Charlie Baker's little flirtation with the police unions on traffic details and the Quinn bill is certainly not politically courageous; it is certainly not fiscally "conservative"; and it is certainly inconsistent with his heretofore … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2010
Tax Credit Transparency – Good Day For Progressives & Taxpayers, Not So Good For Republicans
I am proud that Speaker DeLeo embraced not only the tax credit transparency proposal, but also the budget website legislation. And the Governor deserves credit for initiating the dialogue on tax credit transparency, which he filed in … [Read more...]
US awards $106 million for energy research; MA gets over 20% of it
Ginkgo BioWorks (Boston, MA) Electron Source - Electric Current (via Formate): The project will engineer a well-studied bacterium, E. coli, to harness electric current to convert carbon dioxide and water into isooctane, an important … [Read more...]
Imperial alert: I’ll be at Columbia Journalism School Conference Tomorrow
A conference on the Journalism of Opinion Date and time: Friday 30 April, 1:00 pm- 6:00 p.m. Location: Columbia University Journalism School., Lecture Hall, 3rd floor Structure: Keynote, 2 Panels, Reception A Friends of the Library event … [Read more...]
House backs budget transparency, including tax credits
House Votes for Increased Budget Openness (BOSTON) - House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo yesterday joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in passing budget amendments aimed at increasing the openness and accessibility … [Read more...]
Cahill: Do the right thing, unless it’s more expensive
Tim Cahill acknowledges that building clean energy is good: "I don't think it's the real solution," he said. "It will make us feel good about ourselves, just like covering every citizen in Massachusetts with health care made us feel good. … [Read more...]
Another candidate for Delahunt’s seat emerges
Alan Magnus expected to announce run for Bill Delahunt's seat. Claims to be naked "all the time" and drive a "jalopy." … [Read more...]
Help Turn Scott Brown’s State Senate Seat Blue
Last week, Young Democrats of Massachusetts announced their endorsement of and plans for supporting Dr. Peter Smulowitz's Special Election for State Senate. This week, I wanted to share the specifics of what we'll be doing, … [Read more...]
A Tale of Two Blogospheres
Interesting research about how the left and the right use blogs differently, from the Berkman Center at Harvard: In this paper, we revisit [previous] findings by comparing the practices of discursive production and participation among top … [Read more...]
Looks Like Insurance Salesman, John from Abington is no better than Tim from Quincy
On March 29th the following was posted on BMG about Cahill's fundraising emails to State House folks. The well written and highly effective post is at: http://bluemassgroup.com/s... This is the extraordinarily well written post: Apparently … [Read more...]
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