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Lobbying Speaker DeLeo: Bring H4440 to Vote. Allow Fossil Fuel Divestment

July 5, 2020 By gmoke

Saw this at the Sunrise Movement Boston events page (https://www.facebook.com/events/606019430292922/) while putting together this week's Energy (and Other) Events (http://hubevents.blogspot.com), my free weekly listing of events on those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: climate-change, ecology, energy, environment, lobbying, MassDivest, speaker-deleo, SunriseMovement, sustainability

SJC cuts signature requirements; an uncomfortable win for democracy in the absence of legislative action

April 18, 2020 By Charley on the MTA

Thanks to Christopher for flagging this down: The SJC has made a rather uncomfortable "emergency" decision, in halving the number of signatures needed for some offices; extended deadlines; and required Sec. of Commonwealth Galvin to accept … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: bill-galvin, COVID-19, COVID19, democracy, disenfranchisement, ed-markey, elections, john-walsh, ralph-gants, robert-deleo, sjc, speaker-deleo, vote by mail

Taxing Hospitals in MA. Pigs are flying.

April 14, 2016 By ryepower12

Before I post some big news from today, I want to discuss Partner's business practices for a minute. The Partners Network makes vast profits almost every year. I'm sure if you lined up all the businesses based in MA that mostly deal with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: baker, beacon-hill, charlie-baker, health-care, house leadership, legislature, speaker-deleo

Surprised?

June 28, 2013 By progressivemax

I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised to see this article in the State House News, but I still am. “I am surprised because I felt that the legislation which was voted on and approved yesterday by overwhelming majorities in both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, mbta, progressive, revenue, speaker-deleo, speaker-mass.-house, springfield, Statehouse-news, transportation, trasportation-bill

Legislative Errata

July 31, 2010 By HeartlandDem

At 8:40pm State House News Service reported that the six conferees for the tainted special interest gambling bill filed legislative errata to correct several (8-9 pages) of the errors someone managed to catch. Does this remind you of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: casinos, governor-patrick, mass-legislator, senate-president-murray, speaker-deleo

On the Way to Rebuilding the Public’s Confidence in the Legislature?.

February 19, 2009 By judy-meredith

It is so good to read a fact based analysis that gives us --pardon me -- hope that Speaker DeLeo has a leadership team that can help him begin to rebuild the public's confidence in our Legislature as a body that can and will consider … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: hope, legislature, mass-house, rebuilding-publics-confidence, speaker-deleo

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