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  • April 24, 2018

How Much Does The Press Care About Race and Policing?

October 8, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

On October 7, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature held a marathon hearing on "Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation". To be fair, Boston.com and the Boston Herald both reproduced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, fourth-amendment, judiciary committee, racial-profiling

Boston Herald Trolls With Racist Obama Cartoon

October 1, 2014 By thegreenmiles 36 Comments

The Boston Herald, the voice of old-school Boston racists, is in the national spotlight today for this overtly racist cartoon about President Obama and Secret Service breaches. The cartoonist is defending himself by claiming that, much like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, media, racism

From Media Thru Pols, Enough Warren Muck

May 27, 2012 By massmarrier 13 Comments

Let's not even pretend that Elizabeth Warren's repeating family anecdotes about having Cherokee ancestors is important, substantive in the race for US Senate. What it does illustrate includes: First the Boston Herald, dogged closely by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, defranco, Elizabeth Warren, scott-brown

Thank you Boston Herald and Lowell Sun!

February 8, 2011 By AmberPaw 16 Comments

Governor Patrick's proposal to dismantle the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) and move the constitutionally mandated defense of indigent Massachusetts residents into the executive branch is poorly thought out.  This … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, committee-for-public-counsel-serviuces, compassion, cpcs, gov.-patrick, indigent-defense, lowell-sun

Letting killers go

January 6, 2011 By surfcaster 8 Comments

When should a life sentence mean life? And, if the momentum to reform parole and sentencing continues to build, how close will the state come to locking up repeat burglars for 30 years? This is the subject of tomorrow's Friday Throwdown … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, dominic-cinelli, friday-throwdown, melissas-law, parole

Boston Herald Endorses Mike Lake!

September 6, 2010 By AmberPaw 49 Comments

The Boston Herald has endorsed Mike Lake and I agree with their assessment. Like Mike, I have to wonder why it takes 42 supervisors to supervise 43 workers as the Auditor's office is currently constituted. Further, having met and spoken … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: auditor, boston-herald, endorsement, mike-lake

Immigration Throwdown tomorrow! Join the fun.

July 8, 2010 By AmberPaw Leave a Comment

Boston Herald Immigration Throwdown link tomorrow, Friday 7/9/10.  This will be a live, online, semi-moderated discussion which will create a recorded transcript.  Let's have a group effort, more of a tag team if you can do a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, immigration, league-of-women-voters, throwdown

BREAKING NEWS – Friday throwdown at Boston Herald concerning Scott Brown TODAY 7/3/10

July 2, 2010 By AmberPaw 4 Comments

To view or participate in the Throwdown  Come one come all.  I have something to say so will take a lunch break from the brief I am writing to join in.  Besides, some of these votes are "personal" with me - my husband's work … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bank-regulation, boston-herald, live, scott-brown, unemployment

Will Sen. Scott Brown Meet With Massachusetts Immigrant Youth Before April 17?

April 12, 2010 By kyledeb 6 Comments

Currently, we are not asking for any policy commitments from Sen. Brown.  We are only asking for a simple meeting.  We want Sen. Brown to hear the stories of immigrant youth who have been affected by the broken federal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: associated-press, boston-globe, boston-herald, change.org, gustavo-rezende, harvard-college-act-on-a-dream, illegal, immigrant, immigration, jennifer-han, migrant, migration, nur-munir, scott-brown, student-immigrant-movement, undocumented

Transcript of Gov. Patrick’s online chat at the Herald now online

March 18, 2010 By AmberPaw 1 Comment

The transcript Transcript of Gov online w Herald I don't have time to read it right now but will later.  And you? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-herald, deval-patrick, governor, transcript

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