Dropped by the 9th annual Youth Mentoring Day at the State House. The relationships these groups foster are something to behold. Here with AmeriCorps Ambassadors Sylvia Ngo, Johnny Xu and Melissa Ventola.
Will Charlie Baker’s Management Skills Be Enough?
2014 Breaks Heat Record, Challenging Global Warming Skeptics
The New York Times
This just in. Yikes. For the urgent consideration of the new Mass. Legislature, I’m proposing “An Act Combatting Climate Change.” Pollution and health are huge expenses excluded from the prices of “fossil fuels” like coal, oil and natural gas; the taxpayer gets whacked with the expense later on. If you want to reduce emissions, clean the air and cool the planet, ask us Mass. state legislators to go where British Columbia has already gone — to honest full pricing for fossil fuels.
The oil price is just plain wrong
Reuters
Stated plainly but well, the case for helping the planet by putting a price on pollution — meaning on “carbon.”
Baker sworn in as Gov.
Charlie Baker steps away from becoming Governor.
Barrett to Chair Oversight Committee
Swearing In
Mike gets sworn in for his second term as Senator of the 3rd Middlesex District.
Oil’s swoon creates the opening for a carbon tax
The Washington Post
Neat to agree with Larry Summers on something. Tip of the hat to Wayne Davis for spotting this.
Crushing debt part of cycle of poverty, according to report by Crittenton Women’s Union
State House News
“Barrett said there is no evidence that a person’s credit score indicates what type of employee they will make, and he wants to outlaw the practice of employers checking scores. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has filed similar legislation at the federal level.”
