We hear that studies in opposition to the global warming crowd are now being suppressed by the EPA.
Emails released by the Competitive Enterprise Institute show that a recent study not only suppressed, but other groups looking to comment on it were instructed not to as well:
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a non-profit, free-market public
policy organization, [...]

This morning’s paper focuses on some of the local restaurants and businesses trying to survive in this recession and having a tough go of it.
Many are having trouble keeping up with the costs and expenses, and the taxes are just another thing throwing them over the edge.
Our own Bob Cox is trying to survive this [...]

What is wrong with this new Speaker of the House (DeLeo).
I am most happy with our own State Rep, Colleen Garry, as well as the other local reps like Bill Green in Billerica and Kevin Murphy in Lowell who all spoke out yesterday and voted against raising the Sales Tax.
The house has refused to support [...]

Up at the federal level, we have the government pushing through a “stimulus” bill which is supposed to get the economy going by creating jobs and getting people spending money.
The plan includes tax cuts (really credits) for most of us who work, as well as most who do not. (There’s a real incentive to improve [...]

Ok, this mornings message from Barbara Anderson sort of wakes you up. Its all about question 1.. the repeal of the income tax.

I’ve noticed that when government is out of control, concerned voters fall into [...]

In an article in the Boston Globe, Dracut is identified as one of the hardest hit in the area with respect to the drop in housing values and its recent increase in taxes.
One of those hardest hit was Dracut, which had the area’s steepest one-year percentage drop in average value, from $318,811 to $303,879, or [...]

Yesterday’s vote in Chelmsford to pass a 2.8 million dollar Proposition 2-1/2 override failed at the ballot box with voters refusing the override 3-2.
This was with the threat of closing one elementary school, one fire station, and a huge number of other cuts. (the real test now will be to see how much of that [...]

I was pretty impressed this morning when I stopped in to the local convenience store to pick up my morning papers and found a stack of flyers placed at the register calling for customers to contact their senator to fight the proposed increase in cigarette tax (another $1.00 per pack).
“This outrageous tax increase will jeopardize [...]

Our friends at the associated press sum it up pretty well. Gov Patrick did not get his casino bill, so everyone’s on the search for new “revenues”, ie taxes.
Lawmakers on the hunt for revenues in wake of casino defeat
BOSTON (AP) _ With the defeat of Gov. Deval Patrick’s casino bill, lawmakers are on the [...]