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Menino Trashes MassVote , snubs voters – all in one day!

thirstybear39 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:26 -0400

In a story that ran in today's Boston Herald, Mayor Menino's campaign trashed a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to provide voters with the resources they need for civic engagement. The organization, MassVote, works to increase voter education and turnout amongst communities of color, youth, the disabled and in ethnic communities where language is a barrier. Since its creation in 1999, MassVote has helped empower thousands of Massachusetts voters.

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Interesting Convo

jr5849 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:08:33 -0400

http://www.bluemassgroup.com/diary/16125/flaherty-good-better-now-it-makes-sense

Specific city layoffs threatened

neilv — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:28:49 -0400

Globe reports:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino today will propose laying off 565 city workers, including public school teachers, police officers, and librarians, cutbacks that Boston officials said are needed to help balance the $2.4 billion city budget. [...] Signori said that if more unions agree to wage freezes and if stimulus money arrives in time, some jobs slated for elimination in the mayor's budget could be saved.

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Metro Moments with Mumbles

Brett — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:24:50 -0500

Yesterday's installment of Metro Moments with the Mayor has two juicy gems. First, Mumbles tackles Verizon FiOS, or more appropriately, The Internet Service You Can't Get in The Technology Center of The East Coast. Second: he wants $50-100k red light cameras. Ahh, Massachusetts, where the answer to everything is civil fines.

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