This summer I mentioned that I was surprised that Bernie Sanders hadn't opposed Question 2. After all, the question is quintessence of corporate overreach. I'm happy to report that Senator Sanders has waded into Massachusetts politics and … [Read more...]

Let me say that I've talked to President Clinton. We had a good visit, and I congratulated him. . . .campaign that the President was my opponent and not my enemy. And I wish him well, and I pledge my support in whatever advances the cause … [Read more...]

Charter schools drain millions from public schools, turn over a high percentage of teachers every year, lose half of their students by graduation, charter schools present an important problem for the Commonwealth: approval and … [Read more...]

Why do we award tax dollars to schools owned by sketchy foreign entities with an anti-semitic past? Turkish politics rarely makes a blip in the American media. Modern Turkey, which formed after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the 1920s, … [Read more...]

With the exception of our vote for president, our most important vote on November 8 will be the one we cast on Question 2. Most of our school systems are already short of money. In January or February, there's also a good chance that … [Read more...]

“So it was really important that I do it, for myself … I mean I really considered it strongly last time”  --Donald Trump A few weeks ago, I commented that Donald Trump had narcissistic personality disorder. My assertion was dismissed as … [Read more...]

"Listen, I run a bus company. We run an efficient bus company that's headquartered in Springfield, Mass. When you're looking at publicly subsidized rail service it absolutely can have an impact on our business." --Peter Picknelly, CEO … [Read more...]

“On one side of the scales you’ve got a ticket made up of two people with troubling attitudes towards the financial sector. On the other side, you’ve got maybe fascism. They are not even remotely of the same weight.” The Democratic … [Read more...]

Fatal Attraction was the swan song of the "woman scorned" movies. Much of the 20th century was spent telling the story in film and fiction of white, middle-class men confronted with the stress of romancing women not their wives and dealing … [Read more...]

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. --Deborah Tannen For the reality-based crowd--the crowd that believes in working toward … [Read more...]