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The Globe is reporting in a “Political Intelligence” on-line post by Stephanie Vallejo that State Senator Jamie Eldridge (D) of Acton plans to refile a bill that would lessen the impact in Massachusetts state elections of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United. The recent ruling basically allows…
Read More »www.dailyfinancereport.com via aol.com is reporting an encouraging trend in employment/unemployment nationwide. America’s bedraggled labor market got a boost today with the latest weekly initial jobless claims unexpectedly plunging 21,000 to 434,000 — their lowest level since July. A Bloomberg survey had expected the report to show a total of 455,000…
Read More »Read the following from Henry A. Giroux, and get a sense of the outrage on the other side of the political spectrum, the side that hasn’t been given the kind of free publicity by media outlets everywhere that the Tea Party has received in the past six months. A moderate-minded reader might consider…
Read More »His name is Jimmy McMillan and he is running for governor of New York as the nominee of the “Rent is Too Damn High” Party. And even with heavy hitters little Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino on the stage, Jimmy steals the show. McMillan, nicknamed Rambo, Papa Smurf, and The…
Read More »“All the President’s Men” is one of my favorite movies, and I believe the dynamic duo of “Woodstein” should be remembered with a statue on the mall in Washington, DC, some day, but I’m not a fan of the Washington insider books that Bob Woodward has been churning out for…
Read More »Senator Scott Brown, you should be ashamed of yourself. Yesterday afternoon while driving home from work I heard this radio ad below on WRKO. It is Scott Brown reaffirming his support for Republican congressional candidate, Jeff Perry. Yes, the same Jeff Perry that did nothing while a fourteen year old…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, recently urged readers to vote NO on Question 1 and NO on Question 2 in the upcoming state election. Today he tackles Question 3 concerning the…
Read More »Ten days ago I traveled to Houston to attend the funeral of Medal of Honor recipient and Lowell native David McNerney. There’s a hotly contested race for governor down there between Republican incumbent Rick Perry and Democratic challenger Bill White, so during my 48 hours in the Lone Star State,…
Read More »As Dick posted last night AP reporter Glen Johnson uncovered a memo written in 1998 by gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, then Governor Paul Cellucci’s Director of Administration and Finance. Here are several astounding quotes taken directly from Johnson’s article: As he concluded his tenure as budget chief in Massachusetts, Republican…
Read More »The Associated Press has come into possession (in the person of former Lowell Sun reporter Glen Johnson according to Blue Mass Group) of a memo written while Baker was the state’s Secretary of Administration and Finance that documented for his then boss, Governor Paul Cellucci, the runaway spending of the…
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