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So, if there's lies, damned lies and statistics... what do we call it when the statistics are baloney? The state of the Tierney-Tisei campaign, from the Salem News , reveals this tidbit on the two campaigns' dueling polls: Tierney's camp, however, said the GOP poll "has a double-digit Republican bias," noting that the same poll showed U.S. Sen. Scott Brown with "an implausible 24-point lea...
Ryan's Take - 7:27 p.m.
In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I take a multi-pronged look at what I think is clearly now a turning point on same-sex marriage, in light of President Obama's declaration of support last week. The feature is really conceived as several ways of looking at where we are heading, politically, legally, culturally, in partisan terms, and so on, ...
Talking Politics - 12:54 p.m. - 7 clicks 
Breaking on the Boston Phoenix website is some sad news for Boston-area music fans, regarding the independent rock radio station WFNX. Not much to say about this personally, other than it bums me out. For decades, WFNX has been the last real "independent" radio in the Boston listening area. (Other than the college stations, like WERS Emerson and WMBR MIT, which can usually only b...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - 10:26 a.m. - 11 clicks
Let’s take a trip in the wayback machine. Whims don’t win Online Archive: The Lowell Sun, February 2, 2011 When former Boston Red Sox star Curt Schilling was looking for the state’s assistance to build a video-game enterprise, he was snubbed. So Schilling took his ......
Left In Lowell - 10:07 a.m. - 11 clicks
This Monday I did the first of what should be, for a while at least, a regular call-in to WCAP (at 9:10 a.m. on 980 AM) to discuss the issues of the day with Ted Panos. We tackled two: men’s fashion and gay marriage. I never would have imagined that the former would be the [...]...
Richard Howe - 4:49 a.m. - 13 clicks
The weather forecast for this weekend is superb, so please join us for one of our free walking tours of historic Lowell Cemetery. The tours begin on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 1 pm and on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 10 am, both from the Lawrence Street Gate. The tour involves 90 minutes of [...]...
Richard Howe - 4:49 a.m. - 12 clicks
The Globe today reports on the Boston Police Department’s strategy of (1) greatly increasing the number of officers walking neighborhood beats in the city; and (2) how the department is employing Twitter in conjunction with those officers on foot. For now, individual officers do not have Twitter “handles”, but supervisors who accompany them do and [...]...
Richard Howe - 4:25 a.m. - 12 clicks
From UMass Lowell Public Affairs Office Contacts: Christine Gillette, 978-934-2209 or Christine_Gillette@uml.edu; Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944 or Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu Stephen King to Speak at UMass Lowell Legendary Author to Make Rare Personal Appearance at Event for Public, Campus LOWELL, Mass. – Stephen King’s words on page and screen have thrilled and chilled fans for three decades, but [...]...
Richard Howe - 3:49 a.m. - 12 clicks
It's not often that the governors of two states get to say "I told you so." But Deval Patrick has chosen quiet satisfaction while Lincoln Chafee is scrambling to save his taxpayers $75 million. That's the chunk of change Rhode Island economic development officials waved in front of Curt Schilling to move his business from Massachusetts . The former Red Sox pitcher's video game development compan...
Massachusetts Liberal - 3:03 a.m. - 12 clicks
In her opinion column today, NYTimes writer Maureen Dowd notes that social-justice advocate Rev Seamus Finn, OMI, who grew up in Lowell, was one of the few shareholders to challenge JP Morgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon about the bank’s recent huge financial blunder. Rev Finn asked if this episode was evidence that banks really do need to be [...]...
Richard Howe - 2:48 a.m. - 12 clicks
Longtime Tewksbury resident Jay Gaffney (who recently moved to Lowell) very kindly shared this terrific tale of two football playing authors whose athletic careers brought them to the playing fields of Lowell, Massachusetts. Jay can be contacted at JJGiiiLaw@verizon.net Copyright, James J. Gaffney III, 2012 LOWELL’S “OTHER” FAMOUS FOOTBALL PLAYING AUTHOR. Lowell can turn up [...]...
Richard Howe - Tue 4:28 p.m. - 13 clicks
Reminder for next GLAD Meeting Greater Lowell Area Democrats Regular Breakfast Meeting This Saturday May 19, 2012 8:00 AM SHARP Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel Rte. 110 in Chelmsford Special guests: Candidates for Governor’s Council in 5th and 6th Districts Former State Rep Barbara L’Italien Candidate in the new 18th Essex Rep District Presentation by [...]...
Richard Howe - Tue 2:45 p.m. - 13 clicks
Not your usual politician, as Alex Buck describes himself, joined us today to pitch his positions and his aims if he becomes Susan Fargo’s replacement in the MA Senate for 3rd Middlesex. He says he tells voters in his front door speech that’s one of his pluses. He warned us that his campaign site is almost [...]...
Left Ahead! - Tue 1:44 p.m. - 11 clicks
Corporate education reform group Stand for Children has Massachusetts in its crosshairs, threatening a ballot measure that would make it easier to fire teachers based on an untested, unproven evaluation system. This is despite the fact that Massachusetts has, by many measures, the best schools in the nation . Though there are real grassroots activists in Stand for Children's background, ...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Tue 1:07 p.m. - 13 clicks
Over the last month, we’ve seen thousands of people across the country rise up to call out big companies like General Electric , Wells Fargo and Bank of America for their “economic crimes against the 99%” – whether inside shareholder meetings or out in the streets. Now it’s our turn to take on corporate greed right here in Massachusetts. In boardrooms from Wall Street to the W...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Tue 11:01 a.m. - 12 clicks
We see here in Daily Kos the stories of our friends, our compatriots, our companions who are gay. I find them incredibly brave. I wonder how I would respond and react if I were gay … would I have the nerve to come out, to be open about myself and my sexuality. For me, the answer “yes” is not so obvious it seems. Barney Frank is one who came out in 1987, AIDS was epidemic a...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Tue 8:05 a.m. - 13 clicks
Scott Brown has gotten downright cheeky about Elizabeth Warren's cheekbones. After all, it's a great diversion. The junior senator and his campaign have been focusing like a laser beam on the questions they have raised about Warren's Native-American heritage. You half expect Brown to call for a congressional hearing on the topic, something his Republican colleagues would no doubt endorse. And ...
Massachusetts Liberal - Tue 4:49 a.m. - 17 clicks
I distinctly remember these words being echoed within the bubble during the 2011 election cycle. I’m not sure which candidate said it, but it stuck.(Note: It was Marty Lorrey on a WCAP appearance) The logic followed, most voters were not unhappy with Lynch. Thus, whacking him was risky. Fred Doyle ......
Left In Lowell - Mon 8:31 p.m. - 15 clicks
Although I've followed politics since I turned 18, I don't believe I made my first political contribution until 2008. I'd moved to Ft Collins for school and my "representative" at the time was Marilyn Musgrave, whom I've sure many of you are familiar with. As a starving student, I didn't have a lot of cash, but I was able to kick in a few bucks for Betsy Markey (who went on to serve one term in ...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Mon 7:49 p.m. - 22 clicks
Given the recent spate of good news about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the GOP nominee for President and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney should be embracing his Bay State association instead of running away from it or re-characterizing it. Although it’s not a new stance for Mr. Mitt. During the last part of his governorship, Romney - in anticipation [...]...
Richard Howe - Mon 1:04 p.m. - 15 clicks
Ron Paul's cohort is fighting tooth and nail all over this country to get delegate's credentials for the republican national convention this summer. Now, they are obligated to vote for Mitt Romney, but their mere presence on the floor opens up all sorts of potentially disruptive scenarios. And to think a mere three months ago, Ron Paul was running all sorts of interference for Romney in the v...
Chimes at Midnight - Mon 11:45 a.m. - 15 clicks
We take pride in our diversity, but we also take it casually. Greg Page describes why that is a great thing. For all its faults, Lowell isn’t a pretender town. We walk the walk. As per my post below, not only is our state awesome, but so is our city. And ......
Left In Lowell - Mon 9:46 a.m. - 14 clicks
In case you needed a reason to feel superior, here’s an article in Slate touting why Massachusetts is one of the best states to live and work in. Because by the numbers, we stack up really well. Even to the rest of the world. Did you know that Massachusetts ranks lowest ......
Left In Lowell - Mon 8:05 a.m. - 16 clicks
Because I'm a dork -- do I even need to preface my blog posts with that, as if anyone didn't know? -- I really enjoyed seeing an ice sculpture get taken off the truck and assembled in front of Golden Temple. At about 1:30, Molly and I went out to walk a dog we were dogsitting. We saw the Brookline Ice and Coal truck unloading the beginning of the ice sculpture. Even the dog thought it was interes...
1 Smoot Short of a Bridge - Sun 10:04 p.m. - 15 clicks
So, I got the brilliant (?) idea to do a tour of all of the giant heads of Boston. Not sure if I'd want to do, say, a bike tour, or more like a party bus tour (bike tour is better for the planet and urban living and such, but party bus would be accessible to people who can't ride a bike). The heads I've come up with so far are: Joseph Wheelwright's "Sleeping Moon"...
1 Smoot Short of a Bridge - Sun 10:04 p.m. - 16 clicks
The Boston Globe may or may not let non-subscribers click through to the full article , depending on its mood, but here's the summary: Under the Massachusetts proposal, which is virtually identical to the laws in Oregon and Washington, terminally ill, mentally competent adults deemed to have six months or less to live would have the freedom to obtain a fatal prescription. They could qualify o...
1 Smoot Short of a Bridge - Sun 10:04 p.m. - 16 clicks
WUMB apparently played it at 9:00 already , will be playing it again at noon. Sometimes they play the 30th anniversary edition. ("And I asked myself, I said, Arlo, how many things in the world are 18 minutes and 20 seconds long?") WZLX is once again doing it at 9, noon, and 4. WXRV 92.5 The River often plays it at noon, but doesn't mention it this year on their site or on their fa...
1 Smoot Short of a Bridge - Sun 10:04 p.m. - 16 clicks
Incorporated, is lobbying the Tea Partei dominated New Hampshire State Legislature to establish a chain of boutique hospitals in Southern NH and grab off a bit of the high end healthcare trade from Metro Boston. Fair enough, I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest that there is no shortage of sick people or monied persons who want expensive elective surgery. I think it is plainly appalling thou...
Chimes at Midnight - Sun 4:25 p.m. - 18 clicks
Let’s join in the fun. Please share with us, why you think Mayor Murphy sucks as Mayor. We at LiL are not above playing The Sun’s reindeer games. Though this particular game is despicable, it could be fun? I’ll start. Mayor Murphy sucks because he recognizes that Lowell is a true melting ......
Left In Lowell - Sun 12:32 p.m. - 18 clicks
Just in case you had forgotten, the campaign web sites of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney want to remind you it's Mother's Day. The Obama site includes a card you can sign for the First Lady and a video of the President paying tribute to his mom and grandmother. Meanwhile, Team Romney is offering " Moms Drive the Economy " bumper stickers, Ann Romney's USA Today op-ed on " Three Seasons...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Sun 11:50 a.m. - 17 clicks
Wow, did you see how hard Eric Fehrnstrom is running away from himself? The evidence is all over Page One of today's Globe, where the Scott Brown campaign worked a story declaring just how little the junior senator has in common with Mitt Romney. Except of course for a campaign adviser named Fehrnstrom. The Brown camp is obviously concerned Romney's deep unpopularity in one of his home states ...
Massachusetts Liberal - Sun 9:49 a.m. - 19 clicks
Like the force of gravity or the sun rising in the east, Mitt Romney's pathological lying is now taken for granted. As Steve Benen among others can attest, documenting Romney's runaway mendacity may now be America's greatest growth industry. Explaining the causes of Mitt's daily dissembling may be another. Rick Perlstein looked to Shakespeare, seeing Romney as an undoubting H...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Sat 1:50 p.m. - 19 clicks
address at that bastion of Xian Rectitude, Liberty University today. Given Mitt's tendency to grovel before hard right book worshippers we can rule out any sort of a "Sistah Soljah" moment in today's speech. Mitt idea of a "Sistah Soljah moment" is denouncing gay marriage with all the phony righteous of AM radio prophet...in a voice dripping with "Father Knows Best" smarm. Y'know, I'm beginning...
Chimes at Midnight - Sat 8:45 a.m. - 19 clicks
Joseph P. Kennedy once famously told his son " all businessmen are sons of bitches ." And John F. Kennedy never even met the " masters of the universe. " Yet here we are, less than four years removed from the epic collapse of Wall Street -- and the promises of better behavior by those masters -- with another sign that old Joe Kennedy may have been understating things. In one of those obtuse and ...
Massachusetts Liberal - Sat 6:51 a.m. - 17 clicks
Elizabeth Warren did not enjoy special treatment, social-mobility or affirmative-action because of her “minority status.” She achieved recognition because of her merits, as her Harvard colleague Charles Fried attests Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined ...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - Fri 12:34 p.m. - 22 clicks
some loutish bullying behavior back when he was "The Governor's Son" at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. Lordy imagine what the Boston Herald would have done with this story if only it was perpetrated by a member of the Kennedy Family? Back in the Day, Cranbrook was renowned at the time for turning out a particular type of overconfident twit armored with a thick protective layer of sheer entitle...
Chimes at Midnight - Fri 11:04 a.m. - 22 clicks
So, what does the high school pranks and bullying story tell us about Mitt the man? One of the best concise summaries I've ever seen of Mitt Romney's character comes on page 3 of R.B. Scott's "Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics," which came out late last year. Scott opens his biography with the tale of Romney's 1981 arrest in Natick, a minor inci...
Talking Politics - Fri 7:27 a.m. - 22 clicks
I don't think this is what Ann Romney had in mind when she called her husband " a wild and crazy man. " The Washington Post offered a lengthy look at Romney's time at Cranbrook School , where the son of an auto industry executive apparently felt a need to compensate for American Motors' status as No. 4 in the auto world. The portrait seems to foreshadow the Romney of today, a guy just tryi...
Massachusetts Liberal - Fri 3:11 a.m. - 19 clicks
I just spoke with Arline Isaacson, who was a central figure in the battle for same-sex marriage here in Massachusetts. Isaacson says that even yesterday morning, when word was spreading that Obama was going to speak on the issue, she didn't believe he would come out fully in favor of the right for same-sex couples to wed. "I give him a lot of credit for this," Isaacson said. &quo...
Talking Politics - Thu 9:47 a.m. - 20 clicks
wants Citizen Elizabeth Warren to release all her job applications and college transcripts in order to prove somehow she never got a McDonald's Happy Meal solely on the basis of her presumed Cherokee Indian ancestry. I'm still waiting for Former State Senator Brown to release results of his last three I.Q. tests... But I snark...it has been a good week for our boodling, chiseling, pension grubb...
Chimes at Midnight - Thu 9:47 a.m. - 19 clicks
The Blog of Record took its time in mulling over the water cooler chatter, re: Lynch-Cambridge. Yet, Chris Scott laid an egg. Two points: First. The city of Cambridge has been managed by a Lowell resident, Robert Healy, since 1981. This much is clear: Lynch is surely looking at job postings and the ......
Left In Lowell - Thu 7:50 a.m. - 20 clicks
Barack Obama dropped a bomb on a Republican Party already splintered into fiscal and social issues conservatism. Obama's long-delayed and hardly unexpected decision to publicly declare his support for gay marriage comes as the GOP attempts to repair the rifts between its wings from a primary battle that pitted Mitt Romney against social conservatives. The lingering damage was apparent when Ric...
Massachusetts Liberal - Thu 4:27 a.m. - 25 clicks
Good grief. OK, we started the day with the latest round of ridiculous stories about Elizabeth Warren's ancestry -- guaranteed by Senator Scott Brown, who put out his first major statement on it yesterday, perfectly timed to distract from his vote against capping student loan interest rates. Brown called on Warren to release law school applications and personnel files and whatnot, because of...
Talking Politics - May 9 - 20 clicks
In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, nline now -- I look at the challenge for Mitt Romney in selling himself to women voters, when the Republican Party has so few prominent Republican women who can act as surrogates for him. Here's the link to the story , but I also want to add a couple of notes relating to Romney's history with women. First, jus...
Talking Politics - May 9 - 18 clicks
I have created a tumblr of pictures of Massachusetts politicians, photographed with animals. It's at http://mapoliwithanimals.tumblr.com/ Send yours to me at dbernstein@phx.com And yes, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. [ View the story "Massachusetts Politicians with Animals" on Storify ] ...
Talking Politics - May 9 - 21 clicks
It looks like you need a college education to understand the debate over college student loan interest. Junior Senator Scott Brown took time out from his search for Native-Americans at Harvard to author a truly acrobatic one-day flip-flop -- voting with fellow Republicans to defeat a proposal to keep interest on college student loans low before turning around and proposing a bill to keep inte...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 9 - 22 clicks
Chelmsford’s Alex Buck is in the Dem race for MA Senate from 3rd Middlesex. He bills himself as a progressive and says he’s the one to stand up to entrenched pols and special interests. He has a masters from Harvard’s Kennedy school, has had local public offices, and successfully turned around a small business. He [...]...
Left Ahead! - May 8 - 14 clicks
In the crowded (5 Dems and 2 GOP sorts) for MA Senate 3rd Middlesex to replace Susan Fargo, Joe Kearns Goodwin says he has the consensus-building and problem-identifying/solving background to lead in the job. He joined us today to describe his personality, abilities, and aims. Click below to listen in as he he hits his positions [...]...
Left Ahead! - May 8 - 12 clicks
Mitt Romney is now claiming paternity for President Obama's auto industry rescue that saved over a million jobs nationwide. But while he most certainly isn't the father of a reborn Detroit, the successful 2006 health care reform law he signed in Boston has become Mitt Romney's bastard love child. Americans should give credit where credit is due. And on health care, as we'll s...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - May 8 - 19 clicks
Just a little update for the obsessively interested Massachusetts political junkies: these are the first challengers for state senate seats to have officially qualified for the ballot. This means getting signatures verified and filed, and opening a campaign account, and so on. (I'm not listing incumbents; assume they qualify unless I write a post screaming that someone failed to qualify.) Als...
Talking Politics - May 8 - 14 clicks
a Board of Selectmen that is opposed to Steve Wynn's plan to open a resort casino in that community. Maybe that is the way to go? I mean fight it out locally precinct by precinct, all efforts to create a statewide anti casino coalition have ended in failure. It is easier to get people focused on the costs and downside of casino gambling when one of the damn things is going up in your town...o...
Chimes at Midnight - May 8 - 15 clicks
Even John McCain, who thought Sarah Palin was qualified to lead the nation, publicly called out an Obama Derangement Syndrome sufferer who suffered a public nutty . Not our Man Myth Romney. Instead, Romney embarked on what Washington Post political writer Melinda Hennenberger called a Mormon Moment , offering an off-topic constitutional defense to the town hall commenter who declared Obama "sho...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 8 - 10 clicks
This event sounds amazing and I encourage everyone to go. I am a big fan of experiential learning classes, which help students combine their in-class knowledge with real world experience, and, at best, culminate in an opportunity for students to have an impact on the real world by presenting what they've learned, in a practical [...]...
Innermost Parts - May 7 - 5 clicks
Good old Bob Maginn, chairman of the completely disfunctional Massachusetts Republican Party, is standing up for the reputation of Harvard Law School, which has recently been under attack by Maginn's good friend and fellow Harvard Law alum Willard Mitt Romney, who has gone around saying that people who spend time at the place become snobs incapable of relating to regular human people. Of whom...
Talking Politics - May 7 - 7 clicks
For 50 years now, ever since Dick Nixon taught them how, Republicans have used the same tactics over and over again to try and win elections: attack Democrats as snobby elites and raise questions about issues like affirmative action to try and appeal to working class white voters who tend to be the biggest group of swing voters. With Nixon and Reagan, that at least made political sense even thou...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - May 7 - 9 clicks
It's a monthly journalistic ritual, tracking the jobs and unemployment rate, one politicians love to use to make headlines. But the methodology behind that data should make any good reporter sit up and ask tougher questions. True to form, Mitt Romney blasted April data that showed the 115,000 jobs created came up short of what the fortune tellers predicted for the month. Lost in the headlines, ...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 5 - 8 clicks
Discussing the Affordable Care Act with right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt in March, Mitt Romney declared, "If I'm the godfather of this thing, then it gives me the right to kill it." But the former Massachusetts governor isn't merely promising to " kill it dead " at the national level. As it turns out, Romney's plan for draconian cuts to Medicaid would strangle the popular and success...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - May 4 - 7 clicks
that State Senator Will Brownsberger (Whose 24th Middlesex House Seat is up for grabs) is remaining studiously neutral in the coming primary fight for the moment. This makes sense, an up and comer from Belmont, a School Committee Maacher from Arlington and one of his old interns are all piling into the democratic primary and cut off date to pull papers has not yet wrung down. Good time to dummy up...
Chimes at Midnight - May 4 - 7 clicks
Mitt Romney appears ready to take flip-flopping to unprecedented -- and costly -- levels to the state that thrust him into political prominence. The Boston Globe reports the former Bay State governor has a secret plan to overhaul Medicaid funding. It would gut the signature law he thought would catapult him into the White House -- at least until the GOP's Obama Derangement Syndrome determined ...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 4 - 5 clicks
As the House and Senate get close to releasing their versions of comprehensive payment and delivery reform legislation, the Campaign For Better Care, with the help of students from the Harvard School of Public Health, will be doing a series … Continue reading → ...
A Healthy Blog - May 3 - 6 clicks
Regarding the departure of a gay staffer from the Romney campaign, which I mentioned the other day , I have a question. It's not about the details of the Richard Grennel case, which remain somewhat murky but clear enough to make Romney look very bad. The way it's been reported holds that the campaign essentially benched Grennel to avoid stoking the controversy he was stoking among the i...
Talking Politics - May 3 - 9 clicks
in the redrawn 24th Middlesex House District, Arlington's own Sue Sheffler formerly a maacher on the School Committee has pulled papers to run for the seat . The district has been redrawn to include Arlington Precinct's 8, 10 & 12 all known for heavy democratic turnout. So presumably, Sheffler starts with a strong geographic base within the district. She also benefits from a field that seems ...
Chimes at Midnight - May 3 - 7 clicks
As the House and Senate get close to releasing their versions of comprehensive payment and delivery reform legislation, the Campaign For Better Care, with the help of students from the Harvard School of Public Health, will be doing a series … Continue reading → ...
A Healthy Blog - May 3 - 5 clicks
Scott Brown is clearly anxious to talk about something other than his campaign benefactors . Elizabeth Warren is apparently eager to help . The presumptive Democratic U.S Senate nominee poured gasoline on a fire started by Brown over Warren's listing herself as part Native-American in a law school directory: “I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would b...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 3 - 4 clicks
As the House and Senate get close to releasing their versions of comprehensive payment and delivery reform legislation, the Campaign For Better Care, with the help of students from the Harvard School of Public Health, will be doing a series … Continue reading → ...
A Healthy Blog - May 2 - 4 clicks
Scott Brown has a growing Obama problem that threatens to derail his campaign. It’s a problem of his own making, but he is caught between a rock and a hard place. As he tries to make the case to Massachusetts voters of how bipartisan he is, touting his pride in working with President Obama, he is at the same time promising to his corporate special interest and anti-Obama donors, as well as rig...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - May 2 - 6 clicks
Columnista Brian McGrory has been railing against the excessive executive compensation packages prevalent at Libery Mutual Insurance Company. All well and good, as far as Humble Elias is concerned, however it is worth noting that shame and humiliation and sarcasm are all the favorite weapons of the Punditariat and they are blunted edged weapons at that. Over and above Liberty Mutual's fleet of lux...
Chimes at Midnight - May 2 - 6 clicks
As the House and Senate get close to releasing their versions of comprehensive payment and delivery reform legislation, the Campaign For Better Care, with the help of students from the Harvard School of Public Health, will be doing a … Continue reading → ...
A Healthy Blog - May 2 - 4 clicks
Beware of Bielats bearing polls. That should be basic common sense for political reporters and editors after the 2010 congressional race between Barney Frank and Sean Bielat, when the challenger touted polls showing him closing in or leading the incumbent. Even though we all know how that turned out, the once-and-future GOP hopeful (should he win the primary) is at it again , aided and abette...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 2 - 6 clicks
In our series of MA 3rd Middlesex Senate race, Joe Kearns Goodwin jumped into the contest. While only 34, he was campaign manager for State Rep. Cory Atkins before the Army and two battlefronts. He’s in Harvard Law now and fairly gushing with ideas on jobs, the larger economy, clean energy and more. He joins [...]...
Left Ahead! - May 2 - 4 clicks
ELIZABETH WARREN: “Scott Brown campaigned against health care reform and when he got the Senate he voted to block health care reform. We just learned today back in Mass that he is using that same health care reform act to make sure that his adult daughter gets covered on his health insurance policy, at the same moment he wants to repeal it for everyone else,” she said. “This is wron...
DailyKos (Massachusetts) - May 1 - 5 clicks
An openly gay man ostentatiously appointed National Security Spokesman for the Romney Campaign, has resigned his position allegedly under pressure from the usual suspects, after a scant two weeks on the job. Well...Did anyone expect a different outcome here? Mitt Romney cannot effect outreach to gun worshippers without making a horse's ass of himself, a symbolic gesture towards the gay co...
Chimes at Midnight - May 1 - 6 clicks
Ryan and Mike were at elections 2012 again. We recapped the more inane blunders of the GOP, in Congress as well as Mitt Romney. We left the state legislatures and governors alone this week. Ryan believes voters will start to pay attention a few weeks before the general election. He is sanguine enough to think [...]...
Left Ahead! - May 1 - 5 clicks
Which is more important: Whether Elizabeth Warren is 1/32 Native American ? Or that she represented an insurance company at the Supreme Court? Despite the Herald's breathless coverage of Warren's family tree, I'd clearly opt for today's Globe look at her counsel to Travelers Insurance in a 2009 case involving asbestos trust funds. On the surface, it's not a great looking way to make a buck for...
Massachusetts Liberal - May 1 - 5 clicks
