In case you missed it, Governor Patrick today signed a bill moving MA's presidential primary up about a month, to Feb. 5. As previously noted, the really big news about this is that a bunch of special elections can figure on turnout being … [Read more...]
Archives for November 26, 2007
A Reporter Enters Wonderland: Dog Track Patrons Support Ending Dog Racing?!
First, the dog track's crowd was less than overwhelming: The roughly 12 people watching simulcasts on Sunday night represent a larger problem for the racetrack: significantly fewer people attend races than years ago and the track has … [Read more...]
DMR’s review of our Fernald ‘postage-stamp’ plan falls a bit short
George Mavridis, the former Fernald League president and chief architect of the postage-stamp proposal, maintains that his proposed scaled-back version of Fernald would occupy 30 percent of the present campus or less. And, that … [Read more...]
Will Ed O’Reilly take Chicken Pickens’ money now?
I also became disenchanted with John Kerry when I found out the medals he threw over the wall weren't even his own and that he had a video shoot of himself in Vietnam. As with 99% of all Vietnam Vet families, we have no home made … [Read more...]
Marriage: Better in the Dark Ages?
Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and the author of "Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage," offers a concise summary of several thousand years of history in a New York … [Read more...]
Lott to Resign Senate Seat
Bye bye, Senator Lott: PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, announced Monday he will retire from the Senate before January, ending a 35-year career in Congress in which he rose to his party's … [Read more...]
Burning Questions for Life Sciences Bill
Consider this a "focused open thread," if that isn't a contradiction in terms. This bill is pretty important, but I think most of us are rather ill-informed on the bill itself, or at least don't feel we know enough to … [Read more...]
Pats, Sox and Our Mentality
Cross-posted at Marry in Massachusetts. Cliché warning: I'll both belabor the obvious and torture sports analogies here. The game of if, if, if will surely play in Philly today, as it should here. In an era, sports and otherwise, that … [Read more...]