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Senator Steven Panagiotakos (D-Lowell) one of the Casino Bill conferees – Photo from BostonHerald.com Just in from the Globe MetroDesk: House and Senate leaders have just announced an agreement on a bill to expand gaming in Massachusetts that would authorize three resort casinos and a pair of slot parlors at…
Read More »The embargo broken, Noah Bombard is reporting on the Eagle Tribune blog that fired former Methuen Police Chief Joseph Solomon has won his case with the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission. Solomon was fired over two years ago. This finding must come as a bombshell to Methuen Mayor Bill Manzi. Staff…
Read More »I’ve already written about the economic and environmental costs of failing to deal with climate change. Both phenomena are well understood and the forecast grows increasingly disheartening. However, there’s a third story, a moral one. I’m not talking about the morality of increased incidence of famine, drought, and disease; those…
Read More »The NYT’s Maureen Dowd nails the situation in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Yemen in today’s column. How come they’re only good at fighting us? she asks about the vaunted warrior types of those nations who seem maddeningly slow to form up into national armies charged with fighting the insurgents in…
Read More »On his blog, which I picked up from truth-out.org, economist Robert Reich dissects the issue of a jobless recovery. He explains why corporate profits are rising in some cases, but still not leading to fresh hiring. Read his blog post here.
Read More »E. J. Dionne says the Shirley Sherrod civic car wreck should be enough to wake up the liberals and progressives to the in-your-face tactics of political extremists who are bent on bringing down the Obama administration. No more fake news, no more unfair and unbalanced, no more manufactured conflicts. And if…
Read More »According to a story at SouthCoastToday.com – the Governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island have signed a memorandum of understanding about any development of off-shore wind farms. The Governors see this as a move to protect the interests of both states and to position them to best take advantage of every economic and environmental…
Read More »Uncle Dave is stirring it up again over there at the NYT. Today he’s channeling his young liberal self in a green army jacket who got practical along the way older and turned “kinda conservative.” What’s really going on is that he admires President Obama. He wants to see him…
Read More »It has become common since the beginning of the Tea Party movement to hear Thomas Jefferson’s “Tree of Liberty” letter quoted. Specifically, the sentences about the need for shedding the blood of patriots and tyrants and about the need for a rebellion every twenty years or so. I had always…
Read More »Is anyone surprised by today’s version of the “Pentagon Papers” released in New York, Berlin, and London? I once worked for a guy who had as one of his management aphorisms: “Be careful not to manage a mistake.” When Bush and Cheney took their eyes off the ball in 2003 and shifted…
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