The Red Sox are very important to Massachusetts voters. But Deval Patrick has not fully explained his own baseball past.While he talks no end about growing up on the south side of Chicago, Patrick has been stangely silent about his baseball … [Read more...]
Archives for August 21, 2006
Sonia Chang-Diaz: Calling for a “high standard”
In light of the recent murder of Analicia Perry, who was killed on the same spot as her brother some four years earlier, David asked, What is it going to take for city and state to react to public safety crisis? Chang-Diaz related the … [Read more...]
Healey’s pollster sez she’s closing the gap!
Hey, it's all smiles in the Healey camp, as they come out with something that is surely an indication of how she will govern: a PowerPoint presentation. This one's got polls in it, with bars and graphs and gosh, you can pop some popcorn, … [Read more...]
Healey campaign corrects embarrassing gaffe on website
A visit to the Healey/Hillman website today reveals that they recently fixed a very, very silly mistake that was on the site for a long time.Here's how it used to look:Notice anything odd? Like ... "oh, there's that nice Mrs. … [Read more...]
Domo arigato Mr. Roboto
The popular Mayah McGlynn of Medford is making robo-calls on behalf of Tom Reilly -- just got one now, when I foolishly disregarded my blank caller ID screen. (must ... pick up ... the phone ... It's like that urge to swerve into oncoming … [Read more...]
Did I say 4? I meant 8.
I was on NewsNight on NECN again tonight. And on my drive home, I realized I misspoke when talking about Hillary Clinton. I think I said that she had terrific name recognition, since she was a very prominent First Lady for four … [Read more...]
Question – Sept. 7 debate?
Does anyone know the date, time and network of the upcoming Sept. 7 gubernatorial debate? I'm trying to figure out whether it will be on a channel we get in Berkshire County, and whether it will be worth organizing a debate watching … [Read more...]
No Child Left Behind: Just So Much Cannon Fodder
I just received a letter disclosing an outrageous (not to say obscene) aspect of the No Child Left Behind education reform law. Our high school principal wrote to inform us that a provision of NCLB requires high schools "to provide … [Read more...]
Deval on his Business Record
I have spent my entire professional life pursuing a commitment to fundamental fairness. Whether it was fighting for poor tenants as head of the Legal Aid Bureau in law school, defending people on death row or advocating for basic voting … [Read more...]
A Fourth Write-In Candidate for Boston’s Second Suffolk Senate Seat?
Word on the street is that a fourth Dem activist is about to toss his hat into the write-in ring for the Second Suffolk Senate District race. Does anyone have any inside scoop on that possibility? So it'll be Wilkerson, Samiyah … [Read more...]