I remember as a 13 year old getting riveted by the political cyclone unleashed by a humble man from Vermont. Sen. Jim Jeffords defection from the GOP caused the balance of power to shift in the Senate from GOP to Democrat, and shift all the … [Read more...]
Legalize Pot and Ban Casinos
For Three Clear Reasons: 1) Marijuana is Less Socially Harmful than Gambling I already pointed out in my previous thread, that casinos are a bad deal from an economic perspective. In short, they raise crime, close businesses, lower … [Read more...]
The Economic Case Against Casinos from a Surprising Source
As voters will go to the polls to decide the fate of the casino legislation passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Patrick, few of them will be considering the arguments often bandied about on BMG. Some here are opposed to casinos … [Read more...]
RIP to James Brady, Walter Sullivan, and Peter Vellucci
We lost three great men yesterday, who, in their own way, made their marks on their country and community and tried to make the world a better place. The first was James Brady, who was Ronald Reagan's Press Secretary paralyzed from the … [Read more...]
Rescuing the Middlesex DA’s Office from Marian Ryan
Full disclosure: I am a strong supporter of Michael Sullivan, and would be backing him for DA no matter whom he was running against. Last week I laid out an entirely positive case for why I was proudly supporting Michael A. Sullivan for … [Read more...]
Why I am supporting Michael Sullivan for Middlesex DA
While my affinity for this candidate and his campaign has been well known on BMG for awhile, I decided to take the time to write up why I feel Michael is the best candidate for DA and give him a full post. The name Sullivan has been well … [Read more...]
The Democrats SHOULD be class warriors
Harold Meyerson has another excellent, albeit long, think piece in the American Prospect that is worth reading in it's entirety. The thrust of the argument is well known. FDR was, like a certain other recent President, supported by big … [Read more...]
Why Gay Marriage Is Winning, and Other Fights are Not
This was a very provocative, and I think, instructive argument in The Daily Beast, written in the wake of the Hobby Lobby ruling focusing on how, in just ten years, gay marriage has gone from a radical social experiment brought forth via an … [Read more...]
Sen. Wolf and Sen. Donnelly Back Berwick for Governor
Don Berwick just got endorsed by my original choice for Governor, Sen. Dan Wolf (time is a flat circle!) and Arlington Sen. Ken Donnelly. From the campaign: At a press conference this afternoon, State Sen. Dan Wolf (D-Harwich) and State … [Read more...]
VERY COOL Graph Showing MBTA Commute Flows
Kudos to the Atlantic's Citylab and the original WPI students who made this nifty series of graphs. Original graphs here … [Read more...]
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