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The Soapbox 2009-12-15 17:40:11

Posted in The Soap Box on Dec 15th, 2009 Comments Off

Here’s another piece of evidence that, among public schools, charters are better than “regular” or district schools. The state’s Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester is calling for revocation of the charter of the Robert M. H…

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Why casinos or higher taxes? Why not both?

Posted in Massachusetts politics, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Dec 8th, 2009 Comments Off

There was our former governor, Michael Dukakis, arguing this week against allowing casinos in Massachusetts. Yeah, he made passing reference to the moral case – we don’t need more addiction – but his real pitch was that the state coul…

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The Soapbox 2009-11-24 17:04:54

Posted in The Soap Box on Nov 24th, 2009 Comments Off

A little lesson in the realities of law enforcement. The North Andover cops, told by a local couple that David Filli, owner of a mortgage company, had taken a $25,000 investment from them and then spent it on personal expenses, “asked” Fill…

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Don’t be in such a Rush

Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Mar 6th, 2009 Comments Off

Supposedly, talk radio megamouth Rush Limbaugh is the best weapon Democrats have. Democratic strategists James Carville and Paul Begala said they discovered in polls conducted last fall that Limbaugh was “deeply unpopular,” particularly amo…

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Bulletin: Dissent no longer patriotic

Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments Off

Remember, not so long ago, when dissent was “patriotic”? Remember when Democrats who favored immediate withdrawal from Iraq – who hoped the U.S. would lose the war because it would make President Bush look bad – would throw tant…

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Big Brother Deval

Posted in Pension Tidal Wave, State issues, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments Off

I didn’t expect, for a moment, that Gov. Deval Patrick would bring anything resembling tax relief to Massachusetts. He never really promised to, anyway. If you listened to what he said during his campaign, it was that if the income tax was reduce…

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Politics of fear reloaded

Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Feb 10th, 2009 Comments Off

How disgusting is it that President Bush is still trying to ram things through Congress with the same, tired old politics of fear? I mean, first it was the weapons of mass destruction, and now it’s that we’re going to sink into an irreversi…

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Ethical clouds? What ethical clouds?

Posted in Massachusetts politics, State issues, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Jan 28th, 2009 Comments Off

If you had any lingering doubts about the Statehouse being a palace of delusion, listen to some of your elected representatives defend their vote for Sal DiMasi as House Speaker, just three weeks before he resigned under an ethical cloud that grows bla…

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The money is in contracts, not ‘efficiencies’

Posted in Local politics, Municipal meltdown, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Jan 5th, 2009 Comments Off

I agree with those who say that the few thousand bucks area school districts spent last November sending their superintendents and some school committee members to a conference on Cape Cod (read about it here) was no big deal – at least when it c…

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Cooler means warmer, said the Mad Hatter

Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Dec 15th, 2008 Comments Off

Lots of stories this week on how President-elect Barack Obama is going to have to do something about global warming in a hurry, because we’re already tipping past the tipping point, according to all credible scientists. The most interesting facto…

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