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Our question to Secretary Bigby

December 12, 2011 By dave-from-hvad 3 Comments

(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) It was the same story over and over at a public hearing this past Friday, presided over by Secretary of Health and Human Services JudyAnn Bigby. Speaker after speaker urged Bigby and her panel of … [Read more...]

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Let’s talk about cuts, baby!

June 13, 2011 By yawu 13 Comments

"It could be worse!" That’s the mantra we’re now used to hearing from human services, education and local officials grappling with budget cuts and the resulting layoffs. Maybe in this context, an 8.4 percent cutin the state’s k-12 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: an act to invest in our communities, budget-cuts

Is President Obama finally getting it?

June 13, 2010 By liveandletlive 2 Comments

Does he now realize that corporate welfare will not generate significant job growth, but a strong healthy working/middle class will?  In this letter to Congress, President Obama is urging "swift action on several critical priorities … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, congress, education, local-aid, massachusetts, president-obama, school-budgets

Call to Action to Avoid Budget Cuts!!

April 27, 2010 By judy-meredith 19 Comments

Let the legislative leadership know you won't stand for a budget balanced with cuts to your community. [Sample Phone Script] Speaker of the House Robert de Leo 617-722-2500Chairman of the House Ways and Means Charlie Murphy  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, one-massachusetts, taxes

Don’t let this happen!

March 9, 2010 By AmberPaw 5 Comments

Regional libraries on the chopping block Don't let this happen.  These are the ONLY internet access for many Massachusetts residents. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: broadband-access, budget-cuts, libraries, pure-stupidity

Reducing cuts to human service programs

November 19, 2009 By cliffcohn 37 Comments

Below is a letter from the President of SEIU Local 509. Local 509 represents over 11,000 human service workers in MA. About 2/3 of the members are state workers, and 1/3 work at non profit human service providers that contract with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, ceo-pay, human-services

Patrick Watch – While we were arguing about Coakley:

November 15, 2009 By paulsimmons 10 Comments

Patrick: Cut the State's rape counseling program by 66%. The program known as SANE - for sexual assault nurse examiners - lost 66 percent of its $2.4 million budget as part of the state's latest round of emergency cuts, leaving too little … [Read more...]

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Close the loopholes; raise revenues

November 9, 2009 By yawu 18 Comments

It was bad, but it could have been worse. Gov. Deval Patrick announced $352 million in cuts in response to a $600 million budget gap. Federal stimulus funds plugged the rest of the gap (see the Mass Budget and Policy Center's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, loopholes, taxes

Cuts eliminate court session!

November 9, 2009 By AmberPaw 2 Comments

I received the following e-mail from the Chief Justice of the Probate and Family Court, Judge Paula Carey, today [November 9, 2009]: NOTICE IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT WE MUST TEMPORARILY CLOSE THE CONCORD SESSION OF THE PROBATE AND FAMILY … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 9c, budget-cuts, concord, court-closures, lar, limited-attorney-representation, public-transportation

A balanced approach in Randolph

October 20, 2009 By yawu Leave a Comment

While many communities in Massachusetts are cutting services to make up for increasing budget deficits, Randolph voters, who last year passed a Prop. 2 1/2 override, are investing in their public systems and laying the groundwork for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget-cuts, proposition-2-1/2, recovery, revenue

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When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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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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.@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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