With 20-odd candidates for mayor it ain't exactly decision time yet. But it is reading time! What books are folks turning to in order to better understand what this place is all about (and to gird themselves for the onslaught of "new" ideas … [Read more...]
Casino v. Wind Farm question
I'm not being cute or trying to play on people's cynicism. I really have no idea what the answer is or how to go about finding it. Here's my question: Is the ancestral land in SE Massachusetts on which the Mashpee Wampanoag are proposing to … [Read more...]
My letter to Parag Mehta on the Rick Warren choice
Mr. Mehta: President-elect Obama has cited his belief in inclusiveness as the reason for inviting Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. Inclusiveness is all well and good, but it should not be extended to Rick Warren, who … [Read more...]
Obama continues to hide big-money connections.
Obama will headline fund-raising events in Boston and New York on Wednesday involving his elite donor networks. He starts Thursday in New York, flies to Charleston, S.C. for a rally and then returns to Chicago for a "Welcome Home" … [Read more...]
Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez to Menino administration?
Read a letter in this week's Boston Banner (here, second letter, second paragraph) stating that Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez is "ready to depart the Legislature and join the Menino administration." Internet searches turned up nothing more. Anyone … [Read more...]
Exempt Casinos from the Property Tax
The economic impacts - the thousands of people a casino figures to employ directly and indirectly, as well as the employment it displaces (and the associated sales), will come not from the city or town in which the casino is located, but … [Read more...]