Tag Archives: Massachusetts

Should Massachusetts Change Time Zones?

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

From Florida to Alaska, the time might be up for daylight-saving time. Via Arian Campo-Flores’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition piece yesterday : Daylight-Saving Time Gets Old Fed up with the annual routine of moving clocks ahead in spring and back in fall, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arian Campo-Flores, Atlantic Time, Barbara Mende, Cognoscenti, daylight-saving time, DST, Massachusetts, S 2040, Sen. John Keenan, Time Zone Report, Tom Emswiler, US Department of Transportation, Wall Street Journal, WBUR, WBUR Cognoscenti, WCVB | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging The Boston Sunday Globe

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The hardreading staff yields to no man in its respect for the journalism at the Boston Globe. But this Sunday’s edition struck us as a bit odd. Page One, via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: The Medicare windfall piece? Excellent. Then there’s the Camp Menino feature, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Camp Menino, Edge of America, Geoff Edgers, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, John F. O'Brien, Massachusetts, Medicare windfall, New England Law, Parkman House, The Newseum, Today's Front Pages, Tom Menino, Travel Channel | Leave a comment

New Mass. Law: Straight On Red

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Is it just the harddodging staff, or are Boston drivers much more lunatic about running red lights these days? It’s not even a close call – cars that are hundreds of feet away routinely bust red lights without a second … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Little Help from My Friends, Boston public schools, Joe Cocker, Massachusetts, Scared Straight on Red, straight on red, traffic lights timed by Joe Cocker, Woodstock | 5 Comments

Boston Herald: Put Another Speaker On The Barbie

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Could Massachusetts rack up a felonious fourpeat? From today’s Boston Herald: With three predecessors now felons, House Speaker Robert DeLeo starts this week under a cloud of scrutiny as questions linger from Salvatore DiMasi’s trial and investigators sort through a … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged casinos, columnist-cum-Democratic-lobbyist, Doug Rubin, felonious fourpeat, House Speaker, Massachusetts, Probation Department, Robert DeLeo, Sal DiMasi | 1 Comment

WSJ Union-Busts MA

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From Kimberley Strassel’s Friday Wall Street Journal column: Union Busting, Massachusetts Style The Bay State’s heavily Democratic House strips municipal employee unions of their power to bargain most health benefits. Lede: Pop quiz: What political party, in what state, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged collective-bargaining powers, Kimberley Strassel, Massachusetts, public-sector uniuons, Wall Street Journal | 3 Comments

We’re Number Thirty!

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Saturday New York Times piece: U.S. Bills States $1.3 Billion in Interest Amid Tight Budgets As if states did not have enough on their plates getting their shaky finances in order, a new bill is coming due — from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Dept. of Labor, Massachusetts, New York Times, Payback Time, state interest bills, unemployment benefits | 3 Comments

Concept with a Capital K

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Campaign Outsider

U.S. Senate hopeful Alan Khazei (D-City Year) is trumpeting the endorsement of his candidacy by Max Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy. From Thursday’s Boston Globe report on the gala endorsement: Max Kennedy is endorsing City Year co-founder Alan Khazei … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Khazei, Massachusetts, Max Kennedy, U.S. Senate race | 3 Comments