Hat tip to Poorman for this Reuters report:Amnesty International appeared to base some of its allegations on detainees, "people who hate America, people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble, that means not tell the … [Read more...]
State party: maybe blogging isn’t so great after all…?
About a month and a half ago, the state Democratic Party decided they'd try their hand at blogging. We thought, hey, great! State party joins the blogosphere, reaches out to the netroots, and all that! We added them to our … [Read more...]
A source for more Green Line info
Anyone looking for more information on the Green Line's possible extension to West Medford might want to check out this Yahoo group periodically: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/medford_green_line_extension/Participants include state Rep. Jim … [Read more...]
Stem cell debate turns to funding
Having easily overridden Mitt Romney's veto of the stem cell research bill, the state legislature will shortly turn its attention to the possibility of using state funds to support stem cell research in Massachusetts. The Globe story … [Read more...]
Going too far
So the boys who "requested and received oral sex" from a 15 year old girl at Milton Academy have been charged with statutory rape (which makes it a crime to have sex with anyone under age 16, regardless of consent). They … [Read more...]
Association of ombudspeople smacks down Tomlinson
The NYT reports that the Organization of News Ombudsmen (everybody has an organization these days!), or ONO, has refused to admit the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's team of one "liberal" and one "conservative" … [Read more...]
Bubble bubble toil and trouble: Babies R not us
Young parents are not sticking around MA, maybe because they can get a backyard elsewhere. Here's a Globe column from Charles Stein (thanks to Democrants):Specifically, [demographer Peter Francese] doesn't see enough young people in our … [Read more...]
Rep. Lynch is thinking about it …
The Globe reports that US Rep. Stephen Lynch is kinda sorta thinking about running for Governor, maybe.Lynch would be the most conservative Dem in the field. I can respectfully disagree with his anti-choice views, but his vote in … [Read more...]
More on the Wellesley override
I can see two broad categories of reasons in support of the school board's decision to reject the privately-raised funds. The "strategic" reasons are the variants on the notion that "if we accept private funds here, the … [Read more...]
“We’ve got to do this!”
So here's the long-awaited GBIO action recap. (I'm getting up at 4am tomorrow for a flight, so I won't be revising -- sorry for the typos and syntax.)I arrived a little later than I wanted to, about 6:40. Temple Israel was already swarming … [Read more...]