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Non-story of the week

February 8, 2006 By David

Yesterday's Globe brought us this ridiculous story that is apparently supposed to call into question Deval Patrick's finances.  According to the story, the Atlanta bank holding a mortgage on the Patricks' Milton home delayed filing the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, massachusetts, vote-9.16.2006

Correction of the week

February 8, 2006 By David

From today's NY Times:Because of an editing error, a recipe last Wednesday for meatballs with an article about foods to serve during the Super Bowl misstated the amount of chipotle chilies in adobo to be used. It is one or two canned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: random

Weekly traffic report

February 5, 2006 By David

Holy cow.  This joint is jumpin', folks.  This week was our biggest ever - over 10,000 unique visitors, the first time we've cleared that hurdle.  Comments and user posts are off the charts.  Over 60 new registered users … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bmg, random, traffic

Caucus OPEN THREAD

February 4, 2006 By David

Tell us where you are and what you're seeing!UPDATE (11:30 pm): WOW!!!  You guys are amazing.  To my knowledge, this thread is the single best collection of publicly available information on the caucuses right now.  There are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: caucuses, massachusetts, vote-9.16.2006

Why the Reilly/St. Fleur fiasco matters

February 3, 2006 By David

Sure, it's early.  Sure, a lot of voters aren't really paying attention to the race yet, and sure, Tom Reilly has lots of time to recover, blah blah blah.But at the end of the day, this race isn't about who runs the slickest campaign, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: governor, massachusetts, tom-reilly, vote-9.16.2006

And the hilarity continues

February 2, 2006 By David

Apparently, state Republicans have nothing better to do with their financial resources than print up fake Reilly-St. Fleur bumper stickers and hand them out at the State House.  Said Healey aide and would-be wag Tim O'Brien, "You never … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: massachusetts, tom-reilly, vote-9.16.2006

For the record: Deb Goldberg’s family no longer runs Stop & Shop

February 2, 2006 By David

Yesterday's release of a health care study showing heavy use of the state-funded uncompensated care pool and MassHealth programs by employees of large employers - and of Stop & Shop in particular - led Charley to ask why Lieutenant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deborah-goldberg, lg, massachusetts, vote-9.16.2006

Alito update

February 2, 2006 By David

Oh, by the way - there is news in the world that doesn't concern the Massachusetts Governor's race!  Last night Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote (p. 4) in a matter that wasn't decided unanimously.  He sided … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: law-and-lawyers, national, supreme-court

So, anything interesting in the papers this morning?

February 2, 2006 By David

As a public service, I thought I'd set up a collection of the voluminous reporting and commentary on the Reilly/St. Fleur fiasco that showed up in today's papers, with some money quotes as appropriate.  The consensus from reporters and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: lg, massachusetts, tom-reilly, vote-9.16.2006

Deval Patrick also had a tax problem a decade ago

February 1, 2006 By David

R.D. Sahl on NECN just read a statement issued by Deval Patrick on the subject of tax problems.  I didn't get the full text of it, but the gist was that about a decade or so ago, Patrick and his wife entered into an installment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deval-patrick, massachusetts, vote-9.16.2006

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