Also from this morning's <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/19/AR2005121900159_2.html?nav=rss_politics">"Misanthropy Before Breakfast" bill, reconciled by Congress: And in one of the most … [Read more...]
Hearing to keep Green Line extension on track in Somerville
Wednesday Dec. 21, 10am and 6pm. Andy's got the scoop, and he's added the hearing to the calendar. … [Read more...]
They’re STILL trying to destroy Medicaid
The conference committee on the infamous budget bill has apparently reached a far-too-typical conclusion: Screw the middle-class and poor. Again. Medicaid slashed by $4.8 billion , $22.8 billion over 10 years, according to Families USA, a … [Read more...]
New 2006 election resource for MA races
We're pleased to inaugurate the only (as far as we know) one-stop shopping spot for all seriously contested Massachusetts races in 2006. And it's a wiki! Here's the link:bluemassgroup.wikispaces.comThe idea is to create a single … [Read more...]
Rappaport to pay record campaign finance fine
James W. Rappaport, the wealthy former chair of the state Republican party who ran against Kerry Healey for the honor of being Mitt Romney's 2002 running mate, has been ordered to pay a record $60,000 fine for campaign finance … [Read more...]
Separation of Powers?
The second point I have touched on, the unconstitutionality of the actions of the President. I see this as an oddly bifurcated problem. I think we can find ourselves in a situation that had Bush gone to a court his actions in … [Read more...]
More response to RFK Jr’s op-ed
If you don't mind clouding the issue with facts, <a href="http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/footnotes/2005/12/17/robert_kennedy_s_misguided_editorial">here's Chuck Kleekamp responding to RFK Jr's NIMBO (Not In My Back … [Read more...]
A load of crap with a kernel of truth
Bruce Fein's WaPo op-ed on Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court is chock-full of mischaracterizations, misleading arguments, and everything else you'd expect from a Heritage Foundation type. But his essential point is … [Read more...]
More on Bill Weld and Decker College
The Sunday NY Times has a lengthy article about Bill Weld and the collapse of Decker College, the vocational institution of which Weld was CEO (with a $700,000 salary) just before it went bankrupt, stranding nearly 4,000 students.One … [Read more...]
Bush to Constitution: Drop Dead
Still reeling from the rejection by the people's representatives of his plea to continue torturing suspects, Bush admitted today that he approved eavesdropping without warrants on U.S. citizens. Seems to me I remember another Republican … [Read more...]