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...Institute of Politics (IOP) announced today that its spring class of resident fellows will include Kerry M. Healey ’82, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Massachusetts who lost her bid for the state??s top job last year; Nancy L. Johnson ’57, the 12-term Republican congresswoman from Connecticut who was ousted by a Democratic challenger two months ago; and Lamont, who defeated incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., in an August primary before Lieberman stormed back to win the general election...
...Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was appointed Undersecretary of Homeland Defense for Massachusetts by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 last Wednesday. Kayyem, who has a Lebanese-American father and Lebanese immigrant mother, is the only Arab-American to hold such a prominent position in any state??s homeland security department, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “I’m having mixed emotions right now. I was not planning this,” Kayyem said in a telephone interview yesterday. She will be the first person ever to serve...
When the Massachusetts legislature passed an initiative to guarantee healthcare to almost all of the state??s uninsured, it knocked the first crack into the dam holding America back from universal healthcare. This week, California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, set the stage for the bulldozing of that dam by proposing to grant health coverage to all 6.5 million Californians who currently lack it. As with past Schwarzenegger acts, this venture has caught the public eye, and we hope it stimulates further national and state debate on how to fix the broken healthcare system...
...skeleton at the moment, and it will need to be filled in and fleshed out through vigorous debate in California. While some groups may feel aggrieved by the proposal’s initial details, we think its general structure—and the support it will provide to the state??s poor and uninsured—is worthy of praise and duplication...
...Republican nominee for Massachusetts governor in 2006 after four years in the state??s number-two post, but lost in the November election to fellow Harvard alum Governor Deval L. Patrick...