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RIP Robert Honeysucker

October 10, 2017 By SomervilleTom

We all lost a great man last week, with the sudden death of Robert Honeysucker. The opera world knew him as a marvelously talented baritone. The Boston gospel music world knew him as an equally talented interpreter of traditional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User

Time For Action on Police Militarization: Turn Out & Testify To Stop Warrior Cops, Tuesday 10am @ Statehouse

October 8, 2017 By marthews

In the last few years, communities like Haverhill, New Bedford and tiny Rehoboth have acquired mine-resistant military assault vehicles for just the cost of shipping from the federal government; police in Palmer, MA have acquired a camera … [Read more...]

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Public or private, there are a lot of ways to waste money

October 6, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

You can waste money in the public sector. You can waste money via privatization. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, putting public projects out to bid for private contractors is not a cure-all, nor a guaranteed money-saver, nor a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: contracting, mbta

Time to Repeal and Replace the Second Amendment?

October 5, 2017 By jconway

Very surprised by this thoughtful argument from the Times new conservative pundit Bret Stephens. A contrarian is right twice a day, and while he may be quite wrong on climate change, he is absolutely advancing an argument we need to have on … [Read more...]

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Truly deplorable

October 5, 2017 By SomervilleTom

Distribution of Democrats and Republicans in a 10-item scale of political values A new Pew study is described in an NPR piece published today. While the NPR piece and the Pew study that it describes are studiously neutral, the attitudes … [Read more...]

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Once Again, It Is Time for Massachusetts to Lead The Way on Health Reform

October 4, 2017 By QuentinPalfrey4MassLG

Last week, President Trump and the Republicans in Washington came dangerously close to taking health insurance away from tens of millions of Americans. Millions more would have lost coverage for preexisting conditions or seen their premiums … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: #MALG, health-care, Quentin Palfrey, single-payer

Baker lays up treasures

October 4, 2017 By Charley on the MTA

Stonehill Professor Peter Ubertaccio has a new post decrying the tactics of Setti Warren's campaign, trying to strip the bark off of Charlie Baker's popularity. Setti Warren's campaign is alleging that the governor is dallying on Puerto … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor Tagged With: #magov, charlie-baker, mbta, setti-warren

State auditor has proposed regs that could weaken the Pacheco Law

October 3, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) The Pacheco Law has over the years been one of the more effective available checks on the runaway privatization of state services. But the law, which has been the target of continual attacks from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: developmental-disabilities, mbta, pacheco-law, privatization, seiu, suzanne-bump

“You’re letting all of us down”

October 3, 2017 By fredrichlariccia

I was so proud of my local newspaper's - the Wakefield Daily Item - editorial today condemning Congressional inaction on gun safety control : "... While we watched the footage yesterday in numbed resignation to the fact that nothing is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: guns, katherine-clark, las-vegas, Paul Ryan, Seth Moulton

Gun Law State Scorecard

October 3, 2017 By Pablo

Las Vegas is a tourist destination, and we are finding that victims of the recent shooting traveled to this event from all over the continent. Nobody was thinking about it at the time, but we have thousands of tourists being targeted in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: guns, las-vegas, nra

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