This is totally off topic for BMG, but since I just mentioned NPR on a different post, I feel obliged to note that NPR star Ari Shapiro, who is also a great singer, is live-hosting at 10pm tonight the mind-blowing annual New Year's … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2015
Hope/Change Person of the Year
Maura Healey. For, among other things, this. (No I'm not trying to get her to run for Governor. Too soon to discuss, in my view.) Other people I considered: our new Congresspeople, Seth Moulton and Katherine Clark. Both have led on … [Read more...]
My brother, Howard
I want the phone to ring and hear, "Hey, what are you doing", one more time. My brother Peter was saying, he wanted one more game, that one more time at Fenway or the Garden. There are a lot of one mores we all will carry. Indulge my … [Read more...]
CA Geyser Shows Why Fracked Gas Is a Climate Killer
A massive gas well leak in California northwest of Los Angeles has sickened dozens, forced the relocation of thousands of residents and two schools, and caused untold damage to our climate. As Massachusetts lawmakers consider subsidizing … [Read more...]
My take on the “Donald” phenomenon
Many have tried to put a chink in Mr. Trump's armor by name calling, or denigrating his supporters. For better or worse they are still our fellow citizens. How to live with them? Of course I'm assuming that the overwhelming majority on … [Read more...]
RIP howardjp, we have lost another BMGer
We have lost another BMGer. Howard Leibowitz passed away suddenly on Sunday. He blogged here as howardjp. The Globe tells the story and the Herald as well. The obituary is here. Peter Dreier's remembrance on Huffington Post is quite … [Read more...]
Health Care Debate tactics that you can use this holiday social season.
I'll argue that most of ones health is predetermined by genetics and/or ones family environment . Along the same lines, much of ones wealth is predetermined by ones birth. That said, if one does not believe in universal single payer health … [Read more...]
2016 Predictions
The unseasonable warmth may be about to make an exit from Massachusetts, and the French Toast Alert is crawling out of its summer hibernation for the first time this season. It must be time for the beloved BMG prognosticators to dust off … [Read more...]
Getting it wrong on taxis and Uber. Again.
Is the Globe hurting for op-ed material? Because Christmas Day's Globe ran an op-ed by former Cambridge mayor and state senator Anthony Galluccio ("a member of the Cambridge Taxi Industry Group," per the Globe) that not only repeated a … [Read more...]
Will the Courts and access to justice remain standing, hat in hand, like Oliver in the orphanage to say, “Please Sir, can I have more?”
This is a BIG issue with almost no constituency. No one thinks about, supports, or cares about the Courts - until they need to go to court. Cambridge District Court has been in an inaccessible area in Medford for seven years - denying … [Read more...]
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