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    • Bush speaks on Global Warming! Here it is! Thanks to Oliver Willis.
    • Wall Street Journal to MA: Freeze to death So, the wise men of the Wall Street Journal editorial page (who, wags have said, don't read the actual fine reporting of that paper) have upbraided Rep. William Delahunt and...
    • "Give. Me. A. Break." Mike Wallace was on WBUR's On Point this morning. You simply must hear the one question that he would ask George Bush. I won't transcribe it, but start listening to...
    • Tim Murray in the Lt. Gov. race? Mariposa at Beyond 495 calls our attention to a most interesting tidbit in a holiday party invitation sent out by DDemDispatch: the invite notes that Worcester Mayor Tim Murray has...
    • A Teacher Runs in Foxborough An important update in the 1st Bristol race from Cos. --David There's a Democrat running in the 1st Bristol special election, but it's not Feeney. The Sun-Chronicle reported last week...
    • Bush Closes in On One Year Off W., who already holds the record for most vacation days ever taken by a President, is closing on a full year of R&R as the death toll in Iraq mounts,...
    • Candidate Questionnaires in the Somerville special election PDS member Cos reports on PDS's questionnaires and upcoming candidates forum for the State House seat vacated by Pat Jehlen's move to the Senate. --David The Progressive Democrats of Somerville...
    • More Patrick campaign tea leaves .08 acres points to this Adrian Walker column about Deval Patrick, which makes this intriguing comment: "I had called after reading that one of his top consultants, Dan Payne, had...
    • Cashing in their chips Now this is cool ... er, warm: Mt. Wachusett Community College has reduced its heating costs and CO2 output by switching to wood chips and other biomass fuels: Instead of...
    • Open Document, Insert Foot II: Electric Boogaloo Globe reports that the Romney administration is investigating Peter Quinn, director of the Informational Technology Division, for not getting permission to go to some out-of-state conferences: Romney administration officials are...

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    • November 22, 2005 | 2006 and local blogs
    Linked from Political Wire, Kari Chisholm of Mandate Media has a post about the potential importance of political blogs in the '06 elections. Mandate Media runs the indispensible LeftyBlogs site,...

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (2)

    The Delahunt-Chavez deal: what's the problem, exactly?
    What a fascinating story this is. Congressman Bill Delahunt (D-Quincy) has personally cut a deal with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to provide millions of gallons of low-cost heating oil, to...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (9)

    November 20, 2005 | Today, RFK would have been 80
    Wes F. and David Eisenthal have reminded us that today would have been Bobby Kennedy's 80th birthday. Here's a site dedicated to him. I'll just chime in with my thoughts....

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (4)

    November 19, 2005 | Return on Community Investment
    Len Stewart of Cape Cod Works has a must-read post on how we must look at any health care reform: It's an investment in our community, which will bear real...

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (5)

    Get your Lowell on
    In the House brouhaha (ballyhoo, balderdash) from yesterday, Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Lowell) reacted to Rep. Jean Schmidt calling a Bronze Star Marine a coward: "You guys are pathetic! Pathetic!" Now...

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (3)

    November 18, 2005 | What do you guys actually look like, anyway?
    Thanks in large part to the amazing organizational efforts of Lynne at LeftInLowell, we are about three weeks away from what promises to be a watershed event in the nascent...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (5)

    November 17, 2005 | Freep this poll!
    Boston Business Journal is hosting an online poll asking whether businesses should have to "pay or play" with respect to health care - that is, whether they should either have...

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    How the (House) employer mandate works
    Another Greater Boston Interfaith Organization .pdf, drawn up in conjunction with the Business Leaders for Real Health Reform, describes the employer mandate thusly: The $160 million employer tax is eliminated....

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (1)

    Travis retires
    Well, conservative ol' cuss Rep. Phil Travis (D-Rehoboth) is out next year. He was one of the major opponents of gay marriage, and is throwing in the towel. My favorite...

    By Charley on the MTA | Read Article | Comments (4)

    Health Care: Gut check for the Guv
    So, Our Guv has decided to postpone his decision about whether to run for re-election until after the health care debate shakes out. Supposedly that makes him "more relevant" to...

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