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Massachusetts progressives working, writing, blogging and speaking for social and political change.

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We'll touch the sundry events and trends in Massachusetts, of which there are many. Lawmakers are looking to a milder version of reducing public unions of bargaining rights for health insurance. The past president of Boston's city... more
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Americans being ourselves, it's not at all hard to believe the myriad bizarre takes on Osama bin Laden's death. We'll chat now, coming up and farther out implications for politics, diplomacy and more. Lasting Obama boost? Justification... more
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Chair of the MA Democratic party joins us to talk, well, politics. With solid results in the fall election, he is looking at big races here, including the U.S. Senate as Scott Brown goes for a full term. MA was not affected by the red tide as much of... more
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The temporary, long overdue, FY2011 budget is absurd. With $39 billion in mandated cuts (less than 8% of that from DoD), it solves no problems. We'll hit on what happened, what didn't and what needs to.
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R.I. is closer to approving SSM than ever, but it's still a hard battle. Ray Sullivan, Marriage Equality Rhode Island, joins us to describe the end game there.
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Union of Minority Neighborhoods Exec. Dir. Horace Small is about addressing the big problems for people of color in Boston and Massachusetts. Incarceration rates, poverty levels, graduation and more. He defines the issues and what the UMN... more
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MA loses a Congressional seat following the 2010 census. We'll kick around the process and make our own conjectures. We go from 10 to 9 seats and no one seems ready to retire...voluntarily. Excitement and tension rule in the state that... more
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We're in it now. For Libya, how smart and necessary was U.S. intervention. France is trigger happy, we've dithered, and Congress is carping.
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One of the Young Turks of Boston's City Council, Rob Consalvo, dives headfirst into the huge housing problems. Head of the housing committee, he creates and drives the fights for affordable housing, foreclosure prevention, even... more
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Pols in live-free-or-die NH want to rip back marriage rights from homosexual couples. Freedom? John Hosty-Grinnell joins us to talk about what has and might happen up there, as well as his and other testimony in legislative hearings.
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