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Helping to fix our infrastructure problems: my Globe op-ed

July 12, 2012 By Steve 12 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democrats, economy, infrastructure, ma-gov, massachusetts, mbcr, mbta, sales-tax, small-business, steve-grossman, transportation

The next fight to protect Main Street

March 16, 2011 By jack-yunits 31 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: big-banks, credit, credit-card-companies, debit, dodd-frank, durbin-amendment, financial-reform, small-business, swipe-fees

Survey: Mass #1 in Small Business Employment Growth

December 12, 2010 By mannygoldstein 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: employment, intuit, small-business, unemployment

Small Business Support for Clean Energy A Key to 2010 Elections?

June 25, 2010 By nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clean-energy, climate, nrdc-action-fund, polling, small-business

Grossman to Banks: Act Responsibly or Lose State Funds

March 31, 2010 By Steve 6 Comments

Those criteria are: • 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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailouts, banks, credit-cards, credit-crunch, foreclosures, grossman, interest-rates, massachusetts, small-business, treasurer

5 Reasons the Climate Bill is Not Dead

March 11, 2010 By heather-taylormiesle-nrdc-action-fund Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: american-business-for-clean-energy, clean-energy, climate-bill, small-business

Five ideas to stop the bleed [also called the economic melt down]

November 20, 2008 By AmberPaw 19 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bailout, depression, jobs, recessing, small-business

Whiny Whiners who Whine

April 9, 2008 By tedf 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: small-business, tax-gap

How Edwards Can Win Over Small Business Owners

September 19, 2007 By interrobanger 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2008-elections, banking, bankruptcy-bill, chris-dodd, john-edwards, jre, national, president, small-business

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Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

The conversation between @drvolts and @chrislhayes is accessible to those who know little about the power system, and it's smart, funny and quite profound. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powering-the-grid-with-david-roberts/id1382983397?i=1000510291170

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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