I’m a resident of Arlington and a divorced father of two children, now 10 and 13. There is a bill now before the Judiciary committee H1400, and a senate version S1569. This bill would create a rebuttable presumption of shared child custody in cases of divorce. This bill is very important to me, and to …
Why subsidize corporations through noncompetes?
Recently I spoke with a colleague who has been unemployed for 6 months after being laid off from a large publicly traded employer. He was an individual contributor engineer, working on implementing new features in a fairly mature piece of software; certainly not a position you could consider in any way as having access to strategic …
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Non Compete – Non Existent
In June I left a company I worked at for 7 years. I was being forced to work as much as 80hrs weekly on salary. I have a wife, two kids, one with special needs. Before leaving and at the urging of certain people, I checked my personnel file to ensure I had nothing in …
Interim replacement for Senator Kennedy
The proposed about face on a law that was just rejected a few years ago, no matter how self serving the Romney agenda may have been then or how worthy the cause on health care may be now, reminds me of our forefathers’ aim to create a government of laws, not of men. If laws like this can be …
Re: interim Senator
I am writing to urge you to support legislation to appoint an interim Senator to fill Senator Kennedy’s seat. This appointment in no way interferes with the election process that is already underway. My response to the critics who say that such a move is political is: “Of course it’s political. The people …
The Fall Legislative Agenda
Gambling, health care cost control, further pension reform – these are the major issues that the legislature is likely to address this fall after we resolve the Kennedy succession. The theme? Continued financial pressure.