Somerville Democrats: Please join us at the next Progressive Democrats of Somerville Meeting! Tuesday, June 23, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Visiting Nurses Association 259 Lowell Street, Community Room (3rd Floor) Topics will include an update from … [Read more...]
What were the benchmark “progressive” votes in the Senate budget debate?
This table summarizes the votes on the three amendments I discussed above. A blank box represents either a "no" vote or being absent -- but I don't think there were any absences on these amendments. And we use the traditional … [Read more...]
Honoring Kate Donaghue at the MW Dems Breakfast
Kate plays an important role here on BMG, always available to answer questions about arcane Democratic Party processes. Many people rely on her Democratic Dispatch to keep them informed about Democratic events across the state. … [Read more...]
What Part of De-populated Nature Preserve Do You Not Understand
Fantastic warm spring day trailride with all three very frisky Apocalyptic horses trotting neck and neck over barely unfrozen ground. Grampy giving a two year old complete enjoyment doing simple but very cool things like running up … [Read more...]
Pump Up the Gas Tax
Pumping up the gas tax by 19 cents a gallon hasn't met with universal acclaim in the four western counties, even though it would give public transportation in this part of the world a real shot in the arm. So here's a video of my friend Leo … [Read more...]
Advice for local pols, orgs
GLAAD's Justin Cole has some good advice for how local politicians and organizations should interact with state blogs. I'm embedding Part 2, because it's more relevant, but click the link to watch the whole thing. The gist of it? Don't … [Read more...]
Top progressive-themed movies?
Over on RMG, they're discussing the National Review's list of top conservative movies. Festus/Frank has adeptly covered the sheer weirdness of the list: "Lord of the Rings"? "Forest Gump"? "Groundhog Day"? "Ghostbusters"? My initial … [Read more...]
New Leaders Council – Boston 2009 Institute
New Leaders Council (NLC) is a non-profit organization that envisions a world where American political leadership is comprised of progressive-minded individuals. NLC believes that training and mentoring these leaders in every sector of … [Read more...]
Help Protect our Pro-Equality Supermajority – It’s Time to Get Involved
There's less than two weeks to go till the Democratic Primary here in Massachusetts. Yes, we know – there's so much interesting stuff going on in national politics, it can be hard to focus on the races we've got here at … [Read more...]
PDM Half Dozen Progressive Candidates: You’re Invited August 24
Carl Sciortino for State Representative - Somerville, Carl was one of the original PDM Half Dozen in 2004, and faces a difficult primary campaign. He is running a write-in campaign because of problems with his nominating papers. Astrid af … [Read more...]