A 2005 report by the Congressional Committee on Government Reform stated that government auditors had found that "questioned and unsupported" costs by Halliburton alone exceeded $1.4 billion under just two Iraq reconstruction … [Read more...]
McCain’s three big campaign mistakes
Number one: McCain has actually based his campaign on support of an unpopular war. Why he chose to support an incredibly unpopular president and his continuing blunder in Iraq has always been beyond me. McCain likes to cite the … [Read more...]
Denial of visits to elderly woman appears to violate DMR regulations
The group home's closed-door policy appears to be a direct violation of state regulations governing care of persons with mental retardation. Those regulations state that clients of the Department of Mental Retardation … [Read more...]
Surprise: Palin not helping McCain among women
We keep hearing about how the Palin pick has energized and inspired women voters. But the NYT/CBS poll says that Obama actually picked up more support among women than McCain did since before the Democratic convention. According … [Read more...]
The Patrick administration’s community care plan doesn’t connect the dots
But let's get back to the overall skimpiness of the plan. It has broad goals, but in key respects, it doesn't say how those goals will be achieved. It's first two goals, for instance, are 1) Help … [Read more...]
No answers from the gov to our questions at two Town Hall meetings
About a week before I submitted my question, Grace Lerman, a member of The Fernald League, submitted her own question following a Town Hall meeting in Amesbury, asking how the commonwealth would be able to meet the future needs of persons … [Read more...]
The Fight For Fernald Will Go On
First, the Fernald families will continue to offer their postage-stamp compromise to scale back Fernald and continue its current services to its current residents on a reduced campus footprint. We have never … [Read more...]
Fernald and the ‘hollow state’
Both the Waltham Daily News Tribune and The Worcester Telegram have reported that workers at five of the six remaining state facilities for the mentally retarded in Massachusetts, including Fernald, have been offered $5,000 bonuses to take … [Read more...]
How not to undertake a public project
In August 2004, the U.S. Agency for International Development issued a job order to Bechtel National, Inc. to construct the 50-bed pediatric facility in the city of Basrah. The construction of the hospital was to be part of the overall … [Read more...]
Undertaking a successful public project
Heading the project were three longtime town residents, two of whom chaired a volunteer town building committee that shepherded the project to completion. A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to interview the three … [Read more...]
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