In the meantime, I found the link to Judge Ponsor's 106-page scathing ruling of 1/27/06. I strongly urge anyone interested in the welfare of the mentally ill -- and mentally ill children in particular -- to review this document and then … [Read more...]
More of what Romney’s budget cuts have done
Closing admission to the state mental health hospital system to all new patients and cutting 57 nurses and mental health workers and 16 pyschiatrists -- a move which may jeopardize the hospitals' national accreditation. Cut 40 positions -- … [Read more...]
Muffy the Hypocrite strikes again!
The hits just keep on coming -- check out this little tidbit in the Herald [http://news.bostonhe...] Rapists ex-lawyer in Healey campWhile Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey has blasted Deval Patrick for supporting Ben LaGuer, one of the convicted … [Read more...]
Nice article on Deval in the WaPo
Wil Haygood (whom my fellow middle-aged coots will remember used to work for the Globe when the Globe was a great, locally owned paper) has a lengthy biographical feature article on Deval -- check it out here: [http://www.washingto...]Oh, … [Read more...]
Muffy the Criminologist fails to do her homework: honors enforcer for Whitey Bulger
....In his tell-all book, Street Solidier, MacKenzie writes gushingly of his enforcement work for Bulger, including an episode in which he claimed to have swallowed a finger he chewed off an adversary.Whining that "the other guys didn't … [Read more...]
Muffy the Hypocrite likes lawyers when they save HER $$$$
The Court unanimously found that Muffy and Biff were right as a matter of law, even though the public policy impact of the decision hurt all the year-round residents by hiking THEIR tax bills. But that's not the point. This whole issue … [Read more...]
CQ Politics Calls the Race!
Now, I've been a Massachusetts Democrat and a Red Sox fan far too long to not worry about the possibility of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory; however CQ has some of the best poltical and statistical analysts working in the US. The … [Read more...]
New Healey ad — taking a page from Deval’s playbook
After two months of first attacking Gabrielli, then Patrick, with the advertising equivalent of a sledgehammer, it's very, very different. Talk to the camera, a few soft piano notes in the background, "we both come from modest backgrounds," … [Read more...]
Kerry Healey’s contempt for the Bill of Rights — a partial checklist
Endorse a proposal grounded in a false proposition that illegal immigrants are flocking to the polls -- and which one court after another has found to be in fact an attempt to disenfranchise minorities and the poor in violation of Article … [Read more...]
Healey stays silent while Romney again trashes nursing home resident rights
Khan and Sen. Mark Montigny, D-New Bedford, said they became aware of the problem when Greater Boston Legal Services recounted cases of elders being released from nursing homes to inappropriate places, such as homeless shelters and to both … [Read more...]