A good businessman knows you cannot stop a super tanker on a dime. The Globe has miles to go before it can stop and change direction. Soooo... bring back the Boston Post. Pay big money and long term contracts to selected few people from … [Read more...]

OK race fans. It's Derby day. A day bettors can make some money if they show some courage at the window. It is not a race to bet on the favorite to show. The Derby, unlike other races, has large field (20 this year) and is a long race. … [Read more...]

Yesterday I tore into freshman rep. Jason Lewis. Ryan called my assault a diatribe. Perhaps it was. Upon review I must say it was not my best work. It lacked direction without a solid foundation. None of the little pithiness BMGers are … [Read more...]

State Rep Jason Lewis showed himself to be the fool on the hill by sticking his head out of the bunker yesterday. Jason maybe a little thin skinned since being mocked on here by Bob and I for professing his love of the sales tax increase … [Read more...]

Freshman Rep. James Cantwell is a different man today than he was yesterday. The Marshfield double eagle switched his vote to help put Bobby DeLeo over the top with the sales tax increase. In return Cantwell got some goodies for Marshfield … [Read more...]

Deleo needs 107 votes to override Deval. right now, at 3;30 he has 97. He is strongarming members during a recess. Call your rep and demand they stay with Deval Congrats to DeLeo All by himself and in record time he brought Deval back from … [Read more...]

Nothing worse then being a one term rep. Elected by the people only to be fired at the very first performance review. In the Beacon Hill world of has beens the one term rep is a never was. Speaker Deleo has indicated that the members … [Read more...]

You see Kelly was making good money off the treasury office when Bob Crane (not Col. Hogan) was in charge. Being Crane's creation Kelly had a nice business doing bond deals. So Kelly gets hooked up with Cahill. His Quincy neighbor. Cahill, … [Read more...]

His leadership team is untested. Ways and Means delivered a stripped down budget. like he wanted. OK Bobby, now what? You do have a plan, don't you? If you do then the leadership team and the members don't appreciate you keeping it to your … [Read more...]

Kudos to Globe correspondent J M lawrence for this awsome story. So many themes can be found in this slice of life playing out in Quincy over the last 63 years. What makes it great is that it is not all that unusual. Especially in a country … [Read more...]