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Political geography of voter tax preferences in Massachusetts
Source: BHI
MA, United States

Detailed database organized by municipality on Massachusetts' voters' tax preferences.

Mass Outrage
Source: Mass Outrage
MA, United States

"Mass Outrage is a collection of real-world practical information about how the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) works, how restraining orders work, and how to fight them to save your family."

Restraining order dirty tricks
Source: Mass Outrage
MA, United States

Advice, news articles, case law, and other information on how to fight the consequences of false restraining orders.

The Bearer Instruments Money Directory
Source: Bearerinstruments.com
Cohasset, MA, United States
support@bearerinstruments.com

A directory of Web sites and Internet presences offering and accepting non-fiat monies.

School Choice 2000: What's Happening in the States: Massachusetts
Source: The Heritage Foundation
MA, United States

Education statistics, the legal context for school choice, and a summary of recent developments in the state. Also provides contact information and links to information in the other states and U.S. territories.

Libertarian Student Clubs WWW Network
Source: MIT Libertarians
Boston, MA, United States

Links and updates page for Libertarian student clubs online, but not often updated anymore. Companion to John McPherson's Libertarian Student Club E-mail Network.

Critiques of Libertarianism
Source: Mike Huben
Arlington, MA, United States

Many thoughtful criticisms of libertarianism here. Features the Non-Libertarian FAQ, which attacks arguments often used on USENET. Also see Critiques of Critiques of Libertarianism: ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/rabelais/incoming/FAQ1.html

Geoff's Firearms and Freedom page
Source: Geoff Coelho
Worcester, MA, United States
geoffc@prodigy.net

Second amendment and gun rights issues, Conservative/Libertarian politics, news,commentary and links.

Point of Ares
Source: Point of Ares
MA, United States
ares@ma.ultranet.com

Led by Objectivist and libertarian writer/lyricist/singer/bassist Karen Michalson, this Rush/Zeppelin-influenced trio has just released their debut album, "Enemy Glory," which is available for order online. Site includes reviews, history, links, and short .wav samples of the band's work.

Chislenko's Advanced and Frontierish Page
Source: Alexander Chislenko
Boston, MA, United States
sasha1@netcom.com

A Russian libertarian philosopher in Boston offers his papers on "a variety of futuristic, technological and philosophical subjects," as well as an excellent set of links on thinkers who have influenced him. Superb.

Randy Barnett
Source: Boston University
Boston, MA, United States
rbarnett@bu.edu

Randy Barnett has taught cyberlaw, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, agency and partnership, and jurisprudence. Before entering teaching, he was a criminal prosecutor for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago where he tried many felony cases. He has delivered lectures and published books on the principles and theory of law.

Jeffrey A. Miron
Source: Boston University
Boston, MA, United States
jmiron@bu.edu

This economist at Boston University is an expert in the economics of: illegal drugs, alcohol prohibition, and violence and crime. He is also president of the Bastiat Institute. A collection of his articles is available online in Adobe Acrobat.

Joyce L. Malcolm
Source: Second Amendment Sisters, Inc.
Cambridge, MA, United States
JMalcolm@bentley.edu

MIT history professor has written on the Anglo-American origins of the right to keep and bear arms and is currently writing a book on how English anti-gun laws have affected crime rates.

Caroline Hoxby
Source: Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States
choxby@harvard.edu

Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Cambridge MA 02138. Phone: 617-496-3588, Fax: 617-495-8570. Research Topics: The market for higher education, school finance, school choice, teachers' unions, human capital investments and income inequality and income growth.

Support educational freedom: The Bryant family
Source: Educational Freedom
Author: Donna M.De Poalo
MA, United States

Text of the appeal of the Bryant family for educational freedom. Suggestions for support are offered. (09/02)

The Crisis in American Education
Source: Sudbury Valley School
Framingham, MA, United States
sudval@aol.com

The educational institutions of this country are being challenged on every side with an intensity unparalleled in history. Among those offering new and better ways of teaching our children is the Sudbury Valley School.

Survey of Massachusetts Residents Shows Clear Support for School Choice
Source: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
MA, United States

A survey conducted by Opinion Dynamics Corporation and commissioned by the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research shows that support for school choice by Massachusetts parents runs deep. Adobe PDF. (10/96)

Bilingual Education in Massachusetts: The Emperor Has No Clothes
Source: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Author: Christine H. Rossell and Keith Baker
MA, United States

Suggests ways the bilingual education programs of Massachusetts can be reformed. Adobe pdf. (1996)

Competition, Choice and the Structure of Public Education
Source: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Boston, MA, United States

At a Pioneer Institute forum, four noted Boston education policy-makers discussed plans for reforming the city's public schools. Adobe pdf. (8/96)

Massachusetts Charter School Profiles
Source: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
MA, United States

Since August 1995, 15 charter schools have opened for business in Massachusetts. Parents and students were surveyed to determine their perceptions of school performance. Adobe pdf. (7/96)

Demand for Charter Schools Continues to Rise
Source: Pioneer Institute
MA, United States

"Since the first charter schools opened their doors in 1995, the demand for seats has far exceeded the supply. The average number of applications received by Commonwealth charter schools for each available space has more than doubled in the past four years." (10/99)

The new sumptuary laws: How MA consumption taxes hurt the poor
Source: BHI
Author: Cornelius J. Chapman Jr
MA, United States

Study examines Massachusetts' taxes, and calls for the creation of Individual Withholding Accounts that would permit residents to earn interest on state taxes withheld from their paychecks. (PDF file) (4/14/03)

Do Project Labor Agreements save taxpayers money?
Source: Beacon Hill Institute
Author: Jonathan Haughton, Darlene C. Chisholm, and Paul Bachman
Boston, MA, United States

A new study by the Beacon Hill Institute shows that Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), which effectively limit municipalities to union-only contracts, add millions to the cost of building new schools in the Greater Boston area.

Competitiveness Report shows Massachusetts at number two
Source: Beacon Hill Institute
Author: Jonathan Haughton and Vadym Slobodyanyuk
Boston, MA, United States

Defining “competitiveness” as the ability to ensure and sustain a high level of per capita income and its continued growth, these Beacon Hill Institute authors combined more than three dozen variables into nine subindexes, each of which (e.g., government and fiscal policy, infrastructure) represents an element of competitiveness (Adobe Acrobat PDF file format). (12/20/01)

Civic education: readying Massachusetts's next generation of citizens
Source: Pioneer Institute
Author: David E. Campbell
MA, United States

Civic participation is falling, especially among young people. This paper reports on the state of civic education in Massachusetts, focusing particularly on the performance of charter schools.

Study says MA tax cuts won't mean budget cuts
Source: Beacon Hill
Boston, MA, United States

A new study released today by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University shows that Massachusetts can weather the current fiscal crisis without cutting spending and without postponing planned tax cuts. Last year, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that called for a reduction in the state income tax to 5% by 2003. (11/12/01)

Question 1 will cost Boston thousands of jobs
Source: Beacon Hill
Boston, MA, United States

If a property-tax increase being put before Boston voters next month is approved, the city would lose more than 1,510 jobs, according to an analysis by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University. (Acrobat PDF Reader required) (10/26/01)

Build more or manage better? Subsidized housing in Massachusetts
Source: Pioneer Institute
Author: Howard Husock and David J. Bobb
MA, United States

An analysis of the current state of Massachusetts subsidized housing and a call for better management of the extensive inventory of public/otherwise subsidized housing already built. (07/25/01)

Running Boston's bureaucratic marathon
Source: Institute for Justice
Author: Dana Berliner
Boston, MA, United States

"Boston welcomes entrepreneurs, but it also makes life difficult for them. It is toward harmonizing the City's pro-entrepreneurial philosophy with its regulatory reality that this report is directed." (1997)

Innovation and Massachusetts charter schools
Source: Rosenblum Brigham Associates
MA, United States

Concludes that charter schools benefit "from a combination of autonomy and accountability, which on the one hand holds them responsible for achieving results, and, on the other, allows them many degrees of freedom in reaching those results." (7/98)

Competition in Education: A 1999 Update of School Choice in Massachusetts
Source: Pioneer Institute
Author: Susan L. Aud
MA, United States

An examination of the social, racial, and financial impact of Massachusetts' interdistrict choice and charter school programs on participating districts and a determination of whether the market competition model of education is being borne out in Massachusetts. (9/99)

CSF Boston: A CEO America Affiliate Program
Source: CEO America
Boston, MA, United States

Cornelius (Con) Chapman, Judy Burnette; Eliot Church of Roxbury, 56 Dale St., Boston, MA 02119; phone 617-445-3900, FAX 617-442-8299. Most private voucher programs affiliated with Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation have been established by individuals wishing to promote educational choice. For details, contact the program in your area.

Support the Mt. Holyoke SAS project
Source: 2nd Amendment Sisters
South Hadley, MA, United States

To make a donation to help the Second Amendment Sisters chapter at Mount Holyoke College spread the word about self-protection and the right to keep and bear arms, in the belly of arch-liberal Massachusetts, go to the site and designate your contribution as "Mount Holyoke." (02/05/02)

Support the Bryant Family
Source: Donna M. De Poalo
MA, United States
TheBryantFamily@educationalfreedom.com

For several years, the Bryant family has been fighting for their right to direct the education of their children. You can join the effort to support them and the fight for educational freedom.

Speechcode focus of the month, 11/03
Source: FIRE
Amherst, MA, United States

A look at Hampshire College in MA, whose speech code "poses a serious threat to debate on campus in general, and to satire and political speech in particular."

Newslink vol 7, no. 1
Source: Beacon Hill Institute
Boston, MA, United States

In this issue: "The Story of Route 128"; "BHI State of the Household Survey"; "The World According to Bono is Wrong!"; and more.

Heretical Ideas
Source: Alex Knapp
Springfield, MA, United States
heretic@hereticalideas.com

The personal weblog of Alex Knapp, featuring up to the minute commentary on current events, popular culture and more -- all from his nerdy libertarian perspective.

The American Anti-Slavery Group
Source: AASG
Boston, MA, United States
info@anti-slavery.org

"The only American organization solely dedicated to abolishing modern day slavery worldwide. We monitor, document, and publicize the plight of slaves around the globe. Our special focus is on the worst and most-ignored cases of human bondage: black chattel slavery in Mauritania and Sudan." Not a "libertarian" group, but working on a worthy cause which libertarians should support.

Principality of Freedonia
Source: Embassy of the Principality of Freedonia
Boston, MA, United States
Freedonia@Freedonia.org

This online "embassy" promotes a new nation project based on ... libertarian constitutional monarchy! Interesting ideas and a well-developed constitution and governmental organization.

Bastiat Institute
Source: Jeffrey Miron
Wellesley, MA, United States
bastiat@mediaone.net

A small think-tank run by Boston University professor Jeffrey A. Miron, named in honor of French classical liberal Frederic Bastiat. "The Institute commissions research and discussion papers that critically examine libertarian policy proposals, and it distributes these papers to journalists, policymakers, business leaders, academics, and the general public."

Pink Pistols
Source: Pink Pistols
Boston, MA, United States
pinkpistols@egroups.com

An organization for armed gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered, and friends.

Media and Technology Charter High (MATCH) School
Source: MATCH
Boston, MA, United States
goldstein7@aol.com

Charter school; contact Michael Golstein.

Marblehead Community Charter Public School
Source: MCCPS
Marblehead, MA, United States
jbmccps@hotmail.com

Charter school; contact Jeff Barry.

Neighborhood House Charter School
Source: NHCS
Dorchester, MA, United States
CBinns@ma.ultranet.com

Charter school; contact Kristen McCormack.

Somerville Charter School
Source: SCS
Somerville, MA, United States
hmurgida@scs-sabis.net

Charter school; contact Helen Murgida

South Boston Harbor Academy Charter School
Source: SBHACS
South Boston, MA, United States
bpeiser@sbha.org

Charter school; contact Brett Peiser, Principal

Sudbury Valley School
Source: Sudbury Valley School
Framingham, MA, United States
sudval@aol.com

It's not just a school -- it's the inspiration for similar facilities popping up around the country. The Sudbury model allows students a large measure of responsibility and choice in their own education.

Community Day Charter School
Source: CDCS
Lawrence , MA, United States
cdcs@mdc.net

Charter school; contact Robert Spezzano or Margaret Kramer.

Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School
Source: CCLCS
Orleans, MA, United States
Pat_Anthony@lighthouse.chtr.ma.us

Charter school; contact Patricia Anthony.

Boston University Residential Charter School
Source: BURCS
Granby, MA, United States
dcostello@burcs.org

Charter schools; contact Dan W. Costello.

Massachusetts charter schools
Source: U.S. Charter Schools
MA, United States

Profiles of charter schools in the state.

Massachusetts Charter School Resource Center
Source: Pioneer Institute
MA, United States
lbrown@pioneerinstitute.org

Resource center. Linda Brown, 85 Devonshire Street 8th Fl., Boston, MA 02109. Phone 617-723-2277, FAX 617-723-1880.

Massachusetts Homeschool Organization of Parent Educators
Source: MASSHOPE
MA, United States
info@masshope.org

Resources and support for homeschoolers. 5 Atwood Road, Cherry Valley, MA 01611-3332. Phone: (978) 544-7892, Fax: (508) 892-3437.

Brandeis Libertarians
Source: Brandeis University Libertarians
Author: Michael Sturm
Waltham, MA, United States
webmaster@lp-brandeis.org

Libertarian Association of Massachusetts
Source: LPM
Boston, MA, United States

Includes events, news, and other updates from the National Libertarian Party affiliate of MA.

The UMass Objectivist Club Home Page
Source: UMOC
Amherst, MA, United States
objectiv@stuaf.umass.edu

Hosts discussions, speeches, seminars, and more. Site details upcoming events and links to Objectivism-related sites.

Harvard University Objectivist Club
Source: Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, United States
hoc@hcs.harvard.edu

Club frequently hosts lectures.

MIT Libertarians
Source: MIT Libertarians
Cambridge, MA, United States

Student organization page featuring a calendar of upcoming events, contact information, and instructions for joining their electronic mailing list.

MIT Student Association for Freedom Of Expression (SAFE)
Source: SAFE
Cambridge, MA, United States

First Amendment advocates at MIT. Their site includes some humorous (or is it tragic?) stories of political correctness taken to its "logical" extreme at MIT.

Gilder Technology Group
Source: GTG
MA, United States

Research and consulting business led by technology guru George Gilder. Includes articles and op-eds by and about Gilder, as well as an archive of the Gilder Technology Report in PDF format.

Central Massachusetts Liberty Coalition
Source: George Phillies
Worcester, MA, United States
phillies@wpi.edu

"Central Massachusetts' leading pro-liberty political-education organization."

Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Source: Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
Boston, MA, United States
pioneer@pioneerinstitute.org

Solidly free-market site includes full texts of a broad range of Massachussets-related policy papers on school choice, privatization and decentralization.

GOAL - Gun Owners Action League
Source: GOAL
Northboro, MA, United States
staff@goal.org

"The official state firearms association of Massachusets." Site includes lots of useful regional information, such as a legislative hotline, state firearms laws, articles and editorials, clubs and courses, and events and resources. Great resource for Massachusetts gun owners and concerned citizens.

American Institute for Economic Research
Source: AIER
Great Barrington, MA, United States
info@aier.org

Site for moderate free-market independent research group. Not much content here, though one cool feature is the cost of living calculator. Information about summer fellowships and job openings are also posted.

The Beacon Hill Institute for Public Research
Source: Suffolk University
Boston, MA, United States
bhi@beaconhill.org

"Economic methods applied to current issues" is Beacon Hill's tag-line, and it's a pretty good one at that. You'll find some very well-researched opinion and news analysis pieces here. Local focus as well.

The Massachusetts Charter School Handbook
Source: Pioneer Institute
MA, United States

"A widely used resource for helping courageous teachers, parents, colleges, museums, community development organizations, and businesses start their own charter schools." Available in both HTML and PDF versions. (1999)

Randy Barnett's Home Page
Source: Boston University
Author: Randy E. Barnett
Boston, MA, United States
rbarnett@bu.edu

Web site listing the writings of this pro-freedom lawyer. E-texts of many of his works are available from the site.

Christina Hoff Sommers
Source: Equity Feminism.com
MA, United States

Collection of articles and book reviews (as well as responses from critics) from the Clark University philosophy professor and author of "Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women."

Aristotle's Politics
Source: MIT
Author: Aristotle
Cambridge, MA, United States

The first attempt at common-sense political analysis.

Nicomachean Ethics
Source: MIT
Author: Aristotle
Cambridge, MA, United States

Aristotle's well-reasoned treatise on ethics. "To entrust [happiness] to chance...would be a very defective arrangement."

Battered Men's Helpline
Source: No Excuse 4 Abuse
MA, United States

"The Department of Justice statistics (May 2000) state that males are victims of 15-16% of all reported domestic violence incidents which equals approximately 160,000 men a year." This hotline in Maine offers support and points battered men to other resources.

Brainburst Designs: The Liberty Marketplace
Source: Robert Lee
Boston, MA, United States
rbl@robertleeportfolio.com or rblee83@gmail.com

A collection of liberty-oriented designs and quotations on a wide variety of apparel. The goal is to spread the message of small, limited government and individual freedom. There's something for every liberty-loving person out there! Recommended! Don't miss the wealth of liberty material that is not on the above "The Liberty Marketplace" page, but on the rest of the site.

RKBA bumper stickers
Source: Eric Pavao
Raynham, MA, United States
rkbabang@yahoo.com

RKBA Oval "country of origin" type bumper stickers. Great for sticking to signs or clothing at gun protests, political signs of pro-gun candidates, or – imagine this – the back of a car or truck.

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