR experts. Below are a sample of their responses: And what they had to say about it all should help ease the fear of those here who might feel that the city's overall … [Read more...]
Here’s what a real infrastructure vision looks like
In the wake of the USOC pulling out of the Boston 2024 Olympic bid, we are already seeing a narrative form that Boston likes things small, is too provincial to think globally, and is scared of wide scale city changing projects. I would … [Read more...]
The death of Boston 2024: Shirley Leung gets it right, and wrong
There's an enormous amount of commentary regarding the decision to withdraw Boston's bid to host the 2024 Olympics. I'll leave it to you, diligent reader, to dig out your favorite bits and post them here as the day wears on. I'm going … [Read more...]
Tune In To Bernie Sanders Kickoff July 29th 7:30pm EDT
Be part of an amazing organizational effort. As of right now there are 3,146 meeting places with 81,677 RSVPs and counting for the Senator Bernie Sanders Kickoff event. It is an effort to bring in working volunteers from every state in … [Read more...]
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