Mar
31
Niki Tsongas Holding “Telephone” Town Hall
March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments
Congresswoman Niki Tsongas is holding a “telephone” town hall meeting tonight which will focus on the recently passed Health Care Reform bill. It is, in essence, a large conference call, with the Congresswoman will make a presentation, and I believe will take questions from the participants. The call will begin at 7:00 p.m.
The phone [...]
Mar
30
The City of Methuen, along with its design team of Finegold Alexander and Owners Project Manager KBA/Trident, made a presentation to the Massachusetts School Building Authority a few weeks back on the progress of the schematic design for our High School. We will be making a final presentation on May 26th and hopefully receiving [...]
Mar
29
Social Security Takes a Turn for Worse
March 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Social Security Trust Fund appears to be on course to pay out in benefits more than it takes in this year, something that projections had estimated would happen in 2016. A recent New York Times article detailed the quicker than anticipated decline.
Analysts have long tried to predict the year when Social Security would [...]
Mar
27
Elsy Naveo is March S.O.A.R. Award Winner
March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Elsy Naveo
Reason(s) for Recognition: Elsy Naveo is currently enrolled in French IV Honors at Methuen High School. This year, she was inducted into the French Foreign Language Honor Society for outstanding performance in the language. Elsy is a highly gifted student of foreign languages. A native speaker of Spanish, Elsy chose to high road four [...]
Mar
27
The President on Student Loan and Health Reform
March 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
The President talks about reform in the student loan area, promoting a program that will save taxpayers many billions of dollars. He also continues his health care victory lap!
Mar
26
Charlie Baker on Municipal Health Care
March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Charlie Baker released his municipal health care plan yesterday, and it bears close resemblance to the plan put out by the new Mayor’s coalition. Baker is trying to seize some fertile political ground, and has even adopted our call for a referendum in 2012 if legislative action is not forthcoming. It is the correct position, [...]
Mar
25
Pangy Out and In at the Same Time
March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Senate Chair of Ways and Means, (the great and powerful) Steve Panagiotakos has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election to his State Senate seat. This is a huge loss for his Senate District, and for the Commonwealth as well. Senator Panagiotakos has been, in my opinion, a truly outstanding Senator. [...]
Mar
25
Rubio and Crist Slug it Out
March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Florida Senate race has taken a dramatic turn, with conservative Marco Rubio opening a substantial lead over Governor Charlie Crist. Crist was a huge favorite coming into the race, but Rubio has tapped into conservative revulsion at Crist endorsing President Obama’s stimulus package. Rubio has become a nationwide conservative favorite, and he has put [...]
Mar
24
Obama’s Waterloo?
March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A very interesting post by David Frum, in which the former Bush speech-writer heavily criticized the Republican leadership for tactics that led to a huge Democratic victory on health care. Frum pointed out that Republicans, by stoking and playing to the anger, left its leaders in a position where a real deal on health care [...]
Mar
23
METHUEN CITY WEBSITE WINS COMMON CAUSE AWARD WITH DISTINCTION
City’s Informative Website Honored for Fourth Consecutive Year
The Massachusetts Campaign for Open Government (commoncause.org/egov), a project of the non-partisan group Common Cause, has long championed the cause of increased internet access to important governance public records. As part of this initiative, the group annually examines the [...]