AP is reporting that Senate President Travaglini and House Speaker DiMasi have at long last come to agreement on a health care reform bill. A vote in both chambers is scheduled for tomorrow. The AP report says that the bill … [Read more...]
Health Care Reform Bill Out
AP story hereMore details to follow soon.UPDATED: Act! has a summary and the full bill as PDF files on their action page.UPDATED AGAIN: AP has new story with more details. … [Read more...]
Galluccio Getting a Pass
Michael Jonas highlights the hypcrisy of the Massachusetts Democratic Party on the subject of drunk driving in a strong piece yesterday in the Globe.The Party has been going after Republicans with vigor on this subject -- in particular LG … [Read more...]
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Congress to let Romney kill Cape Wind?
The Alaskans are still after Cape Wind: now they're proposing to let their little assistant (Our Ex-Guv) pull the switch on Cape Wind:The new language, floated by U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, would target the Nantucket Sound project … [Read more...]
Open Letter to Josh Marshall on “picking” a baseball team
Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall is choosing a baseball club to root for. Even growing up in upstate New York, I never had any trouble or doubt about this, but here's my attempt to help him pick the right New York … [Read more...]
Trickle-down health care
Health care reform will likely end up in a cash bonanza for area hospitals; <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/04/02/healthcare_reform____with_a_dose_of_profit">Joan Vennochi and <a … [Read more...]
NY Times: internet is the future of politics
An interesting article in Sunday's NY Times. Short version: everyone knows the internet has got to be the key to winning elections. But no one has yet figured out how to use it.Read it, and tell us what you think! … [Read more...]
New poll shows Patrick doing better than Reilly vs. Healey
Kevin Rothstein at the Herald reports that a new Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll shows both Deval Patrick and Tom Reilly handily beating Kerry Healey - and that Patrick's lead is actually bigger:Patrick vs. Healey: 53 to 31.5 percentReilly … [Read more...]
Walter Brooks reveals anti-Cape Wind group’s high-roller fundraising
Kudos to Walter Brooks over at Cape Cod Today. He appears to have scored a significant scoop by revealing the fundraising strategies of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, the foremost opponent of the Cape Wind project. The … [Read more...]