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“Backroom” Strategists That Never Talk to a Policymaker are not Considered Lobbyists!

February 3, 2010 By Harmony Blakeway

This new interpretation is consistent with Common Cause's view of the statute and that of Governor Patrick’s former chief legal counsel Ben Clements, who chaired the Governor's task force on Public Integrity and wrote the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ethics, government-reform, massachusetts

Governor Patrick’s Balanced Approach to Our Structural Deficit

January 28, 2010 By Harmony Blakeway

As one of the long time community activists organizing to strengthen our neighborhoods and our communities through the Coalition of Social Justice and the Coalition against Poverty in the various South Coast cities and towns, I can tell you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, fy11, massachusetts, revenue-policies

Including a Revenue Message

January 7, 2010 By Harmony Blakeway

Your request for additional funding will be stronger if you can say that your organization supports increasing state revenues to support all of our public structures, including your request. This may mean ending special tax cuts or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, communicating-effectively, massachusetts, messaging, revenue-policies

Why We’re Part of People First

November 30, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

Over the past decade, our state economy has been growing faster than net spending. That means the economy has been growing faster than our budget. But during this same timeframe, state taxes and fees have been growing much slower than the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, civic-engagement, massachusetts, revenue-reform

A Smokin’ Success Story

November 18, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

[Crossposted from ONE Massachusetts by Harmony Blakeway]As our community leaders and advocates look through the dramatic cuts being made to all manner of state structures and programs, we thought it would be good to look at one of our many … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9c-cuts, budget-policies, massachusetts, revenue-reform, state-budget

Tomorrow’s 9C Cut Announcement: Can We Balance Cuts With Other Options to Support Our State?

October 28, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

ONE Massachusetts project director Yawu Miller spent this morning at the Tax Expenditure Budget Hearing, asking that committee, and the Legislature as a whole, to examine the tax expenditure budget as carefully as legislators examine the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9c-cuts, budget-priorities, massachusetts, state-budget, tax-policies

Virtual Rally III – Contact Governor Deval Patrick!!

October 22, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

SAMPLE SCRIPT The most important part of this script is that you customize each section with your own values, personality, etc. [Introduction:] Hello Governor Patrick. My name is Harmony Blakeway, and I am one of your Allston … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, massachusetts, revenue-reform, tax-policies

Could Adjusting Loopholes be Part of a Balanced Approach to Support Our State?

October 19, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

Peter Enrich, Law Professor at Northeastern University and former general counsel to the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance has been testifying before the Revenue sub-committee on Tax Expenditures, and for this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: massachusetts, state-revenue, tax-policy, taxes

We’re Not Alone… How Other U.S. States Are Dealing with Deficits

July 28, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

Reading through the reforms, I was struck by the number of options being proposed by both legislators and governors, and by the effort that folks nationwide are putting into supporting their own states and local communities. It obviously … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-priorities, massachusetts, revenue-reform, tax-policies

How Do YOU Think We Should Fund Our State?

July 9, 2009 By Harmony Blakeway

We all want to live safe, healthy lives. In Massachusetts, public services that we care deeply about - education, public safety, services for the elderly and disabled, and environmental protection, to name just a few - are hurting. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, massachusetts, policy, priorities, revenue, tax

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