This just happened. I haven't read the opinion, but here is a release from the Court (pdf) summarizing it. The full opinion is here. I don't know anything about the procedure to amend the Iowa Constitution (or to replace … [Read more...]
Heavy hitters duke it out on BMG over proposed HEFA/MDFA merger
Amid all the brouhaha over Marian Walsh, it's easy to lose sight of the real and fairly important issues at stake with respect to the proposal to merge Sen. Walsh's would-be employer, HEFA, with another outfit, the Mass. Development Finance … [Read more...]
Marian Walsh: “never mind”
UPDATE: See Doug Rubin's comment below. Globe: [S]tate Senator Marian Walsh announced today she will not accept a $120,000-a-year position at a state authority, saying the public outrage over her appointment has created a "tsunami" that has … [Read more...]
Vennochi nails it
Joan Vennochi's column this morning is excellent. She diagnoses Governor Patrick's current situation as accurately as anyone I've seen: Call it the curse of high expectations. Governor Deval Patrick is finding out what happens when … [Read more...]
Memo to the Patrick administration: pick up the phone once in a while!
Today's Globe lays out, in excruciating detail, two embarrassing stories for the Patrick administration -- all based on emails produced as a result of public records requests. First, it turns out that ... well, I'll let Frank Phillips … [Read more...]
Pronunciation query
Why does President Obama say "PAH-kee-stahn," but "Af-GAN-i-stan"? Seems to me if you're going to pronounce one quasi-authentically, you'd do the same for the other. Just wondering. … [Read more...]
Senator Chuck Schumer backs gay marriage
New York's senior Senator has joined Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold ... and is that it in the Senate? ... in supporting full marriage equality for gay people. Go Chuck! Senator Kerry has taken a bold stand on an immigration issue … [Read more...]
We interrupt our regularly-scheduled government-bashing
to remind you that many -- in fact, I'd say most -- state employees go to work every day, work hard, and help people. Today, the Gov recognized several of them. Here are a few that jumped out at me: Today at the State House, … [Read more...]
Not getting it
Deval Patrick on Marian Walsh, Aloisi, etc.: One of the challenges in life is concentrating on the meaningful and letting the trivial take a backseat. And I sometimes feel like I'm in a profession now where that is completely … [Read more...]
Going meta
The Globe has published a story about Jim Aloisi's blog post that criticized a Globe story. So I thought I'd write a blog post about the Globe's story about Aloisi's blog post about the Globe story. Today's Globe story reports that … [Read more...]
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