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Taxes: Pennies vs. dollars

With the possible exception of food, in each of these, there is a huge role for the state. And the state may be in a position to invest in such a way that you end up with more money in your pocket than...

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Romney Screws Over UMASS Once Again

“It’s a clear indication from (Romney’s) perspective that the university was too bold in its stance to support the law-school issue,” said Mr. Karam, of Tiverton, R.I., who is president and CEO of the...

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UMass divests from Sudan

In a move that should be an example to all other public (and private) institutions in the country, UMass has announced that it will divest from Sudan due to the genocide in Darfur. The Globe has it...

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Honorary Degree for Andrew Card? – Hell no!

It is now an undisputed fact that the Bush Administration knowingly and deliberately used lies and distortions to persuade the American public that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was necessary....

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WTF is Up With UMass?

The “Andy Card controversy” on the UMass Amherst campus has suddenly been displaced by system President Jack Wilson’s announcement of several high-level personnel shifts and a “trial run” of a plan to...

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UMess: Sen. Rosenberg is *pissed off*

AP reports on today’s faculty senate meeting in Amherst with UMass President Jack Wilson. Sen. Rosenberg thinks the fix was in against popular UMass Amherst chancellor John Lombardi: AMHERST, Mass.:...

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More UMass: Andy Card? Really? Still?

Just to ask a blaringly obvious and exceedingly uncomfortable question for the UMass muckety-mucks: Are you really, still going to give  Andy Card an honorary degree? I understand, being the...

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UMess: Tocco channels Jimy Williams

Remember old Sox skipper Jimy Williams, who would answer any questions of his perversely surreal managing with the brushoff, “Manager’s decision”? Maybe he’s giving PR advice to UMass board chair...

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Transcript of UMass meeting last week

The Amherst Bulletin has posted a transcript of last Thursday’s UMass Amherst Faculty Senate discussion of President Wilson’s announced personnel changes and reorganization.  This includes skeptical...

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UMass faculty: No confidence in Wilson, trustees

Yeah, this whole thing didn’t go over too well, did it? In what Faculty Senate secretary Ernest May said amounted to a no-confidence vote, the professors passed a resolution to “express lack of...

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Patrick keeps hands off of UMess

From Casey: Q: Could you talk about what?s going on with UMass and Jack Wilson? Could we get a comment on that? Patrick: “I respect the president?s right and authority to make personnel decisions. I...

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Tick-Tocco: The clock’s running on UMass chair

A break from MA-05 madness … I can't say I'm terribly surprised by this: Governor Deval Patrick, determined to exert control over the University of Massachusetts system, is undaunted by his failed bid...

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Should I cover over my Patrick sticker?

Some background first.  Faculty and staff at UMass get no raises except through new contracts, which normally come every three years.  If the state doesn’t want to pay raises, they can simply stall...

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Cost of College: Notes from America’s Most Indebted Generation

UMass Boston was recently featured in a superlative ten-minute piece from PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on the opressive rise in college costs and student debt.   College costs have been climbing...

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Sheila Bair at UMass

The most interesting question, I thought, was from a woman who asked why Bair acted competently and effectively in the crisis when the rest of the Bush financial leadership did not.  Bair didn’t really...

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Health insurance is NOT health care!

The reality too is that the CEO of Aetna earns 24 million a year, taken from those profits, Cigna’s CEO takes home 30 million a year see a great table from the same link.showing profits in the...

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Free speech for a terrorist? Or, why the governor hates me

Scheduled, then canceled The talk was originally scheduled by the special collections of the university library, as a 20-year retrospective on “The Great Sedition Trial” – the longest running, most...

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Boston Can Learn Much from Other Cities in Transition – Even Belfast and...

  This fall, as a Senior Fellow in the McCormack Graduate School at UMASS Boston, I had the privilege of being an observer at an annual gathering of the Forum for Cities in Transition. The four day...

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UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program

We currently have 600 students registered in our UMass Sustainable Food and Farming Certificate Program. If you are interested in this 15 credit UMass degree, see:...

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