From the ChiTrib:Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $25 million dollars during the first quarter for his presidential campaign, a total surprisingly close to the $26 million collected by his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. … [Read more...]
Property tax crisis looming
Today's Globe has a must-read article on the dozens of upcoming Prop. 2-1/2 override votes whose sole purpose is to crank up local property taxes because local governments have no other way to pay for schools, teachers, and cops.Across the … [Read more...]
Warming to Senate President Murray
I have to say that I love this story about the infamous Faneuil Hall signing ceremony for the health care bill.[Senator Therese] Murray had privately fumed over Governor Mitt Romney's elaborate ceremony, as did other Democratic legislative … [Read more...]
SJC: no First Amendment right of public access to “show cause” hearings
The Supreme Judicial Court today rejected the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune newspaper's argument that the First Amendment guaranteed it the right to attend a "show cause" hearing, at which a clerk-magistrate decides whether there is sufficient … [Read more...]
More on sports and race
EB3 got quite a discussion going with his point about the non-presence of African-Americans in the Red Sox organization. Today the Globe writes a similar story -- but about Harvard University.Harvard University, which prides itself on … [Read more...]
There’s a really important story in today’s Globe …
and it's not Frank Phillips' latest front-page exercise in bogosity (bo-gos'-i-ty. n: the state or condition of being bogus), already discussed here. No, I'm talking about a story by Lisa Wangsness that ran at the very bottom of page … [Read more...]
More bad cancer news
From AP:Presidential spokesman Tony Snow's surgery to remove a small growth showed that his cancer has returned and spread to his liver, the White House said Tuesday....Snow, 51, had his entire colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months … [Read more...]
Still not getting it
We BMGers are fans of the political reporting at the Phoenix, despite our occasional disagreements. So I found these comments over at David S. Bernstein's "Talking Politics" blog to be, well, surprising and disappointing … [Read more...]
More details emerge on Romney’s duplicity
Excellent reporting by the LA Times today on slick Willard Romney."You need someone like me in Washington," he said, according to [Deborah] Allen and two other abortion-rights activists, whose group was deciding whether to endorse Romney in … [Read more...]
Noteworthy in Sunday’s Globe
A very interesting article by Scott Helman on the Arlington Group, a shadowy coalition of extreme right-wing organizations, including, of course, Focus on the Family (James Dobson) and the Family Research Council (Tony Perkins). If … [Read more...]
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