Dear BMG'ers, I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed that appears in today's Boston Globe. It highlights our infrastructure and transportation crisis and offers an approach that will not only fund long-overdue investments, but … [Read more...]
The next fight to protect Main Street
When introducing his amendment, Senator Durbin highlighted how he first became aware of Visa and MasterCard's stranglehold on the credit card market when the owner of his favorite restaurant complained. It's the same story you'll hear … [Read more...]
Survey: Mass #1 in Small Business Employment Growth
According to the Intuit Small Business Employment Index, Mass had a 0.7% growth in small business employment in November: http://www.marketwatch.com/sto... Not a perfect survey - they only measured states in which more than 1,000 small … [Read more...]
Small Business Support for Clean Energy A Key to 2010 Elections?
Yesterday’s Democratic Senate caucus meeting – combined with Majority Leader Reid’s push on this issue, combined with President Obama’s leadership, combined with a clear demand by the public for action … [Read more...]
Grossman to Banks: Act Responsibly or Lose State Funds
Those criteria are: ย Loans to small businesses to help grow jobs. "I have been to more than 175 cities and towns so far in the campaign," he said, "and one thing I hear consistently is that while local community banks are helping the … [Read more...]
5 Reasons the Climate Bill is Not Dead
As one experienced senator recently told an NRDC trustee: "I have never seen an important piece of legislation get passed that wasn't declared dead several times before." All the big bills flirt with death. Why? Because it is really, … [Read more...]
Five ideas to stop the bleed [also called the economic melt down]
Unless Massachusetts wants to be a third world style backwater, it MUST stop the bleed. What is "the bleed"? Well, for starters, "the bleed" is loss of jobs, loss of the 22-35 age group because they move away in search of jobs and … [Read more...]
Whiny Whiners who Whine
The New York Times reports that small business owners are up in arms about the Bush Administration's proposals to attempt to close the tax gap, which according to the IRS has three components, nonfiling, underreporting, and underpayment, … [Read more...]
How Edwards Can Win Over Small Business Owners
In July, former Senator Edwards gave a long, wide-ranging, very good interview to BusinessWeek. Here's the one section where he talks about the issue:What we're going to do is restore balance in the credit-card market. I am proposing a … [Read more...]