Continuing from my prior post and Fenway's excellent thread , I believe that it is important for the future of our movement and our party to focus on how we consolidate the great gains made by the two recent presidential elections into a … [Read more...]

Acording to Masslive. No surprise, he was burning bridges faster than Christie was closing em' … [Read more...]

Many here have probably read the gut wrenching story out of this morning's Times concerning a woman who has lost brain function and whose husband and extended family have lost the rights they assumed they had under the law to remove life … [Read more...]

Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby son is currently missing. Information can be found at this link and has been copied below. Kudos to David Bernstein for spreading the word, and my thoughts and prayers go out to the Jacoby family at this … [Read more...]

Obviously in a very heated argument among friends we can forget what we were fighting over. Whether for Tierney, Moulton, or hoping a better Democrat than either steps forward-we can all agree that while Richard Tisei is no Tea Party … [Read more...]

Mainly that it's awful, and not nearly as good as single payer. But he goes onto defend it as better than nothing, and also give shoutouts to Vermont for experimenting with single payer and our own State Senator Jamie Eldridge here in … [Read more...]

Cambridge native and fellow CRLS alumn and Red Sox fan, Bill de Blasio was inaugurated as New York City's Mayor today at 1pm. The new Mayor was sworn in by former President Bill Clinton. Not too far into his address he shouted these … [Read more...]

According to the Lowell Sun and confirmed by Robert Winters on his site, Middlesex County Clerk of Courts Michael Sullivan is running against the incumbent DA Marian Ryan who was appointed to fill that seat by Governor Patrick this past … [Read more...]

In the sixth year of the Obama presidency with stalling on all fronts for progress, and defensive battles against casino's and tax cuts on the horizon locally in Massachusetts, it's more important than ever to consider not what we have to … [Read more...]

Let me start by stating I hope this will be the first post in many regarding collaborative progressive policy making, it's me living up to a bloggers pledge I made. I've been reading a lot of Jacobin lately, which is one of the most … [Read more...]