Waltham residents turned out and stirred up some “Good Trouble” as they protested the callous actions of ICE and Trump. ICE’s tactics were meant to scare us. This worked, for a while. But now we’re organizing.
Good Trouble
“They wear masks because they’re ashamed.”
Trump: Good jobs? Good wages? Screw ’em.
I own an EV, so I don’t pay the gas tax. Is that fair?
MIT professors are pushing for new policy ideas
Thank you, MIT, for driving climate and transportation policy innovation in Massachusetts. Joining me at the State Senate rostrum after testifying on behalf of my “vehicle miles traveled” funding reform they conceived were Gib Metcalf, Visiting Professor of Economics; Bethany Patten, Executive Director of the MIT Climate Policy Center; and Chris Knittel, George P. Schultz Professor of Applied Economics and Director, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR).
In which the Waltham Land Trust endorses lemonade and I stand with them.
Good climate policy in Mass. will outlast the Trump era. Here’s how that works.
“In enforcing new climate law, a dispute over the ‘obligation to serve’ natural gas customers”
Commonwealth Beacon
MA Legislature to gas utilities: Good news. We’ve ended the anti-competitive tilt towards natural gas in MA law. Your “obligation to serve” only fossil fuel is over.
My constituents are cord-cutting. Fine. But let’s do this too.
Ran into a familiar face at the State House
Walking through the State House today, who should I encounter but Matt Boger of New England Donor Services, on a visit with medical students interested in both the role of New England Donor and the world of the State House. We do set health policy, ya know, and it needs more input from doctors.
