On Valentine’s Day the Boston Herald pushed the “great replacement theory,” relying on an unreliable “report” from the Pioneer Institute and a defective “poll” commissioned by the dark money Mass Opportunity Alliance. The story was “Massachusetts economy crashes as state loses domestic residents, gains migrants: report” by Lance Reynolds. The lede was “A Boston-based think…
Month: February 2025
Boston Deserves Democracy
The Boston Globe has an editorial today explaining again why poor and minority communities like Boston shouldn’t be trusted with democracy. The Globe has done this before about Lawrence, and I’ve written about it before. So, I’m just going to paste in what I wrote about the Lawrence school committee (just substitute “Boston” for “Lawrence”)…
Keri Rodrigues Should NOT Be Appointed to Massachusetts K-12 Statewide Graduation Council
It should be obvious that appointing a corporate lobbyist to the Massachusetts K-12 Statewide Graduation Council as a “parent” is a bad idea. Just in case, I wrote the following letter to Massachusetts Secretary of Education Patrick Tutwiler urging him NOT to consider appointing National Parent Union’s Keri Rodrigues as a parent representative to the…