Beware the Doldrums

By Steve Poftak
December 29th, 2008

The Commonwealth’s various entities seem to be utilizing the slack periods of the calendar to great effect lately.

Attorney General Martha Coakley chose to release her settlement with Diane Wilkerson late in the day on a Friday in August. (Sidebar: How is that working out?)

The State Ethics Commission released its settlement with current MassBio head Robert Coughlin on Christmas Eve. I commend it to you for its content, although the miserable State Ethics website does not appear to have updated its findings since sometime in 2007.

And, ominously perhaps, Jim Aloisi’s appointment as Secretary of Transportation was shuffled out on Friday, December 19th in the midst of massive snowstorm.