The Obama administration announced that $15 billion of Medicaid funding from the stimulus bill will be released to the states on Wednesday. Of that amount, MA is scheduled to receive a little over $594 million. Anyone know what the … [Read more...]
Morning roundup
Items of note in today's papers. GOP Governors and the stimulus. This whole charade would be funny, if it weren't for the millions of people who live in Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, and other states who will suffer because … [Read more...]
You heard it here first! Jim Aloisi explains transportation reform as “the necessary thing to do”
We're not anti-labor. There will be people downsized when we merge the Turnpike and the Highway Department, and we want to offer people workforce retraining and other initiatives, because we care about people. But at the same … [Read more...]
What’s worse — an actual bigot, or someone who pretends to be bigoted to make money?
Wow. I mean, like, wow. So it's fine to make fun of anonymous gay people, belittle their struggles for same-sex marriage, and play the hilarious sodomy simulator on the radio ... but when it comes to an actual person, "I don't … [Read more...]
Truth, libel, and “reputational injury”
The woman's plea deal (which may or may not go through, but let's assume it does) would give her a very light sentence (effectively no jail time), in exchange for her promising to keep the man's name secret for her 3-year term of supervised … [Read more...]
A bizarre twist in libel law, courtesy of our local federal appeals court
The Court said, relying on a 1902 MA statute, that under MA law truth does not constitute a defense to libel if the alleged libel was made with "actual malice." And, the Court decided, "actual malice" means nothing more than, well, … [Read more...]
Harshbarger for U.S. Attorney?
Sooner or later, President Obama will get around to replacing the current occupants of the U.S. Attorney offices with his own people. A columnist over at Mass. Lawyers Weekly suggests that Mike Sullivan's replacement should be Scott … [Read more...]
Postscript on the Globe’s comment section: nothing on Kennedy?
My post last weekend on the Globe's comments section generated, amusingly, 138 comments. Apparently, bloggers and blog readers like to talk about nothing so much as blogging! Anyway, here's an interesting postscript to the whole … [Read more...]
When’s the best time to chat? — WITH POLL
The Internet is a marvelous thing, and there are lots of very clever people out there writing nifty programs that take advantage of it. One really spiffy one that I've just become aware of is called "Cover It Live," which is … [Read more...]
Rewriting the state party’s platform
Every four years the state Democratic Party revises its platform, and this is a revision year. And, as AmberPaw has already noted, I've been asked to serve as one of the co-chairs of the state party's Platform Committee. It's … [Read more...]
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