So now the charter school advocates are trying a ballot initiative to raise the charter school cap. Think of the children! Those poor children languishing on the charter school waiting lists! I know from personal experience that there's … [Read more...]
Boston 2024 CEO says he’d vote “yes” on ballot question banning public funding for Olympics
Tuesday, the United Independent Party announced that it has officially partnered with Yes On 1, the organization that led the anti-gas tax initiative last year, to run a campaign for a ballot question that would protect taxpayers from the … [Read more...]
Tax the 1% in Massachusetts (revised)
How can we take advantage of the furor over income inequality and increase state revenues by taxing the 1%? David informs me (see first comment) that the Massachusetts constitution calls for a single income tax rate for everyone! Raising … [Read more...]
Plebiscite Fixes Languish
A lot of vigorous, alarming huffing and puffing comes from the bad guys on civil-right issues. In the half of the states that allow ballot referenda or initiative petitions, the wolves try to blow away the protections for groups of the … [Read more...]
Stand for Children, MTA and other leaders agree on evaluations; now let’s make sure they drive staffing decisions
With the introduction of the Great Teachers Great Schools initiative - An Act to Promote Excellence in Public Schools – earlier this month, and the subsequent lawsuit the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) filed to challenge Attorney … [Read more...]
What Mary Z. Connaughton (for Auditor) Doesn’t Want You to Know
This was reported by me over at KnowThyNeighbor and that Mary Z. Connaughton's Press Secretary, Mike Flynn, does not want any topic outside of "what an auditor does" to be discussed. As a matter of fact, he told me that this is coming … [Read more...]
Yes-on-8 Hiding Behind Children
Cross-posty:Also at Marry in Massachusetts. No one on the anti-SSM side can even begin to explain how expanding marriage (redefining it as they would have it) harms their marriages in the slightest. Court after court at local, state … [Read more...]
The Confusing Call on Question 1
That sounds silly and underneath is even sillier. Each of the major figures the yes-on-1 folk use is questionable at best:41% of the Massachusetts budget is fat and could be cut without any harmMassachusetts is fifth or eighth highest taxed … [Read more...]
Black Is The New Gay
UPDATED--ah, I remember in 2005, when GOP head honcho Ken Mehlman apologized for utilizing racially charged campaigns."Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically … [Read more...]
Worcester Marriage Rally Gets Ugly
Ms. Loy, admittedly, was in a section of the rally where she should have expected some resistance to her presence. But to be shoved to the ground by a 240+lb. man so hard that her head hit the pavement? It was completely uncalled for, to … [Read more...]