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Massachusetts Ballot Questions, in haiku form

September 22, 2016 By marcus-graly 10 Comments

Inspired by Damian Carroll's version of this for California and LA. Q1: Builds a slots parlor Exclusively Suffolk Downs Without open bid Q2: Twelve new charter schools Must be opened every year First in poor … [Read more...]

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The “Transparent Airfares Act” and comparing constituent service

April 30, 2014 By marcus-graly Leave a Comment

Last week I learned about the disgusting, Orwellian-named "Transparent Airfares Act of 2014" that reverses DOT regulations requiring airline advertisements to accurately reflect the cost of the flight. Christopher Elliot gives some good … [Read more...]

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Race and Redistricting – Boston City Council edition

August 25, 2012 By marcus-graly 9 Comments

Current Districts

A recent diary covered the Boston City Council redistricting fracas, arguing that the plan the council narrowly adopted dilutes minority voting power.  The data does not support this conclusion. The changes are relatively minor and do not … [Read more...]

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Who voted no on the gambling bill

April 15, 2010 By marcus-graly 6 Comments

Here's a map of where the opponents of the bill represent: Republicans in Red. Democrats in Blue. Areas of the state heavily dependent on tourism, such as the Berkshires and Cape Cod, strongly opposed the bill.  These reps are … [Read more...]

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Political Redistricting: Capuano goes to the Senate

September 18, 2009 By marcus-graly 39 Comments

Detail of the City of Boston No towns or Cities are divided between districts, except Boston.  In the difference maps that follow, dark green represents towns that are in both the old and new district.  Light green is for towns … [Read more...]

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Removing Lynch in 2012

September 13, 2009 By marcus-graly 49 Comments

Notable Changes: The 1st district (Blue) picks up Northampton and some other nearby towns, smoothing the boarder with the second. The 2nd District (Green) makes up for the loss by grabbing Franklin, Attleboro and some other towns in that … [Read more...]

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Follow up to “On Pictures and Thousands of Words”

February 10, 2009 By marcus-graly 9 Comments

There was some justified criticism of Nancy Pelosi's job loss graph: First, that it showed absolute losses rather than relative to the size of the job market and secondly that in only included the two most recent recessions, both of which … [Read more...]

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New Districts for Massachusetts

December 9, 2008 By marcus-graly 30 Comments

District 1 Berkshire County Hampshire County, excluding - Ware Hampden County, excluding - Palmer - Monson - Wales - Holland - Brimfield I wanted to include Franklin County in this district, but it would have made the population too large … [Read more...]

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Purple 5th

October 17, 2007 By marcus-graly 4 Comments

In the spirit of various Purple America maps that followed the 2000 and 2004 elections I have created a Purple 5th map that shows the towns of the fifth district in various shades:Sorry the town names are hard to read. … [Read more...]

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Committee Votes Revisited

April 18, 2007 By marcus-graly 9 Comments

I emailed my State Rep, Carl Sciortino about it at the time:...The current system may have made sense in another time, but with today's technology the cost of making this information readily available is trivial and it would greatly … [Read more...]

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Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
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.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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JoeCurtatoneJoseph A. Curtatone@JoeCurtatone·
1 Mar

It's time to state outright that Charlie Baker's science advisory team is the Chamber of Commerce. That's why we were slow to act last year, why our public health network got ignored on vaccines & why our reopenings have flown in the face of data, expert advice & common sense. https://twitter.com/MikeConnollyMA/status/1366423893276303364

Mike Connolly@MikeConnollyMA

Just reiterating my COVID philosophy: Instead of bucking advice from the CDC and Dr. Fauci (by further reopening the Mass. economy), we should #TaxTheRich and use the new revenue to provide cash relief to people in need and small businesses while also investing in health equity.

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He’s running

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Mayor Joe Curtatone announces this is his final year as mayor of Somerville. @WBUR

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A Rhode Island-sized piece of ice just broke of Antarctica. The video of the breach in a 500-foot thick Brunt Ice Shelf is absolutely staggering

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