On July 8, members of Alliance to Develop Power met with Senator Scott Brown at his office in Boston. The 60 minute meeting, the first meeting of the Senator's tenure with a grassroots community organization, was largely focused on … [Read more...]
Dear Senator Brown,
Here and here is some demographic information about the 9.2 percent of your constituents who will be most affected by your vote: There are 321,700 of them. They have been unemployed for an average of half a year. Their … [Read more...]
Governor Patrick cuts the ribbon for EASTEC
Here is a short video on YouTube, well worth watching, as the Governor talks about manufacturing jobs in the Commonwealth. The Governor was invited to the ribbon-cutting event for this conference/expo in West Springfield, which is the … [Read more...]
Murphy Wants To Be Aggressive Treasurer
While he and Grossman each propose a half billion dollar fund for such goals, Murphy would like MA to go solo on this. It would require making those safe investment decisions with the pension money, but a fund solely with state money … [Read more...]
Grossman Calls for Activist Treasurer
The last politician I saw show all his cards so early in a campaign was Deval Patrick running for governor. That seemed to work OK for him. As a very successful entrepreneur and top manager of his family business, Grossman Marketing Group, … [Read more...]
Weatherization Barnraising: Cambridge, MA on April 10
Weatherization Barnraising Saturday, April 10th 12:30-5:00 p.m. Cambridge YWCA Emergency Family Shelter 3 Bigelow Street, Cambridge Pitch in to help 10 homeless families who live at the shelter Lower vast energy bills for the shelter so it … [Read more...]
Bad News On Mass Jobs
The Crittenden Women's Union released their new MassFESS budgets/calculations. This is very readable economic analysis. http://www.liveworkthrive.org/... This includes the Hot Jobs report where they list jobs which pay people enough to … [Read more...]
Jobs
I am the Republican Candidate for State Representative in the Eighth Suffolk District. I think my nearly thirty years of experience in the private sector will better serve the people of my district and of the Commonwealth as our greatest … [Read more...]
Tim (Murray) Talks Transportation
Murray covers the trends and specifics of his administration's actions. To Gov. Deval Patrick's credit, he has let Murray have his head and accomplish more than any Lt. Gov. I can recall. In transportation, that includes:The CSX … [Read more...]
Climate Change Is Moot
There is even an appeal to End Days and Rapture Ready Survivalists without scaring anybody with Al Gore or CO2: Solar IS Civil Defense. A few square inches of solar electric panel can power the flashlight (LED), radio, cell … [Read more...]