We've just completed some significant changes on the site's back end.  Consequently, we are no longer in "maintenance mode" - hopefully, everything is more or less back to normal.  Also, we very much hope that the slow load times and … [Read more...]

In an effort to address BMG's ongoing performance issues, we are going into "maintenance mode" for roughly the next 24 hours. We can't guarantee that the site will operate normally until this is finished, so please continue to bear with … [Read more...]

Today is an embarrassment of riches, when it comes to videos of the candidates for Mayor of Boston. You can see the Herald/Suffolk/NECN debate at this link. And immediately beforehand, several of the candidates participated in a … [Read more...]

From Charlie Baker's interview with the Globe: Baker told the Globe during an interview at his home today that he regretted how he had conducted his campaign against Governor Deval Patrick in 2010, and wanted to spend more time listening … [Read more...]

Here's Charlie Baker's intro video.  Certainly, it's an improvement over his 2010 intro video, which was so embarrassingly bad that his team quietly removed it from YouTube mid-campaign. Though as Baker moves around during the video, he … [Read more...]

To the surprise and astonishment of exactly nobody, Charlie Baker is running for Governor in 2014. Baker, 56, had long been considered a rising star in the Massachusetts political and government world, but his 2010 race to unseat Governor … [Read more...]

To read Joan Vennochi's column in today's Globe, you'd think that the folks objecting to the Ethics Commission's conclusion that Dan Wolf cannot both own 23% of Cape Air and hold public office are all progressive Democrats just like Dan … [Read more...]

Sometimes the right thing politically is also the right thing on the merits.  In asking Congress for authorization to act against Syria, President Obama got it right all around. President Obama stunned the world and paused his march to war … [Read more...]

Surely you didn't think that Dan Wolf was the only one that would be affected by the Ethics Commission's nutty ruling regarding Cape Air?  Check out this great piece from Commonwealth Magazine, in which intrepid reporter Jack Sullivan dug … [Read more...]

In the "can't make this sh!t up" department, Scott Brown showed up on stage with aging rockers Cheap Trick at the Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton, NH a few days ago (HT RMG).  And, yes, it's on video. Does this make it more likely … [Read more...]