Adam Reilly has double-dog-dared the MA lefty blogosphere to comment about Deval Patrick meeting with legislators yesterday:... If you're a devoted Patrick partisan, you can't just pan the story as B.S. That Patrick met yesterday with … [Read more...]
Travaglini on the Family Leave Proposal
Travaglini talked about California's law, which has similar benefits but only covers 6 weeks and 55% of salary. He said it has been so successful and popular that Governor Schwartzenegger, who initially said he would try to repeal it, … [Read more...]
Paid leave: Pro-family, pro-woman, pro-kiddo
Well, here's the other side: to my mind, Travaglini's proposed paid family leave bill sounds like a well-thought-out and reasonable way to address the difficulty of having kids and retaining a job.Here's what the article says:The other main … [Read more...]
Trav proposes a well-targeted tax cut, and a questionable family leave program
Senate President Robert Travaglini (D-E. Boston) has released a package of proposals designed to help working families make ends meet. The centerpiece (at least IMHO) is a targeted tax cut designed to help low- and moderate-income … [Read more...]
Kuttner on health care
This was in Saturday's Globe, now also on The American Prospect's page:Is the new Massachusetts new health plan really a model for reform nationally? Advocates of universal health coverage feel they finally have their nose under the … [Read more...]
Ambivalently optimistic? Optimistically Ambivalent?
That's how I feel about the health care bill. I'm happy that more people will be covered under MassHealth (est. 92,500 by FY2009) or the new Commonwealth Care program (est. 207,500 by FY09); ambivalent, because the personal mandate … [Read more...]
Hillman … now Travaglini?
Well, this sounds bad, too:Months before he helped pass tougher OUI laws on Beacon Hill, Senate President Robert E. Travaglini intervened on behalf of a convicted drunken driver and habitual traffic offender who allegedly lied about being a … [Read more...]
Poll: Reilly well ahead of Patrick 50-27
... "among potential Democratic primary voters." Not sure I know what "potential voters" means, but there are the numbers. (Survey of 400 MA folks, +/-4.8%.) Patrick was down by 40% in the last SHNS poll, so it's actually positive news for … [Read more...]
What if the “sensible center” isn’t sensible?
Regarding the possible health care compromise, Scot Lehigh asks, "Can the sensible center hold onto a delicate deal?" He's referring, of course, to the $295 per-employee per-year assessment compromise recently struck between DiMasi and … [Read more...]
Our Guv: Double-pump no-look jujitsu weasel on health care
Are you at all surprised? Recently we learned that Our Guv is concerned about the $295-per-employee assessment in the House/Senate compromise. Said he might veto the bill.This is a broken record: We taxpayers are paying $213 million for the … [Read more...]