The AP reports that the Mass House of Representatives is watering down the anti-bully bill, as compared to the Senate bill. The Globe's Jenna Russell also reports on the story.
Governor Patrick seemed to do well in his online chat yesterday. The Herald's Margery Eagan provides her take. So does Jessica van Sack and the State House News Service's Kyle Cheney. I'd also like to point out that I'm not an English major and I still strive for correct pronunciation. Even over instant messenger! So, I don't believe that's necessarily proof that Governor Patrick had a set of canned responses. I mean, sure, he had talking points, but I believe he typed everything.
The AP's Steve LeBlanc reports on more trouble for Mihos: Joe Manzoli, who quit recently, is now suing Mihos for unpaid salary. I just keep hearing more and more trouble from the Mihos campaign. I'm worried he's going to destroy his personal fortune to run and lose. The Globe's Michael Levenson and the Cape Cod Times' Jake Berry have more. Red Mass Group's Rob Eno wonders if this is the last nail in the coffin for the campaign.
The Herald's Jay Fitzgerald is reporting that Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA 9) is warning Speaker Pelosi that he will not vote for the Senate bill, nor will he support the controversial self-executing rule that would allow the House to patch the Senate bill that he disagrees with so much.
The Globe's Matt Viser blogs that Representative Ed Markey (D-MA 7) is introducing a new bill to expand broadband internet access.
And Senator Brown (R-MA) will be the keynote speaker at the state's GOP convention, reports Conor Yunits. Nobody should be surprised.
WBUR's Steve Brown reports that a bill to repeal the holidays of Evacuation Day and Bunker Hill Day are both in "legislative purgatory" for now. I think he means limbo. Mayor Menino defends the holidays, claiming that they are "important to the formation of Boston." File that under "Proponents of holidays who get those holidays off."
Fox reports on yesterday's holiday. Governor Patrick insists that if a bill to repeal the holidays comes to him, he'll sign it. Fox also reports on the people who showed up to work yesterday: Republican legislators and the governor. Kyle Cheney and Gintautas Dumcius were also working in the State House yesterday (as SHNS reporters), reporting on what the Republicans were talking about: job creation. The Outraged Liberal comments on the photo op of closed Democrat offices and open Republican ones. Frankly, the state GOP should take to calling Election Day "Evacuation Day II". 'Cause if the Dems keep this up, the state will throw them out in November, much like the Brits were thrown out.
The Herald's Thomas Grillo reports that a new poll shows that 58% of Massachusetts residents are in favor of DeLeo's casino plan.
David Bernstein considers the effects of the Big Dig on the 2010 election season in this week's Phoenix.
Blue Mass Group's David Kravitz determines that Cahill's recent stand against healthcare is to the right of the leading Republican candidate Charlie Baker and conservative darling Scott Brown.
Fox's Gene Lavanchy and the Herald's Laurel Sweet report that a judge has ruled to let Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner have separate trials in their corruption cases.
WBUR's Fred Thys, Curt Nickisch, and Deborah Becker report on the effects of budget cuts in three cities outside of Boston: Salem, Needham, and Hull.
The AP reports that developer Don Chiofaro refuses to build his skyscrapers until Boston scraps planned height limitations that make skyscrapers economically unfeasible.
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2 comments:
"I'd also like to point out that I'm not an English major and I still strive for correct pronunciation. Even over instant messenger! So, I don't believe that's necessarily proof that Governor Patrick had a set of canned responses. I mean, sure, he had talking points, but I believe he typed everything."
Point of clarification: the person who wrote about punctuation being too perfect to be "real" was referring to the questions being asked, not the Governor's responses to same.
Ah. My mistake. All the articles took their time to write about the Governor's flawless grammar, so that was the context I wrote in.
Two points then:
1. The questions were submitted before the livechat, as I recall, so there was time for the Herald to edit them for grammar.
2. Was someone really accusing the Herald of all papers of pitching softballs to the Democratic Governor?
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