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Should Voting Machines be Randomly Audited?

April 22, 2011 By Avi Green Leave a Comment

In this age of high-tech elections, with strong passions on all sides, it's essential that you know that the optical scan voting machine that counts your ballot works right every time.  They have to be reprogrammed with a new memory … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: elections, integrity, security, voting

We the People Endorse Bill Keating

October 24, 2010 By keating-for-congress Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: User Tagged With: bill-keating, congress, honesty, integrity, trust

Detroit unemployment hits 28.9% – and Michigan still requires ZERO financial disclosure

August 29, 2009 By AmberPaw 6 Comments

Detroit unemployment means that nearly 3 in 10 in Detroit need a job.  Pause for a moment, and imagine what local life would be like if nearly 3 in 10 needed a job in Boston, or Lowell, or Springfield. It may be that part of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: detroit, financial-disclosure, integrity, linkage, rule-of-law, unemployment

Robert Lappin – a hero for our time

March 11, 2009 By AmberPaw 3 Comments

http://www.bostonherald.com/bu... Many union retirement funds were totally depleted by having invested with Madoff, leading to "more 60 year old roofers and carpenters" who will not be able to retire soon - if … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 5.1-million, integrity, madoff, ponzi-scheme, retirment, victim

The Perfect Speaker

May 3, 2008 By AmberPaw 37 Comments

I am not naming names, but listing qualities [sorry to disappoint]. Here, is a list of the qualities that my favorite Representatives do have, and which I would personally prefer in a Speaker: 1.  Proven integrity over the long haul, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civic-engagement, criteria, integrity, proactive, speaker, vision

The Bird Flu Accident that Didn’t Happen in Austin, Texas

January 11, 2007 By annem 1 Comment

cross-posted from the excellent Seachange Bulletinthanks, sandy!The Bird Flu Accident that Didn't Happen in Austin, Texas gee, what were all those dead birds doing in Austin a few days ago?  i sure as heck hope that folks down there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bioterror-health-and-human-costs, corruption, cover-up, integrity, massachusetts, money, national, politics, science

I’m shocked! Guess who: He helped quash efforts in the State House to control pharmaceutical prices

January 10, 2007 By annem 1 Comment

...Finneran's guilty plea stems from his time in the Legislature. In a 2003 lawsuit over a plan to redraw voting districts, he testified that he had never seen the plan before it was released publicly; in 2005 he was indicted on three … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: corruption, health-care-and-pharmaceutical-costs, integrity, massachusetts, politics

3 Health Care Working Group Meetings of Patrick Transition Team

December 1, 2006 By annem 1 Comment

Meeting info from a colleague who is Chair, Health Care Committee, Mass. League of Women Voters (BTW for years the League has been a staunch supporter of Single Payer Universal Coverge reform)Health Care Working Group public meetings:1. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: civic-engagement, democracy, health-care, health-reform, integrity, politics

DailyKos entry on CleanMoneyElections, CA Prop 89. Are we in MA in the game?

October 7, 2006 By annem 2 Comments

  Political corruption is on the rise  Donations are comin' in super-size  Californians need a little bit of love  But we can't get in to the "Big Boys Club" A handheld camera shows the kind of enthusiastic crowds of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance-reform, corruption, creativity, integrity, politics

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bledwine Lea Benson 🍎 @bledwine ·
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Orbito-frontal brain atrophy #mapoli #MAEdu

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This week we learned that long Covid results in T-cell exhaustion limiting your ability to fight infection (think: HIV) and that even *mild infection* leads to orbitofrontal atrophy/volume loss in 30 year olds (Think dementia/Alzheimer)

CDC says: back to work

You’re on your own

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Beautiful day in Stoughton to be spreading the word about @ShannonForAG on the street and at the doors! #mapoli

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City Councilor Tania Fernades Anderson being Tania. Giving her support to @RicardoNArroyo running for another elected office. Meanwhile, he brings home NO bacon for his own constituents. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. What a lazy ass politician. #bospoli #mapoli

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WEB Du Bois Center to Host Elizabeth Freeman Roundtable – http://iBerkshires.com https://www.masspolicyreport.com/2022/08/13/web-du-bois-center-to-host-elizabeth-freeman-roundtable-iberkshires-com/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter @masspolicy #MApoli #Massachusetts

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Your confident MBTA hot takes will reach their full potential as amusing footnotes in a future book of mine about the politics of this #mapoli era.

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Controlling the Negro population in the USA,
And why pro-abortion rallies are mostly White and Jewish females
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Black Females have abortions 5X the rate of white and Jewish females

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