Peter Blute has decided not to lose a US Senate race to Ted Kennedy, but "could be persuaded" to run for Lt. Gov., especially if Christy Mihos asked him. AP has the details.Mihos/Blute. Oh please oh please. … [Read more...]
Would-be Senator Anthony Galluccio faces reopened drunk driving inquiry
This is a truly remarkable story. A lawyer named Ed Prisby, who writes at an interesting blog called Prizblog, was involved in an accident a couple of months ago in which a car driven by Anthony Galluccio, currently a Cambridge City … [Read more...]
Good reading in the Herald
Today's Herald has several pieces worth checking out.This terrific story about the fact that Mitt Romney has been outsourcing Massachusetts jobs to - get this - Utah. [Insert your own joke here.]This story on Middlesex DA candidate … [Read more...]
Local GOoPers form circular firing squad
From today's Herald:Former Bay State Republican chief Jim Rappaport blasted the state GOP yesterday as an "incestuous" insiderâs club rife with "incompetence" that is choking off support for the minority party. "The absolute, total … [Read more...]
More on the UAE/ports deal
From today's Christian Science Monitor:"What we're seeing is a very unfortunate knee-jerk reaction in terms of the Muslim world," says Lester Lave, an economist at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, noting … [Read more...]
Good God, could George W. Bush be right?
So here's the story, as I understand it. Until recently, a British company (P&O Port), managed port operations at major ports in six American cities, including New York. That company has now been bought by a state-owned … [Read more...]
Two big resignations
Doug Foy, the former head of the Conservation Law Foundation who Mitt Romney hired to be his head of development, is resigning. Romney surprised a lot of people when he hired Foy - many thought that a pro-business Republican like … [Read more...]
Welcome Herald readers!
If you first heard of this site from today's Boston Herald article by Kimberly Atkins and have stopped by to check us out, welcome! Our posts on the Chris Gabrieli issue, discussed in Atkins's article, are here and here. You … [Read more...]
Herald: blogs are changing political discourse
Be sure to check out this nice article in today's Herald by Kimberly Atkins. She discusses the flap over the Gabrieli signature ruling - and how "if you weren't on the Internet, you probably missed it." Atkins quotes yours … [Read more...]
Free air time: a better campaign finance reform
There's been a lot of talk lately about public financing of political campaigns. Personally, I'm skeptical. A true system of public financing would be phenomenally expensive, and I doubt that most Americans want to see that many … [Read more...]
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