As the Reilly website outlines the proposal SMART is an initiative to raise math, science, engineering and technology education to new heights and to build the highly skilled workforce we need to keep Massachusetts competitive in a … [Read more...]
Kerry Healey lurches left
The latest: turns out Kerry Healey was in favor of stem-cell research all along! She just never mentioned it. From the AP article:Healey supported the bill passed last year by the House and Senate but later vetoed by Romney. The … [Read more...]
Sam Kelley
I decided to talk to him in person after his speech and that gave me an even better impression of him. His experience in business (used to run a healthcare business that took care of 10,000 seniors and employed hundreds of MA residents) and … [Read more...]
What would politics be without irony?
As .08 and MassMarrier have already noted, the Globe has a report today on Deval Patrick's visit to Dorchester's Greater Love Tabernacle Church. Why was he there?to explain who he was, and to address a belief in equal-marriage rights … [Read more...]
I spoke to Stephen DiNatale by phone yesterday…
Steve is making a bid for the State Rep. seat representing the Third Worcester (you'll need PDF if you're viewing the map) district, vacated by none other than -- yep, you guessed it -- Emile Goguen.I predict that he will win both the … [Read more...]
Herald: Galluccio was busted for drunk driving in 1984, later pardoned
From today's Herald:Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Galluccio..., 38, was just 17 when he was busted in Cambridge for OUI and put on probation for a year. Then in 1985, he got a three-month suspended jail sentence, another year of … [Read more...]
Driver of car hit by Galluccio says that Galluccio was drunk, tried to leave scene of accident
If you watched Channel 5's story on the four-car accident caused by Cambridge City Councillor and state Senate candidate Anthony Galluccio two months ago, you heard occupants of the three other cars - lawyer Ed Prisby, cab driver William … [Read more...]
Patrick, Reilly mix it up on Cape Wind
AP has posted an article provocatively entitled "Patrick calls Romney, Healey, Reilly 'gang-of-three' on Cape Wind."The issue is the amendment that would effectively kill the Cape Wind project and that Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) is trying to … [Read more...]
Blute decides against Senate run; begs Mihos to invite him to run for LG
Peter Blute has decided not to lose a US Senate race to Ted Kennedy, but "could be persuaded" to run for Lt. Gov., especially if Christy Mihos asked him. AP has the details.Mihos/Blute. Oh please oh please. … [Read more...]
Would-be Senator Anthony Galluccio faces reopened drunk driving inquiry
This is a truly remarkable story. A lawyer named Ed Prisby, who writes at an interesting blog called Prizblog, was involved in an accident a couple of months ago in which a car driven by Anthony Galluccio, currently a Cambridge City … [Read more...]