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• Furlough or money

  —Massachusetts Liberal

  I may be arriving a little late to this one, but I think the Herald has struck upon a nifty idea: if legislators won't come back into formal session until January, why not take a week of their vacation as an unpaid furlough like many of the commonwealth's [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:12am EST
  

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• Monday Morning Miscellany

  —CriticalMass

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  Massachusetts Lawmakers Working Second Jobs. Fox 25 Boston reports this morning on a number of Massachusetts legislators whose 'second jobs' might pose conflicts with their obligations as members of the Legislature with influence over the state budget. While I agree that several of the examples highlighted by Fox raise [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:13am EST
  by Dan

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• Massachusetts Legislators Prefessions

  —Red Mass Group - Front Page

  
  Bob Slydell: What would you say ya do here? A comment by Cool Cal got me thinking.  What do Massachusetts Legislators do for a living?  Personally, I have always preferred a citizen legislature and not a professional (hack) legislature.  I support reducing government payroll (and pensions) [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:00pm EST
  

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• AARP Supports Two HCFA Quality Bills

  —A Healthy Blog

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  The September 1 Massachusetts AARP Bulletin featured a story about legislation in Massachusetts seeking to prevent hospital infections and seeking to reduce the overuse of CT scans. Health Care For All worked with Massachusetts legislators to introduce both of these bills. H. 2139, filed by Representative Denise Provost, requires hospital [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:25pm EST
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• Rep. Lynch, Please Get w/ The Program

  —Blue Mass. Group

  Being from MA can be sort of a let down during big, national progressive battles. Whenever I see the "please contact these legislators" lists, I tend to scan through, just to catch a surprising name from some OTHER state.

  Well, imagine my shame when such a list appeared on DKos [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 4:06pm EST
  

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• Maine gets it right

  —New England Republican

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  Social engineering laws of all stripe are in the province of the electorate. Legislators proved to be open to bribes, graft, pressure and outright pusillanimity by circumventing the will of the voters, producing a tyranny of the minority.

  The Constitutions of the US and the States are limited in scope [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:31am EST
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• State Legislators Fight Back on 9C Cuts/ Unfunded Mandates

  —Red Mass Group - Front Page

  The following letter that was sent to Deval Patrick today was forwarded to me via email.

  October 30, 2009

  His Excellency Deval L. Patrick

  Governor of the Commonwealth

  Room 360, State House

  Boston, MA 02133

  RE: 9c Cut to Local Aid - Regional School Transportation Account 7035-0006

  Dear Governor Patrick,

             We write [...]

  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
  

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