Results tagged “socialsecurity”

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry battled each other on jobs and Social Security at the GOP debate at Reagan Library last night. more ›

Mitt Romney is making all sorts of news lately, some good, some bad, and some silly. He had an eventful visit to Iowa where he made a few memorable comments during a speech at the Iowa State Fair. He got heckled by some Democrats who were concerned about possible cuts to Social Security. He recalled "a time in this country where we didn't celebrate attacking people based on their success" and said President Obama attacks successful people. It's apparently only okay to attack people who aren't "successful." more ›

--A former Marshfield High School student who was arrested in 2004 for planning a Columbine-like attack was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and could face 20 years in prison. He was, however, acquitted on a deadly weapons charge and on "promotion of anarchy." [Boston Globe] more ›

Sit back and imagine that you're with the Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure, and it's your job to distribute disks chock-full of names and addresses for those who have professional licenses in the state of Massachusetts. You distribute these disks because marketing firms want them thanks to the public records law. That doesn't sound so hard. So you use the office's new software to gather and generate this information. Then you let it run and... more ›