Here's one reporter's take on Deb Goldberg's meeting with the Berkshire Eagle editorial board.Highlights include:the state can best spur growth by investing in public higher educationdoes not favor single-payer health care but said she ... … [Read more...]
LG July Money
1. Deb GoldbergStarting Balance: $1,057,124.84Receipts: $1,023,417.34Expenditures: $98,199.63Ending Balance: $1,982,342.552. Andrea SilbertStarting Balance: $475.517.32Receipts: $68,851.00Expenditures: $19,040.25Ending Balance: … [Read more...]
NewsNight debate highlights some LG differences
In a mini-debate to be aired tonight at 7 pm on NECN, Jim Braude's NewsNight show brought out some interesting differences between the three Democratic candidates for Lieutenant Governor. Here's the short version (candidates listed in … [Read more...]
Deval picking running mate?
What do you all make of the AP article on Deval meeting with the three LG candidates? … [Read more...]
Convention wrap-up
First of all, congratulations to all the candidates, all of whom got onto the September ballot -- including, by a squeaker, Chris Gabrieli. Congrats especially to Deval Patrick, Tim Murray, and Bill Galvin, the convention-endorsed … [Read more...]
Goldberg backs New Bedford in defying MCAS (with poll!)
There's a bit of a firestorm brewing in New Bedford over the requirement that students pass the state MCAS exam as well as satisfying the school's other requirements before they can receive a high school diploma. The New Bedford … [Read more...]
Silbert Announces Jobs and Economic Development Plan
Also, it appears that she has seen Tim Murray's commuter rail wifi proposal and raised him: she proposes investing in statewide wifi. Touche, Mr. Murray, touche! (Seriously, both great ideas and both ought to be implemented in this most … [Read more...]
Liveblog of Harvard’s LG forum
Good stuff. Nice work, Harvard Dems. Interesting to see Goldberg talk so much about health care. Amusing to see the Sam Kelley manure-shoveling theme -- also comes across as the most enthusiastically liberal. I would agree that Silbert is … [Read more...]
Wanted: Health care chops from our candidates
So, it's looking more and more likely that our HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY for health care reform will be whittled down by the legislature, in the absence of strong, realistic leadership by Our Guv. And the Feds' unwillingness to provide Medicaid … [Read more...]
Picking our pockets
It's been thoroughly blogged on this site how certain businesses feel free to dine at the public trough, pushing their employees' health care costs off on the taxpayers. Remember the Free Care Top 20? And let's not forget that this is … [Read more...]