Here's a microcosm of how hard it is to get new housing approved in many parts of Massachusetts. As the Standard-Times reports, in Mattapoisett one road to just two new houses must present to & get approval from: Planning … [Read more...]

Tonight,  TrumpScare lost a humiliating defeat in the Senate as two Republicans --- Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) joined Susan Collins (R-ME) and Rand Paul (R-KY) --- in announcing they could not support a … [Read more...]

Two, three, four, five times each day I get the same robocall, cell phone and land line. Here's the text of the message. Permanently reducing your electric bill up to 60% through the US renewable energy program. The US renewable energy … [Read more...]

Our healthcare is currently safe from being stolen because an 80 year old man --- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) --- is recovering from brain surgery and can't provide the GOP winning vote to kill Obamacare and pass TrumpScare ? And this 80 … [Read more...]

(ed note: Added video of old Markey ad: "The bosses can tell me where to sit, but they can't tell me where to stand." - C) For a time "The 17" voted as a block and drew strength from one another, standing up to Thomas Finneran. I worked … [Read more...]

Link My read, as someone who has been part of the U.S. intelligence community for more than four decades, is that Veselnitskaya is probably too well-connected to have independently initiated such a high-level and sensitive encounter. If … [Read more...]

In light of the news in JimC's post below that House Ways and Means Chair Brian Dempsey is stepping down, I'm re-upping this post from a week ago to note the following: ML Strategies is a lobbying powerhouse on Beacon Hill. Its biggest … [Read more...]

Commonwealth Magazine, via email. Dempsey's decision to leave the House indicates he was tired of waiting around for DeLeo to retire so he could move up. Several sources said they believe DeLeo, who pushed through the elimination of an … [Read more...]

NY Daily News front page GOP hypocrites impeached president Bill Clinton in December of 1998, charging "perjury" and "obstruction of justice": ARTICLE 1: On August 17, 1998, William Jefferson Clinton swore to tell the truth, the whole … [Read more...]