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Mass. lawmakers to hold hearing on gas tax bills
By Associated Press |
Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing a series of bills that would hike the state's gasoline tax.
The gas tax, currently 23.5 cents, would increase by 50 cents under one proposal to help cover the Massachusetts Turnpike's Big [...]
Last year we had a significant loss in California to Prop. 8. This November we had another startling loss in Maine with Question 1. Now on the heels of our most recent loss in New York I have to ask the public, have you seen enough yet [...]
Damn the science: full speed ahead
According to a Fox News story today, the EPA is set as soon as tomorrow to “officially declare carbon dioxide a public danger, a trigger that could mean regulation for emitters across the economy”.
And since every living being is an emission source for [...]
Yesterday's Lowell Sun endorsed Republican Scott Brown for United States Senate in the Republican Primary. In a shocker they refused to endorse any of the four Democrats! Their editors did not hold much back and in my opinion are foreshadowing a Scott Brown general election endorsement.
Gubernatorial Race
Charlie Baker (R): $85,750 in four deposits this week. The monthly report is out and Charlie Raised $528k, spent $238k, and had $1.13M in the bank. [...]
A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub’s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot [...]
Here’s the pandering Pan Pacific President, truly a Podesta puppet.Everybody would have learned Japanese or German without spending money at the Berlitz [...]
In 2006 Massachusetts progressives carried a sub-prime mortgage lender to victory in the state’s gubernatorial election, essentially heralding the collapse of the mortgage bubble. One wonders what disaster their choice of candidate in the senate race will foretell?
[...]Do you want to know what our liberal politicians see/sense?
Watch the video and follow the directions exactly.Gorebots probably see the world the same way. No more guessing! [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. — A new feature on the state labor department’s Web site is aimed at making it easier for unemployment insurance claimants to determine how long they can receive benefits. [snip]
VT Department of Labor Unveils New Benefits Tool Putting Vermonters to workFor the rest of us,
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Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free [...]
Republican Scott Brown's campaign for U.S. Senate has hit upon a new strategy: lock voters in by getting as many of them as possible to vote absentee -- and by [...]
At the school complex tonite at 6:00 will be the lighting of the Christmas lights at the Lakeview Ave schools.
All afternoon, Santa will be at Harmony Hall, oversee the Rotary Club gingerbread house competition from 11:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. being held by the Dracut Rotary to support the Food [...]
The payroll and employment report from Bureau of Labor Statistics for November 2009 suggest that the US economy is entering a so-called V-shaped recovery, rather than a slower and more painful U- or W-shaped one.
Not only were only 11,000 jobs lost last month, the figure for October was revised upwards. [...]
He/she has the idepogy we need that reflects [...]
Swiss enforce a new zoning regulation which offends the Times naturally.
GENEVA — In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country’s reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the [...]
Islamic militants in Somalia have [...]
1) Does Al Gore have to give back the money if global warming is proven to be a sham? It was 70 yesterday.
2) Does President Obama have to give back the Nobel Peace Prize now that he is escalating our involvement [...]
Both campaigns have confirmed that they will attend the debate.
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The video-op ed was published today by the Fall River Herald News at http://www.heraldnews.com/opin...
The printed version may just be appearing in [...]
On Monday Governor Patrick signed legislation that provided for regulation of mixed martial arts events in the Commonwealth. The legislation makes Massachusetts the 42nd state in the union to regulate MMA events like UFC.
MMA events were taking place at' [...]
A slap in the face with a wet branch is as suitable as the customary mackerel. Work just as well! [...]
Gingrich must have had his own copy of the speech; it doesn’t match with what I heard from the ONE’s mouth.
According to the Organizing Commander, we’re marching in the front door at port arms, down the hall and out the back door at sling arms. Maybe worse, it could [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — Tension between Police Chief Kevin Richardson and police union leader Jerry Flynn will not be smoothed over by yesterday’s release of Richardson’s report into allegations that his off-duty deputy chief was intoxicated while responding to a domestic incident.
Richardson cleared Deputy Chief Dave Chartrand of [...]
By Erin Smith, esmith@lowellsun.com
DRACUT — School officials are preparing to make deep budget cuts, and Parker Avenue Elementary School parents aren’t happy that the elementary school could end up on the chopping block.
Superintendent W. Spencer Mullin said he expects the state to cut its funding [...]
A meeting was held last evening (reported in the Lowell Sun) at the high school to ask input from the public regarding the possible closing of the Parker Avenue Elementary School.
Led by School Committee members Ron Mercier and Bonnie Elie, the subcommittee [...]
The editors of RMG are proud to announce that we unanimously endorse Scott Brown for US Senate in this special election.
It is not our custom at RMG to unanimously endorse anyone in primaries but this was a rare instance where we all agreed. We asked the four [...]
Bobby Bowden, the head football coach at Florida State University since 1976, has announced his retirement, effective after the Seminoles play their upcoming bowl game. As head coach, his career includes 4 years at Samford College (his alma mater, then named Howard College), 6 years at West Virginia, [...]
In the Empire Strikes Back fear and hate is personified by a tyrannical sith lord. In the Empire State tyranny took a less obvious but no less evil form today as the New York Senate voted 38 to 24 against marriage equality. [...]
The opening to Yvonne Abraham's latest [...]
To City Manager and Council,
I'm concerned that the elected officials only care about short term elections and appeasing the majority of homeowners (voters) in Worcester, instead of paying attention to the long' [...]
The district is currently represented [...]
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 during a joint session of the Massachusetts Legislature Se. Richard Tisei voted for the following Constitutional Amendment:
The Selectmen met for a quick 30 min meeting. No new business, little old.
A whole bunch of business, games and other licenses were renewed for another year (I would have thought there would of been some discussion regarding businesses that had served minors and been punished during the year).
It [...]
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 … so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers,” Obama will say, according to excerpts from his speech at the U.S. Military Academy [...]
#21:
Charlie Baker has unveiled his pension reform plan that he says would save the Massachusetts Taxpayers at least $50 million per year. Here are some of the highlights:
Cap individual pensions at $90,000 per year. Calculate pensions over entire career, not top 3 years. Mandate 10 year minimum [...]After a long hiatus on account of my wedding to a fellow RMGer, I am back and more opinionated than ever! Expect big things from me over the coming months...
In this video, I was inspired by scientific fraud of ClimateGate and the subsequent global cooling of public [...]
While I’ll probably be watching the Board of Selectmen’s meeting, either in person or via the Tivo, Dracut’s heart will be in Reading watching our team hopefully win in the playoff game.
The Boston Globe predicts a win for our boys:
Dracut over Reading - The Middies have [...]
Last year when the Springfield City Council approved permitting for a biomass energy plant in East Springfield, the news passed largely unnoticed by residents in the communities surrounding the proposed plant site.
The Council vote was 7 in favor and 2 against, with city [...]
Over the past 2 decades Republicans have been asked to sacrifice a lot in state government. We have watched our Party's platform dwindle into arguably a single plank of tax cuts. We have been asked to accept nominees we disagree with on many issues all in the name' [...] From the BLOG BRIEFING ROOM
The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the [...]
I'm the last person who would advocate for governmental restrictions on an individual's right to free speech, but would it be too much to ask for a ban on all future use of the suffixes "-gate" and "-palooza"?' [...] The U.S. Government is sending 3 U.S. Navy Seals that captured a suspected terrorist to court martial for completing their mission.
Here are my thoughts on this injustice:
The only planned meeting of the Board of Selectmen is Tuesday evening this week.
It was moved up because of the election next week.
The agenda includes approval of all the licenses in town, as well as another cell tower discussion.. looks like a lot of fun…
The meeting is posted at the [...]
This does not consist of gold, but of knowledge.
Voids in weak areas are filled by surrounding oneself with persons with expertise in one’s deficiencies.Of course, one must [...]
If you didn't overdose on turkey or punch one of your relatives in the throat because they brought up ObamaCare at Thanksgiving dinner then you will likely be killed by a pack of wild rabid coyotes who have grown tired of puppies blood.
Cape Cod Times
Scientologists' [...]
The name “Pemaquid” is said to have had its origins in an Abenaki Indian word for “situated far out.”
Immigrants from Bristol, England, established a settlement at Pemaquid in 1631. The village had as many as 200 people by the 1670s, but Abenaki Indians burned it during [...]
Ha! After I read this article I came up with some of my own answers.
Understanding the pros and cons of health overhaul
Q: How many people would be covered?
A: The Senate bill would cover 94 percent of eligible Americans under age 65; under the House bill, it’s 96 percent.
That’s a [...]
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WHILE ADS for the four Democratic candidates for US Senate have dominated the airwaves in recent weeks, it's a good sign for two-party politics in Massachusetts that Republicans, too, have a contested primary Dec. 8. In this two-candidate race, the clear choice is Scott Brown.
Brown, a [...]
Today we hear that much of the original data used to prove “climate change,” “global warming,” hoo haa has been lost.
The Times Online reports today:
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming [...]
Last week I contacted John Kerry's office. They were gracious enough to offer a statement for the initial piece I wrote on what has become known as climate gate. His statement while gracious, parroted the line the left has used time and time again against "Global Warming" skeptics, [...] 
I am going on Pundit Review Radio on WRKO tonight. We'll be discussing local races.
So here we are, almost the end of the year 2009, and life is good. Up in my neck of the woods, New Hampshire, we’re just getting cold and winter is knocking on our door. It’s been a good fall with lots of warm days [...]
During a discussion with School Committee Chair Matt Sheehan on 980 WCAP, we discussed a number of items concerning the school district.
First, he was asked about the hiring process used for the new Principal. He said that he heard after a previous school [...]
Otherwise, however, not much is happening with global warming at the moment. The Earth's average temperatures have stopped climbing since [...]
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