What heartless conservatives would balance a $1.9 billion state budget shortfall by service cuts to the needy, without any effort to take back the tax favors so long showered upon the rich and well-connected?  Was it the Tea Party extremists?  The right-wing fringe of the Republican Party?  No.  “No new taxes” was this year’s pledge by Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, leader of the  dominant Democratic Party.

Berkshire Greens PAC is a major partner of Healing Winds Community Event

Berkshire Greens PAC participated in the Earth Day Community Event produced by Healing Winds. It was held in Lee on April 23, 2011. Snow and rain in the morning provided a good reason for the organizers to move the event indoors at the First Congregational Church in Lee.

As the dust settled on the first televised debate for this year's gubernatorial contest in Massachusetts, one clear truth emerged. There was one candidate, and only one, who could legitimately be called "the people's candidate."

What could be more disturbing than having Congress and President Obama discard single-payer universal health care from consideration? Seeing gun-toting, death-threatening opponents, along with obscenely high lobbying dollars, go unchallenged by most Democrats, Republicans, and good-willed Americans alike.

Why is Chuck Turner in Handcuffs?

The Boston media used a grainy photograph released by the FBI to conclude that Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is guilty of extortion. But the accompanying FBI affidavit, when shorn of speculation and irrelevancies, is a decidedly unconvincing document that fails to provide a legitimate law enforcement justification for the targeting of Turner. Could it be that Chuck Turner’s history as an outspoken critic of the FBI had something to do with his being targeted?