Word comes from Patrick aide-de-camp Doug Rubin that Gov. Patrick has told the RMV to rescind that $5 fee for talking to a live person, and find other ways to get people to interact with the registry online rather than in person.
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The Herald reports; doesn't say what happened to the kid who wrote Patrick after the governor left the unidentified school.
Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess (and, yes, a Charlie Baker backer), explains why Deval Patrick's attempt to regulate health-insurance premiums will fail because it ignores the monopolistic overhead charged by archrival Partners HealthCare - a factor Coakley noted in a report released just two weeks ago.
Deval Patrick headed for the official state Bunker in Framingham to guide us through the next troubled hours - after he slips into an official state cardigan with which to reassure us on the Emergency Broadcast Network:
The governor is in the (underground) house. Photo by MassDOT Secretary Jeff Mullan.
Fun bunker facts: The surface entrance has a giant steel door leading to a downward hallway built in a zig-zag pattern to repel alpha beta radiation, it sits on giant springs to withstand tremors from nearby nuclear blasts and it has a two-bay refrigerated morgue.
Hokay. She got 2% of the vote as a Green last time around, but apparently Jill Stein already has that nomination sewn up.
The Outraged Liberal was not stirred to action by Deval Patrick's State of the State address last night:
... In a sense, it is commendable Patrick offer hope instead of red meat. But with his political future as the main course in this election year, he needs to channel his own anger at circumstances largely out of his control shattering his plans and reconnect with Massachusetts voters who swept him into office on waves of hope. ...
The first step is admitting he has a problem, the Outraged Liberal advises.
You may recall how Kat Powers pleaded with Deval Patrick's schedulers to get him to meet with GateHouse reporters before she had her baby in March. They delivered.
Photo of the governor and MassDOT Secretary Jeff Mullan checking out Twitter on the Blue Line on the way to Government Center today. By Eugena Ossi/Governor's Office.
Another photo of the current governor at the Governor Center Blue Line stop (on the way back from Wonderland).
When the previous governor rode the T.
Photo posted under this Creative Commons license.
Please, Mr. Patrick, get your schedulers to get on the ball so you can see the reporters and editors at GateHouse New England before March 9:
The Globe reports the Krafts gave as much as they could to Democrats as state officials began applying for $9 million in federal funds to build a pedestrian bridge between parking lots by Patriot Place.
The Outraged Liberal doubts the Krafts were trying to influence that decision, but says: There's no way Deval Patrick wins this one.
They have them in other states. Now Gov. Patrick wants legislation to let cities and towns put cameras atop traffic signals to photograph and fine drivers caught going through red lights.
Interestingly, he put it in his latest proposal to deal with the state's latest fiscal problems - so that's how he's going to soften the blow of cuts in local aid to cities and towns (click on the link, then either scroll down or search on "red light").
Bill would only affect public workers in Suffolk County (question: And Somerville?).
Via David Guarino.
Boston Police relay word of street closings and such for Obama's appearance at the Copley Plaza this afternoon:
It's something I noticed in April of 2008, and wrote again about in March of 2009.
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