As you know, after months of behind-closed-doors meetings, planning, and actually submitting a formal bid to the U.S. Olympic Committee for Boston to host the 2024 Olympic games, we finally had a public forum at which a representative of … [Read more...]

Right now (started at 7 pm), you can watch a discussion being held at the Institute of Contemporary Art between representatives of Boston 2024 (Juliette Kayyem) and No Boston Olympics (Chris Dempsey).  Here's the link. UPDATE: Well, that … [Read more...]

The celebrity websites are all atwitter with the news of Dorchester native and Hollywood megastar Mark Wahlberg's application for a pardon.  His crimes were ... well, here are a couple of excerpts from the original documents.  You be the … [Read more...]

It just sounds magical, doesn't it?  The perfect Olympic games.  Not a dime of public money expended, except on stuff we are planning to do anyway like upgrading the MBTA.  No white elephant stadiums - every event will take place either in … [Read more...]

That reassuring line appears in a Globe op-ed by Lawrence Harmon that ran a few days ago.  In Harmon's view, the sudden closure of the Long Island shelter, at which hundreds of homeless people and recovering drug addicts found refuge and … [Read more...]

Ten years ago today, a short post appeared on a new Typepad blog announcing a new venture: a website devoted to "commentary on politics and policy," mostly on Massachusetts topics.  Improbably, we're still here - and so are you. Blue … [Read more...]

Were you worried that, having been given a position in the Senate leadership, Elizabeth Warren would be coopted by the party establishment?  That she'd stop directing her criticism wherever it needed to go, regardless of party … [Read more...]

Inbox: Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Democratic Leader Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Assistant Democratic Leader Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Conference Vice Chair and DPCC Chair Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Democratic … [Read more...]

I gave Ed Markey a lot of crap this year for aggressive fundraising when, it seemed to me (and the election results bore this out), he was never in any serious danger of losing his seat.  One of my criticisms was that I wished he had spent … [Read more...]