For the first time since 1911, starting today, marijuana is legal for everyone in Massachusetts! Well, everyone over 21, that is. Question 4, like every successful marijuana legalization initiative in the country, set the purchase and … [Read more...]
The Case for Inclusion: Supporting the Education Equity Bill in MA
Last month, the College Democrats of Massachusetts endorsed SD. 599 and HD. 1035, otherwise known as the "Education Equity Bill." This post, authored by the College Democrats of Massachusetts Latin@ Caucus, lays out why CDM endorsed this … [Read more...]
All’s Not Lost After McCutcheon
The Roberts version of the SCOTUS slammed good-government types hard, first with Citizens United and now with McCutcheon v. FEC. Today theSunlight Foundation’s Lisa Rosenberg (government-affairs consultant) gave me some perspective…and … [Read more...]
Senator Stan Rosenberg’s Whopping $400,000 Conflict of Interest
Congressional redistricting is a perilous political process even in the best of times, when no seats are going to be eliminated. There is so much at stake for different groups and the fortunes of the politicians themselves that it can … [Read more...]
Video Illustration of How Culture of Corruption Is Maintained
The recent State Senate debate about the amendment proposing to establish a 5 year “cooling off period” before any legislator could go to work for the proposed casinos has been the biggest news-maker of the process thus far and the first … [Read more...]
Six Degrees of Suffolk Downs
At the Statehouse. And way too early. Uncomfortable flashbacks to the Spring of 2008 and Gardner Auditorium, with it's tortuous tier of blue carpeted bleachers along the back wall, and where I (sort of) experienced democracy in … [Read more...]
UMass faculty: No confidence in Wilson, trustees
Yeah, this whole thing didn't go over too well, did it?In what Faculty Senate secretary Ernest May said amounted to a no-confidence vote, the professors passed a resolution to "express lack of confidence" in the board of trustees and … [Read more...]
UMess: Sen. Rosenberg is *pissed off*
AP reports on today's faculty senate meeting in Amherst with UMass President Jack Wilson. Sen. Rosenberg thinks the fix was in against popular UMass Amherst chancellor John Lombardi:AMHERST, Mass.: The proposal to reorganize leadership at … [Read more...]