Entries in MassPoliticsProfs by Maurice Cunningham

The Pioneer Institute is releasing a new privatization movie tying the protection of public schools to the Know Nothing Party. But here's something that would really vex Pioneer: the Know Nothings were economic progressive! Maybe a sequel?

Recent revelations by OCPF of the true donors to dark money political fronts by a Financial Privatization Cabal confronts Massachusetts with a grim threat: is our democracy slipping away? 

Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has shuttered yet another dark money operation, Strong Economy for Growth. OCPF's enforcement actions reveal a shocking level of illegality in our ballot measure campaigns.What to do?

Stumped for that gift that will endure in your loved one's memory for eternity? Give a book!

Dark money political front Families for Excellent Schools has been banned in Boston but appears to be resurrected in the form of a new dark money operation: Bay State Action Fund.

The Republican tax cut plan leaves no doubt what the GOP is all about - serving the passions of the rich instead of the needs of the people. Can this plan sell in Massachusetts?

It's hard to believe that the Pioneer Institute set out to blame the Baker administration for declining performance in Massachusetts schools, but ...

Obamacare stands and Medicare and Social Security are still in place, but it looks like the Koch Brothers instruction to get their tax cuts or else has the Republican Congress in craven obedience. It's enough to make the Kochs Time Magazine's Men of the Year.

Ever have $3,000 in dark money slipped to you from out of state interests and then forgotten about it? That seems to be what happened to Malden Ward 3 School Committee candidate Mekka Smith.

_{Malden High School. Wikimedia Commons.}

The Dark Money/Privatization Industrial Complex is back at it again, this time in Ward 3 Malden.