Massachusetts
Orange you glad you don't live in Athol?
By lex.galloway - 2/18/11 - 8:48 amYesterday morning, the ever serious David Bernstein at the Phoenix noted Salem's attempt to get over the whole witchcraft thing with a new municipal slogan and wondered what other towns could adopt as their slogans. Suggestions continue to pour in; here are some of the best (so far):
[rollzroix] Somerville: Like the US, we have three branches of government: 1/3 Mayor, 1/3 Aldermen, 1/3 Pat's Towing
[bokeller12] Boston: lost if by car, late if by T.
554,000 in Massachusetts Struggle to Put Food on the Table
By Project Bread - 11/20/09 - 12:33 pmProject Bread, the state’s leading antihunger organization, released numbers from its upcoming annual status report on hunger in the Commonwealth. The disquieting trends described in this report, caused by high unemployment, point to 554,000 people in the Commonwealth struggling with hunger. Food insecurity has found its way into middle class suburbs and has driven low-income people further into crisis. The report argues for a public health approach and asks that the state continue to bring systemic solutions to scale — especially healthy school and summer food programs for kids.
AIM's 2007-2008 Legislative Scorecard Underscores Need for Improvement in Massachusetts
By anon - 9/5/08 - 2:36 pmAssociated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), the state's largest business advocacy organization with more than 7,000 Bay State businesses and institutions who collectively employ more than 675,000 employees, released the third edition of its biennial Legislative Scorecard. The Scorecard is designed to evaluate the pro-business voting record of each of the members of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives.
Summer Food Program in Dorchester Receives Grants from Project Bread
By brooke_mackinnon - 6/26/08 - 3:38 pmPROJECT BREAD SUPPORTS ‘FOOD AND FUN’ FOR DORCHESTER KIDS THIS SUMMER
$225,900 in statewide grants aim to help families cope with food and gas crisis
June 19, 2008 — EAST BOSTON — When school is out, kids who rely on free or reduced-price school meals need a safe place to go where they can get a healthy meal and have some summer fun. That’s why Project Bread is providing $5,500 in incentive grants to the Summer Food Service Program in Dorchester in an effort to help families cope with the skyrocketing cost of food and gas.
Salem's Last Road
By dmoisan - 5/15/07 - 10:03 pmThe state is building a 1-mile bypass road from Beverly to downtown Salem. Read about it and see the pictures in Salem's Last Road.
Things To Do: Blog
By Boston Cube - 4/25/07 - 5:49 pmFrom the time I was a small child, I was taught to write thank you notes for kindnesses, memorize others’ birthdays and anniversaries, honor the dead, be organized and tidy and evolve into a social creature that takes the time to remember. I think I received my first box of stationery from my mother when I was five. I was reading by three, writing certainly by five, and my mother did take the time to teach me how to write a thank you note. I am still in possession of a few sheets of paper and the lined envelopes my brother’s then girlfriend gave me for my seventeenth birthday.
September 11th
By Alaiyo - 9/13/06 - 8:44 amThis is another trinket received from MySpace. It is one thing to hear about it. It is another thing to see the names and to realize that these were people with lives, hopes and dreams and that they will never come back. It is equally disturbing to know how many of the victims were local to Massachusetts.
Please scroll through and remember.
MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR 2006 CANDIDATE STEVE MACMILLAN 14494 REPUBLICAN
By governor14494 - 8/2/06 - 12:51 pmTHIS CAMPAIGN IS FUNNY I GREW UP IN MILTON NEAR PATRICK HE LIVES NEXT DOOR TO JOE DEBESSE AND NOW LIVE NEAR CHRISTY AND GOT PAID FROM TOM RILEY RECENTLY,AND I HANG AROUND WITH WILLIAM GALVIN THE NEPHEW IN HYANNIS SAME NAME,AND MY GIRL FRIEND CLEANS TEDS HOUSE MANSION FROM BRAZIL SALETE BATISTA AND ISABEL THEY SEE MISTER WILSON THERE INVENTER IN NORWOOD FIRST INETERNET BUILDER NAVY VET STEVE MACMILLAN PO BOX 1114 FORSTDALE MA 02644 I WAS TRAINED BY THE TOUGHEST IN THE NAVY AND PERFECTION WAS A MUST THATS WHAT I BRING TO MASSACHUSETTS I WILL GET THE STATE HOUSE IN SHAPE IN TWO WEEKS LIKE MY DRIL
