Well, we heard that health care expansion in MA was coming down the pike. First the Guvnah tried to get out in front of the issue, then Travaglini held forth with a slightly less modest proposal. It's easy to look at the current scenario, … [Read more...]

Remember all that hoopla a few weeks back about the special elections, the disenfranchised BU students, and all the rest of it?  Well, those were just the primaries.  The elections that will actually determine who gets a new job … [Read more...]

On Tuesday, April 12, starting at 1 pm, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on several bills that can only be described as legislative gay-bashing:House bill 652, a bill of address that requests the removal from office … [Read more...]

Check out the Wind Farm Blog for a little anecdote about RFK Jr's latest fundraising pitch for the National Resources Defense Council:"Three of my kids - and millions of others - already struggle tobreathe on bad air days because they … [Read more...]

I was greatly saddened to see in today's Globe that state senator Charles E. Shannon, Jr. (D-Winchester) has passed away, apparently due to complications arising from his ongoing treatment for cancer.Shannon was a Lexington police officer … [Read more...]

Fresh from his 2008 Presidential kickoff in Spartanburg Slick Willard, The Man Who Doth Protest Too Much, is already sizing up Iowa. The Guardian reports that "Des Moines lawyer Doug Gross, the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2002, … [Read more...]

An irate Fall River mayor Edward M. Lambert Jr.  said Friday he will barge into Willard?s office to make a case for southeastern Massachusetts if His Excellency does not visit the region."I think it?s time to get angry," … [Read more...]

Yikes: "There are a lot more people questioningthe prevailing wisdom" of traditional fixed-rate mortgages, Lewis says.Many don't plan to stay in their homes for more than a few years andare unwilling to pay a premium for a 30-year … [Read more...]

Jerome à Paris has a très nifty post à Daily Kos about the wave of the future, wind power. Great pictures, too.And there's something we can do to promote wind power: Construction is highly irregular, because the federal support … [Read more...]

The Boston Globe ran an article today misleadingly entitled "Romney finds middle ground on stem cells."  (Romney, you will recall, opposes therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer, but supports research on … [Read more...]