The idea of Ted Kennedy, Sal DiMasi, and Robert Travaglini, among others, standing behind "Governor" Mitt Romney as he signs the health care bill at Faneuil Hall makes me positively ill. And it should make them ill as well. … [Read more...]
Mr. Irrelevant: Romney to veto assessment
Well, it was speculated; he played Hamlet for a while, wondering if it was a tax or an assessment; was it animal, vegetable, or mineral, golly gosh ...Well, now Romney is going to use a futile, symbolic line-item veto against the $295 per … [Read more...]
Chris Gabrieli: a battle-tested policy wonk joins the Governor’s race (with poll!)
Gabrieli started with a short summary of what he hopes to see the next Governor accomplish, and why he thinks that person ought to be him. On the first question, he sees Massachusetts as dramatically under-performing - as one example, … [Read more...]
Kuttner on health care
This was in Saturday's Globe, now also on The American Prospect's page:Is the new Massachusetts new health plan really a model for reform nationally? Advocates of universal health coverage feel they finally have their nose under the … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick’s campaign cranks up internet operation
AP reports on the first significant advertising buy of the 2006 Governor's race: Deval Patrick's purchase of $50,000-$100,000 of internet advertising. The ads are slated to appear on sites like boston.com and cnn.com, as well as blogs … [Read more...]
Harvard Takeover: 37 Years Ago Today
The article continues:On the same day students at Boston University were conducting a tactical retreat after occupying a building for 2½ hours in a protest against the Vietnam War, across the river in Cambridge approximately 30 Harvard … [Read more...]
Patrick campaign stumbles on new blog
Yesterday, the Deval Patrick campaign sent out a press release announcing a fancy new feature on the campaign's website: a blog (called "The Source") featuring audio and video clips of Patrick himself and assorted boosters. Pretty … [Read more...]
Reilly Mulls Appeal In Baby-Cam Case
Today's Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports that Federal District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV admonished Attorney General Thomas Reilly's office saying that... ...any objective, reasonable person would find the Feb. 14 letter to … [Read more...]
Ambivalently optimistic? Optimistically Ambivalent?
That's how I feel about the health care bill. I'm happy that more people will be covered under MassHealth (est. 92,500 by FY2009) or the new Commonwealth Care program (est. 207,500 by FY09); ambivalent, because the personal mandate … [Read more...]
Mary Jean wins another round
US District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV issued this Preliminary Injunction against the Massachusetts State Police this afternoon. The saga of the baby-cam arrest video could set an important precedent for blogger rights. More to come. … [Read more...]
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