Turns out your Republican Governor is holding up all that money you were supposed to get for building out broadband. Bummer.
https://backchannel.com/who-is-killing-the-towns-of-western-massachusetts-5dcf6bcd770#.d5y6dp67r

The headlines were full of reporting on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the impact of repeal of the ACA (aka Obamacare). You can find the Report here: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371Read more... )

Shabos is now over. Need to get out and do stuff.

goldsquare Would have loved to have gotten together, but I don't think it works. Am seeing parents Sunday so perhaps next time.

Hal Singer writes this in Forbes on why he thinks we (a) should get rid of Title II classification for broadband, and (b) modify net neutrality to include edge platforms (Google, Apple, Facebook) to address their power to favor their own content/services ( Read more... )

Republican Senators who have expressed serious "concerns" about repeal and replace. These are: Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of KY, Robert Corker and Lamar Alexander, both of TN, and Tom Cotton of Arkansas ( Read more... )

Yet I can't get over the fact that this town is named "Whitefish." Because seriously, is there a nearby town named "bagel" or "matjes ( Read more... )

A good article summarizing a bunch of the research ( Read more... )

Increasingly, as I read political science studies and political science articles, I lose respect for political science as a field. Why? Because it is increasingly divorced from actual politics. It has become a beaching ground for behavioral theorists and economists who apparently found those departments at their university of choice full ( Read more... )

I am a wealthy white guy in a major urban area. Even so, I will probably be screwed over by the "repeal and replace" Obamacare strategy Republicans just agreed to ( Read more... )

This is actually a very interesting interview with Alexander Zaitchik, author of a new book called Gilded Rage ( Read more... )