Why is it that all liberal media, as well as the “experts” interviewed daily on NPR and Democracy Now, keep saying that “what we need is ‘Medicare for all’.” They repeatedly identify Medicare as the successful US “single-payer” program preferred by all its participants.
On the weekend of July 23-25, 2004 over 5,000 progressives from across the region, nation and world gathered at UMass Boston for the Boston Social Forum - three days of discussion, debate and cultural events staged right before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, which also took place in ou
Yesterday, Tuesday July 21st, the Senate voted, with a tally of 58-40, to cut $1.75 billion in wasteful spending on F-22 fighter jets from the Defense Authorization Bill.
BOSTON/Fort Point - Since June 12, the Odysseus Project has been on display at the gallery Art @ 12 in Fort Point. The exhibit, featuring "work by artists and veteran-artists focusing on issues of war and the experience of veterans returning home," will run until July 25. The project is the vision of organizer and co-curator Anne Loyer, a film-maker and multimedia artist who wanted to offer artists a forum to creatively communicate their opinions and reactions to wartime experiences.
Gov. Deval Patrick let his conservative side out to play again this week with his proposal to double the amount of state education money that can be spent on public charter schools.
BOSTON/Government Center - A large conference room at the 100 Cambridge St. headquarters of the Mass.
Google last week announced the existence of a project that will bring its own operating system to netbook computers in the second half of 2010.
As women’s health educators and advocates for nearly 4 decades (we are best known for the landmark book Our Bodies, Ourselves, which now appears in 24 foreign editions), Our Bodies Ourselves urges everyone to contact colleagues and friends whose Congressional representatives are Blue Dog Democra
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Dear Mr. Grabauskas,
Everyone here at Open Media Boston was shocked and saddened to hear this week's announcement that the Bay State Banner suspended publication this week - possibly forever, if new investors don't step foward.