(cross posted with retire conte in 2006)The Boston Channel, aka Channel 5, aired a report this evening on Mary Jean's battle with the State Police over her Web site postings. Click here to see the report. … [Read more...]
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The NY Times reports today, in a story not to be missed: "In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for … [Read more...]
Two big resignations
Doug Foy, the former head of the Conservation Law Foundation who Mitt Romney hired to be his head of development, is resigning. Romney surprised a lot of people when he hired Foy - many thought that a pro-business Republican like … [Read more...]
Senator “Moore”
I have a friend who is a professor at Clark University, who emailed me the below article. I thought it was interesting to see that other publications picked up this unusual incident, which has turned out to be just miscommunication between … [Read more...]
Welcome Herald readers!
If you first heard of this site from today's Boston Herald article by Kimberly Atkins and have stopped by to check us out, welcome! Our posts on the Chris Gabrieli issue, discussed in Atkins's article, are here and here. You … [Read more...]
Herald: blogs are changing political discourse
Be sure to check out this nice article in today's Herald by Kimberly Atkins. She discusses the flap over the Gabrieli signature ruling - and how "if you weren't on the Internet, you probably missed it." Atkins quotes yours … [Read more...]
Free air time: a better campaign finance reform
There's been a lot of talk lately about public financing of political campaigns. Personally, I'm skeptical. A true system of public financing would be phenomenally expensive, and I doubt that most Americans want to see that many … [Read more...]
You Heard It Here First
The Boston Herald's Laurel J. Sweet has been poking around on the Leominster Mom anti-Conte Web site story. Tom Reilly take notice. … [Read more...]