If you're not reading everything Ezra Klein writes about health care, heck, you just ain't livin'. He sums up Maryland's new health care assessment on Wal-Mart as bad health care policy, but good health care politics:Iâm all for watching … [Read more...]
Specter will vote “yes” on Alito
Senate Judiciary Committee chair Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has just announced that he will vote "yes" on Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. Specter, as one of the few GOP Senators who is avowedly pro-choice, is a particularly … [Read more...]
My question for Judge Alito – and why I’d vote “no” unless he answered it
I've said several times that the most important issue in the Alito confirmation is executive power, and I continue to think that. Judge Alito has been cagey on his views of all of the issues raised in the hearings, and executive power … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick announces plan to help municipalities
Deval Patrick's campaign has announced its latest position paper, this one on the financial problems facing cities and towns. Patrick has been talking a lot about the problems facing cities and towns, and in so doing he has garnered … [Read more...]
Middlesex DA: Barrios loses his campaign manager
Bay Windows reports that Stu Rosenberg, Jarrett Barrios's campaign manager for his Middlesex District Attorney campaign, is leaving to take a job with the Human Rights Campaign. This is surely an inconvenience for Barrios, but it's … [Read more...]
Lehigh gets it right on Reilly and Healey
Scot Lehigh's Globe column this morning is exactly right about the Reilly/Conte kerfuffle. His bottom line: Reilly did a dumb thing that raised questions about his penchant for helping out his friends but didn't impede any criminal … [Read more...]
Maryland passes Wal-Mart health care assessment
Well, they did it: Maryland passed an requirement that employers with more than 10,000 employees pay at least 8% of their payroll on health care, or pay into the state's fund. This apparently affects Wal-Mart, and only Wal-Mart.So Maryland … [Read more...]
David on NECN again – early bird edition!
I will be on NECN's Good Morning Live show tomorrow (Friday) morning at - gasp - 7:45 a.m. for more on the Alito hearings.Also, you might hear some clips of an interview with me on WBZ radio's morning news reports (1030 AM).Update: You can … [Read more...]