What do these states have in common? They all rate F for transparency. Here's the Weekly Dig's take on this https://digboston.com/mass-house-blocks-pro-transparency-pro-democracy-proposals/ The Globe has some similar coverage, I'm … [Read more...]

In 2016, a steel worker union official asked President Barack Obama at a June 1 town hall in Elkhart, Indiana, about job losses at a plant run by Carrier, an air conditioning manufacturer that recently announced plans to move jobs from … [Read more...]

Geoff Diehl running for the GOP nomination to the right of Charlie Baker. While I think Baker is a strong candidate for re-election, I think he is a weak candidate for re-nomination, precisely because his brand of Never Trump moderation … [Read more...]

Mark McGlone Baltimore, Maryland July 5, 2021 Dear Ladies and Gentleman, Good afternoon, my name is Mark McGlone, a volunteer with the office of Congressman Seth Moulton, and I am writing to you to urge your support for the bill … [Read more...]

I think it was David who had a tradition of posting this every year and I want to keep it going.  For the last four years on my FB page I posted a riff that was a bill of particulars against Donald Trump.   It is with tremendous relief and … [Read more...]

Every Independence Day for many years, I would read the Declaration of Independence before going joining my family in the Salem Willows for the annual Horribles parade and Conway BBQ. Since Ferguson, I have coupled that with reading … [Read more...]

The other day, I watched MSNBC’s Ari Melber interview Wolfgang Puck on the subject of restaurants reopening in post pandemic world.  Wolfgang, who, by the way has a net worth of about $90 Million, whined that he is unable to fully open some … [Read more...]

So, we have some real problems in America: A lack of funding for public goods like transportation and public education. Massive pollution in the form of methane and carbon dioxide burning up the planet (100 degrees in … [Read more...]