Nine years ago yesterday, I signed up for a Typepad account, typed up a modest welcome message, and posted it on our brand new blog.  I imagine that maybe a dozen or so folks saw it - most of them related to Bob, Charley, or me. To be … [Read more...]

On Tuesday, the town of Milford will vote on whether to invite Foxwoods in.  There's apparently been no polling in the town, so nobody has any idea what's going to happen.  With the collapse of the Suffolk Downs plan, Milford suddenly looks … [Read more...]

remember the sacrifice of those who served. "Lacrimosa," from Benjamin Britten's monumental War Requiem. … [Read more...]

Two very good pieces in today's Globe.  (Ironic, right?  Now that the election is over, the Globe is running all this really interesting stuff.)  First, Yvonne Abraham's column, in which she talks to a Walsh voter who didn't vote in the … [Read more...]

As I'm fond of doing, I herewith offer some ideas on who won and lost last night, other than the people who actually won and lost. Winner: John Connolly.  No, he didn't win his election.  But he ran a solid, generally upbeat campaign, … [Read more...]

The Twitters are exploding: John Connolly has conceded the election to Marty Walsh. Looks like the at-large City Council seats will go Michelle Wu, Ayanna Pressley, Michael Flaherty, Steve Murphy.  That's an entirely predictable and, … [Read more...]

I'm not a huge Kevin Cullen fan, but it's about time someone at the Globe wrote this column.  My biggest complaint is that it was not written much earlier, and more frequently.  It's a damn shame that it took until election day, when it's … [Read more...]

I don't usually post stuff like this here, but this is such an amazing story that I'm making an exception.  The basic story reads almost like an Onion headline: two small airplanes over Wisconsin collided in midair and one of them burst … [Read more...]

In what is perhaps the least surprising endorsement in years, the Boston Globe endorsed John Connolly for Mayor today.  This was so pre-ordained that it would hardly be worth mentioning, but for some of what the Globe had to say. Right … [Read more...]