As the potential defaulting on our national debt looms ever larger and comes ever closer, there is a rising chorus of responsible conservatives who are speaking up so as to drown out the radicals on the far right who think that default is … [Read more...]
Stimulus funds net Wayland Teachers a $1250 lump sum payment
As you can see from the table below, Wayland got $244,512. They have 195 teachers as measured by Full Time Equivalents (FTE's). The link to the actual Mass.gov spreadsheet is here. The tab is aid436 and the cell is Cell 329:BE. … [Read more...]
How fed $$ are killing library branches in Boston
They will shut the branch libraries so they don't have to lend out as many books. They cannot operate by using part of the huge amount of tax money the city collects to pay for the libraries, depending on the state for that. Because the … [Read more...]
New DCF Protocol Is this research lacking? Opinions please? Guess cost
Link to research: CLICK LINK BELOW http://www.nccd-crc.org/crc/pu... … [Read more...]
Somebody else’s money
Apparently, the convenient fiction that the cities and towns are responsible for their own fiscal plight makes it easy for the Masters of Beacon Hill to play this kind of shell game. But as one mayor points out "It's a tremendous gesture, … [Read more...]
An Expensive Series of Tubes
Cross posted at: http://mattomalley.b...The so-called netroots have been particularly useful for my brand of politics, slightly center/more so left-leaning. After years of being out-gunned and out-maneuvered by our better organized GOP … [Read more...]