Just wondering:
- IF City Councilors Gene Tacy and Angela Plassmann feel like members of “The Wild Bunch.”
- WHY gubernatorial frontrunner Deval Patrick feels it is necessary to distort the records of others. Of course there is this memo.
- IF instant runoff voting will be enacted in my child’s lifetime.
- WHY the term “change,” in politics has become nothing more than a toggle switch between Republicans and Democrats.
- WITH more layoffs looming, if Cooley Dickinson Hospital over-reached with the construction of its new wing.
- SAY it isn’t so Barney Frank.
- HOW Charlie Baker could cut taxes without decimating local services.
- WHY Northampton politicians have been mostly quiet on legalized gaming in the state. Are they leading or following?
- IF the armed services will see an uptick in gay applicants for enlistment.
- HOW local mainstream media outlets can fail to report on substantive issues like Attorney Joel Russell’s resignation from the Zoning Revisions Committee and City Councilor Angela Plassmann’s call for help on drug use in Northampton’s schools. Please see agenda setting by the media.
- HOW Obama and the Democrats could do more to aid the jobless.
- IF the State should require voters to show a picture ID in order to vote. Talk about a recipe for voter fraud.
- WHAT happened to all the trees on North Street.
- IF Northampton’s new pedi-cab company’s drivers can navigate safely city streets and hills.
- IF City Councilors and the Mayor receive emails and text messages during Council Meetings and if so, should those be part of the public record.
- WHETHER or not the two political parties that have cornered the market on America’s public policies like the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court ruling which opened up our nation’s airwaves to corporate interests. The role of ordinary citizens continues to diminish.
- IF there is such a thing as an objective nonpartisan public policy?
- WHY politicos celebrate madly after winning an election.
- WHERE have all the political moderates gone.
- DID Deval Patrick really hide-a-hack.
- IF we need more millionaires running for office.
- WHAT Tim Cahill is doing with $571,000 of taxpayer money.
- Massachusetts job losses up, unemployment rate down; go figure. See also agenda setting by the media above.
- CAN some Northampton citizens absorb another tax increase to fund the proposed new Police Station.
- SHOULD the proposed new Police Station be revenue neutral. That’s a lot of tickets.
- WHAT was center-left National Public Radio thinking when it fired liberal newsman and FOX contributor Juan Williams. I guess that’s like playing for the Red Sox and Yankees at the same time, or the Celtics and the Lakers, or the Patriots and the Jets…
- WHY affluent Democrats did not see the GOP coming and prepare a response.
- IF Northampton stands to become the bicycling center of the Northeast.
