(Cross-posted from the Daily Kos) On Friday, the New York Times did some editorializing in the Business section to defend Obama's nominee for deputy undersecretary to the Treasury for domestic finance, Democratic bundler and investment … [Read more...]

A week ago, we learned that Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street) had pushed for including Mark Warner in the Senate Democratic leadership team in order to counterbalance Elizabeth Warren. The bankers whom Schumer views as his #1 constituency … [Read more...]

As the deadline for the submission of Boston's Olympic bid gets closer, there has been more media attention to the secrecy of the process by which the bid has been negotiated. Notably, there has been an absence of City Council hearings or … [Read more...]

Martha Coakley beat Charlie Baker in Boston 66.09% - 30.02%. Despite this, she underperformed all of the other Democrats in contested statewide races in terms of percentages and all but one in terms of raw votes. She fell 14,107 votes … [Read more...]

Today, the Senate voted on the Continuing Resolution that passed the House yesterday, with the funding authorization for Obama's plan to arm the "moderate" Syrian rebels. Last week, the New York Times had an excellent article on how … [Read more...]

On Saturday, since the candidate for whom I had been volunteering (Berwick) lost the primary, I decided that I would devote some of my new free time to the ballot initiatives. I signed up to volunteer for Yes on 2, Yes on 3, and Yes on … [Read more...]

I've been very curious to see the precinct-by-precinct results for Boston. And when I did, I decided to go through them and find some interesting tidbits about turnout and candidate support. (For reference, here's a map of Boston's wards … [Read more...]

This week is budget week in the House. Today, the House voted on two progressive alternative budgets from within the Democratic caucus: the Congressional Progressive Caucus's "Better Off Budget" and the Congressional Black Caucus's … [Read more...]

Two weeks ago, Progressive Massachusetts released the results of its candidate surveys. The organization sent a questionnaire to the candidates for each of the four statewide races this year: Governor, Lt Governor, Attorney General, and … [Read more...]