Speaking at the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Service at Suffolk University Law School on Thursday February 5th, Charlie was snowing the crowd under with his intellectual firepower. An admiring Globe scribe remarked on Baker's … [Read more...]
Providers and the Health Care Problem
Hello, It's not getting much attention in the debate over health care when attention from the left focuses on insurance companies and the public option and the right speaks of government takeover, but providers will have to reduce costs. … [Read more...]
Jeff Jacoby at it again
This particular Jacoby piece displays all the illogic and mendacious reasoning one could expect. Cold weather in some spots during this past winter is supposed to indicate global cooling. Jacoby is not interested in heat waves, … [Read more...]
Kerry Murphy Healey
What is Kerry Healey Murphy up to these days? I happened to hear her while switching stations. She was talking to Michael Graham about income tax repeal and (I think) encouraging people to vote for income tax repeal even though it … [Read more...]
A Visionary Policy
The environmental initiatives set forward by the Patrick administration represent a major step forward for the state and indeed for the country in taking the lead in increasing the use of clean and renewable energy and in combatting green … [Read more...]
Boston and Berlin
Everything is not better in Berlin: there is a lot of smoking (including by young people) persistent unemployment in some former eastern neighborhoods, intense debate about how to or how not to better integrate some immigrants from Turkey … [Read more...]
Crossing the Threshold to Ruin: Hillary Clinton and John McCain
Since March 3, the day before her dramatic "comeback," Hillary Clinton has repeatedly described herself and John McCain as the only candidates with the experience necessary to be commander in chief while simultaneously denigrating her … [Read more...]
Failing at our expense-how Hillary Clinton gains experience
Clinton supporters have yet to address a fundamental problem with their candidate: why should Democrats again nominate a candidate who voted the wrong way as George W. Bush prepared to launch his catastrophic war in Iraq? Some of … [Read more...]
All Tolls All the Time–A Possible Massachusetts Future
In New Jersey, another state confronting a crumbling infrastructure (just drive down I-95 or the Garden State Parkway some time and see for yourself) Governor Corzine is floating a massive toll increase as a way to make up the spending … [Read more...]
Clintonism and Income Tax Repeal in Massachusetts
Results out from the State House News Service poll may attract most attention for presidential primary numbers, but they also indicate that the income tax repeal initiative is starting out where it stopped off in 2002. (See question … [Read more...]