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RSN: NY AG Eric Schneiderman Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations

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08 May 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News STILL CAN’T GET DONATIONS MOVING - HELP OUT! - We are still trying to get the May fundraiser moving (unsuccessfully so far). We certainly have enough Readers but so far very few donations. A few donations would really help. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! NY AG Eric Schneiderman Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Allegations  Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker Excerpt: "Schneiderman is facing a reckoning of his own. As his prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters." READ MORE Voters at a polling precinct. (photo: Getty Images) Seven Primaries to Watch Today Lisa Hagen, The Hill Hagen writes: "Tuesday is one of the biggest primary days of 2018." READ MORE A one-year-old from El Salvador clings to his mother ...

Misguided Boston Globe and PIPELINES

FROM BLUE MASS GROUP : Globe, put down the pipe March 6, 2018  By  Charley on the MTA   Leave a Comment Even yet still another baffling, curdled-milk editorial  endorsing more gas pipeline infrastructure, torching (see what I did there) us anti-pipeline “faddists”; and going so far as to flame Sens. Jamie Eldridge and Marc Pacheco and AG Healey, the Little Red Hens of renewable energy expansion and climate readiness. No. This is Orwellian and silly on the face of it. You cannot say “renewable energy is certainly the region’s future” while at the same time arguing for permanent fossil fuel infrastructure that lasts a generation (30-40 years), certainly crowding out renewables. LNG tankers, rail and trucks; oil-fueled peaker plants are a lot of things — maybe worse in the very short term — but none are permanent. Furthermore, Eldridge, Pacheco, and Healey are hardly “sitting on their hands” as the Globe preposterously accuses; they are pulling the weight,...

MASSterList: The Insider | Unsuitable | Rockwell deal?

Subscribe   Archives   Twitter   Facebook   Instagram This email may be cut off by your email provider. To see today's full MASSterList, click "View entire message" at the bottom, or view the online version  here. By Jay Fitzgerald and Keith Regan 01/30/2018 The Insider | Unsuitable | Rockwell deal? Happening Today   Governor’s housing bill, State of Union address, Kennedy response   -- A group of protesters appear before a judge for a hearing on civil charges related to pipeline protests in Otis State Forest, 9 Gilmore Ave., Great Barrington, 9 a.m. -- Gov.  Charlie Baker , Secretary of Housing and Economic Development  Jay Ash  and Undersecretary of Housing and Community Development  Chrystal Kornegay  testify at a hearing before the Committee on Housing in support of the administration’s  housing bill , Room B-1, 10 a.m. -- PRIM Investment Committee meets with Treasurer  Deborah...