Big day in Billerica yesterday. Governor Baker dropped in for a ceremony designating it "Yankee Doodle Town." (The backstory: in 1775 a young Billerica patriot seeking to join the Minutemen was captured by the British while he was trying to … [Read more...]
Senator Warren takes Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO John Stumpf to Woodshed
Must see YouTube. (If you prefer reading about eviscerations to watching them, BMGer terrymcginty offers some of NPR's summary here.) … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing DFER
A couple of items today regarding Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), one of the groups supporting charter schools in Massachusetts. First, DFER is putting $200,000 into Leland Cheung's Democratic primary challenge to State Senator … [Read more...]
AIM’s 2015-2016 Legislative Scorecard: Grading on a (Laffer) Curve
The state's biggest employer trade group, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, released its 2015-2016 Legislative Scorecard today, ranking all 200 legislators by how dependably their votes advanced AIM's legislative priorities. This … [Read more...]
Jamie Eldridge Goes There
Where a lot of BMG'ers have been on the subject of the state's Democratic Party for some time. His comments as reported in the Globe: “There are plenty of conservative Democrats who have been elected, unchallenged, for years if not … [Read more...]
Mass Fiscal’s New Legislative Scorecard Includes a Vote About Mass Fiscal
Our right-leaning friends at the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance are out with a new 2015-2016 scorecard tracking the votes of our state legislators for the session that just concluded. Mass Fiscal, for those who aren't familiar, is an … [Read more...]
First the Missouri Compromise, then Paul LePage
After reading the American Prospect's profile of Maine Governor Paul LePage (written by Commonwealth Magazine alumna Gabrielle Gurley), I'm starting to have second thoughts about our state's decision two hundred years ago to let Maine go … [Read more...]
Field Notes from the State Budget: Gov Targets the Disabled
Pop quiz. Which are there more of in the United States: (1) stamp collectors, or (2) families receiving cash welfare? If you answered stamp collectors, you win - congratulations! This datum -- that stamp collectors now outnumber … [Read more...]
What Makes the Globe Editorial Board Happy? The Senate is Curious to Know.
Outrage on the editorial page of the Globe this morning: Legislators’ failure to approve tougher penalties for nursing home violations is inexcusable. It seems that the House-Senate conference committee that negotiated the state … [Read more...]
Annals of Income Inequality: June, 2016
A couple items from the income inequality file. First, as State House News reports (paywall), the Baker administration is about the business reining in the overtime hours of the 39,000 people in the state who work as personal care … [Read more...]
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