Today is Friday, which means that the Globe's weekly poll is out.  It shows, just like all the ones that came before it, that Martha Coakley is way ahead and nothing else is settled.  Some thoughts: Steve Grossman and Don Berwick are in … [Read more...]

You might have seen Charlie Baker's latest web spot on this very page - I did, on the Google ad that appears below the first front-page post.  It sets forth Charlie Baker's three big ideas to make Massachusetts "great."  Hold onto your … [Read more...]

For the nominee of a party that for more than a decade has been running to "respect the will of the voters" by cutting the income tax to 5% (per the 2000 ballot question), this strikes me as a curious strategy. Baker on Wednesday in an … [Read more...]

UPDATE: With a new officer - Ferguson native Ron Johnson, of the state Highway Patrol - put in charge of the police response in Ferguson, things appear to have changed dramatically for the better.  Here's a telling photo, via WaPo's Wesley … [Read more...]

Globe: John J. O’Brien, the disgraced former Probation commissioner accused of corruption, and his top aide, Elizabeth Tavares, today were convicted of mail fraud, racketeering, and racketeering conspiracy by a US District Court jury, … [Read more...]

The Board of Market Basket is meeting tomorrow morning (Friday, July 25th). MB workers plan a massive (and "final" (their word) rally to coincide with the meeting. So BMG, what will the Market Basket Board do? Reinstate Arthur T? Stand by … [Read more...]

The headline on the front page of today's Globe pretty well sums things up: Questions rise of why no lawmakers were charged The headline on the same article in the online version is even worse: Probation case focus on lawmakers may … [Read more...]

In case you missed it: for days after pretty much every sitting or would-be politician in the country had made some kind of statement about the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision, Charlie Baker hadn't said a thing.  Then, finally, Baker … [Read more...]

Today is the final day of the Supreme Court's 2013-2014 term, and, as expected, it saw the announcement of two hot-button cases: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Harris v. Quinn.  Both were 5-4 decisions with the depressingly … [Read more...]

In today's column, Globie Jeff Jacoby cites a single example of a Republican courting black votes (namely, Mississippi incumbent Senator Thad Cochran), and concludes as follows.  Emphasis added. What turned the tide was the exercise by … [Read more...]