Massachusetts Redistricting Olympics
A Special Joint Committee composed of 28 state legislators controls redistricting in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. These committee members are all public officials with political interests, and if...
View ArticleSystemic Tendency Toward Consumerism
Compared to three centuries ago humans are vastly more productive today. Extensive division of labor and revolutionary technological developments have allowed society to satisfy humans’ basic needs...
View ArticleA Political Call to Arms
America is in crisis, politically, economically and socially. Such a declaration is not meant to scare or initiate hysteria, but to draw rational attention to the serious problems facing the United...
View ArticleReinventing American Capitalism
For the past month or so, The Nation Magazine has been Americans, If you had the ability to reinvent American capitalism, where would you start?” Here is my response:As Villanova Professor Eugene...
View ArticleParticipatory Redistricting Commission
In a recent post I discussed Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting program. Rather than delegating the task of budgeting to elected officials, Porto Alegre has developed an inclusionary process by...
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Massachusetts Congressional Map (Updated)
Massachusetts redistricting is well under way. The Legislative Committee on Redistricting has concluded its round of public hearings and is now scheduled to begin drawing maps over the next couple of...
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Massachusetts Congressional Mashup
Last week I posted a Massachusetts Congressional Map that attempted to abide by three specific principles:1. Maintain one majority-minority district while generally preserving the city of Boston (i.e....
View ArticleCA Redistricting Proves that Citizens Can and Should Draw the Lines: Others...
This week California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission proved yet again that the everyday citizen is more than capable of drawing fair and representative district maps. Over the past eight months,...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Liberal Media: Jeopardy Implicitly Pushes the Conservative...
You oft hear of the “liberal media bias.” Whether it’s movie producers, journalists, news broadcasters, or even your run of the mill blogger, modern media drives the liberal agenda. Despite the...
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