Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA05) each won their U.S. Senate primaries in Massachusetts on Tuesday. While Rep. Markey is well known as a longtime, rock-solid supporter of LGBT equality, Mr. Gomez has remained … [Read more...]
Archives for May 1, 2013
Obama fights to restrict women’s access to medicine
President Obama's decision today to side with the evangelical wing of The Republican party against the people who put him in office, and fight to restrict the availability of safe medicine in deference to extremist religious views -- … [Read more...]
Lynch did best in Scott Brown towns, poorer cities
The Globe's map with yesterday's election results is, as usual, a source of fun for me. No huge surprises other than the margin of Markey's victory in some places (85-15 in Newton, in the 90s in many Western Mass. towns). Glancing at the … [Read more...]
Polling works, newspaper endorsements don’t, and other lessons from yesterday
So the epic primary battles of 2013 are over. What did we learn? Newspaper endorsements don't mean sh!t. Everyone pretty much knew this already, but wow - what an emphatic demonstration we got yesterday. Republican Dan Winslow … [Read more...]
Your Ideas + My Ideas
As many in the Blue Mass Group community know, I am a former school teacher, a current At-Large Boston City Councilor, and I'm running for Mayor of Boston. I've always believed that city government is at its best when it's inclusive and … [Read more...]
Want to Know whats going on at CPS? Ask a Chicago Teacher
Unfortunately there is a huge "pro-business ed reform" bias in the mainstream media, so I was heartened to find this thoughtful and nuanced article examining the post-strike and pre-closing landscape in the Chicago Public Schools from the … [Read more...]
FLASHBACK: Gabriel Gomez Criticizes President Obama over Osama bin Laden Raid
Yesterday, Massachusetts Republicans nominated Gabriel Gomez for U.S. Senate. You may recall that Mr. Gomez appeared on MSNBC on August 17, 2012 - less than one year ago - acting as a spokesman for the swift-boat-style "Opsec" attack group, … [Read more...]
Love David Bernstein-but he is wrong
Usually I love reading David Bernstein, he was one of the highlights of the dearly departed (still feels weird saying it) Phoenix and an astute and fair minded commentator on the local political scene. But today he made his best Dan From … [Read more...]
The House lets down the most vulnerable
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Have our legislators forgotten about the most vulnerable people in our society? Unfortunately, that's the message we've taken away from last week's actions by the House on the state budget. First, … [Read more...]
Globe does its best Herald imitation
On Monday, David S. Bernstein made this observation on his new blog: —And finally, see how little things can change in four months, as shown by these two Boston Herald cover stories: Boston Herald, December 29, 2012, as Ed Markey … [Read more...]