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Back to substantive posting: down with the blue laws!

December 4, 2005 By David

I haven't done much substantive posting lately - between being quite busy at my day job and having my blog time eaten up by the conversion to the new platform, other things have fallen by the wayside.  But with the conversion pretty … [Read more...]

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User accounts on our new site

December 3, 2005 By David

Just in case you missed one of the announcements on the front page about user accounts:To post diaries or comments on this site, you have to be signed in.  If you want to make a new account, it's easy - just click the "make a new … [Read more...]

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The Events Calendar

December 3, 2005 By David

One of the new, fabulously cool features on our new site is the Events Calendar, which you should see on the left sidebar.  I'm hoping that if you know about a candidate forum, a fundraiser, a speech that folks might be interested in, … [Read more...]

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Welcome to the NEW Blue Mass. Group!

December 3, 2005 By David

This new site, which operates on a platform called soapblox, supports diaries, nested comments, and other features that you might be used to seeing at Daily Kos and other scoop sites.  However, to use most of them, you need to … [Read more...]

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Tim Murray in the Lt. Gov. race?

November 29, 2005 By David

Mariposa at Beyond 495 calls our attention to a most interesting tidbit in a holiday party invitation sent out by DDemDispatch: the invite notes that Worcester Mayor Tim Murray has confirmed his attendance in the capacity of candidate for … [Read more...]

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More thoughts on the Delahunt-Chavez oil deal

November 25, 2005 By David

Thanks to Ken at Dirty Water for noting a different take on the Delahunt-Chavez oil deal.  Steve Bailey, one of the Globe's business columnists, writes that he's no Bush fan, but he still doesn't like Hugo Chavez … [Read more...]

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Get the blue laws out of this blue state

November 25, 2005 By David

Please, please, will someone repeal our ghastly blue laws?  It's ridiculous enough that our chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General and would-be Governor Tom Reilly, had nothing better to do one day this week than to write a … [Read more...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

November 25, 2005 By David

I'm heading off to the homestead for the traditional gathering of family and friends, and the annual exercise in overeating.  I chipped in a donation to Rosie's Place this morning.  If you have a chance, pick a similarly worthy … [Read more...]

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Oh the huM&Mity!

November 24, 2005 By David

The NYT reports: In a replay of a similar 1997 incident, the M&M balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City flew out of control, struck a lightpost, and fell to the ground.  Two people suffered minor … [Read more...]

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Phoenix profiles O’Flaherty and Schiavone

November 24, 2005 By David

Adam Reilly (who else?) writes up an interesting piece on this very interesting race that pits Christopher Schiavone, a gay ex-priest, against incumbent Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty (D-Chelsea), a non-gay F-bomb-tossing Irishman (part of his … [Read more...]

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