Well, maybe it wasn't the signs, but with a name like John Lawn, wouldn't you expect some kind of word play? In any case, Watertown "town" councillor John Lawn defeated Republican Jim Dixon to win Peter Koutoujian's statehouse seat … [Read more...]
Nothing happened during the BMG outage
Fortunately you picked a quiet news weekend to shut down the site for the grand conversion to WordPress. Of course, Alan Khazei has now joined Bob Massie in the race for the coveted Gabrieli trophy. The Gabrieli trophy goes to candidates … [Read more...]
Howard Dean was right.
We need a 50 state strategy. … [Read more...]
Scott Brown’s (Lowell) Sunburn
The Lowell Sun is a lively, controversial, and reliably conservative newspaper. Pretty solid part of the Scott Brown base, you say? Not really, at least not today. Check out some of the comments about Scott Brown in today's editorial. … [Read more...]
WWTD: What would Teddy (Roosevelt) do on this Presidents’ Day?
One can only imagine Teddy's response to the tinhorn dictator who has seized the statehouse in Madison. The Rough Riders would be charging up the isthmus to Capitol Square. No, he would clearly confront the newly-minted demagog … [Read more...]
Sorry, only one Tsunami per customer
Lesson. These votes to punish incumbents, to punish Democrats, have been cast. The Democrats have been punished. No sense doing that again. In fact, the reality is that voters are going to be looking at some wacky … [Read more...]
Douglas C. Neidermeyer for Governor (with poll)
Watching the debate, and I am watching Deval Patrick, Tim Cahill, Jill Stein, and who's that other guy? Is that Douglas C Neidermeyer? We have been told he was killed in Vietnam by his own troops, but I wonder. I am sitting … [Read more...]
Cash Watch: Federal $ to MA Schools
I remember the last time the legislature was concerned about cuts to K-12 education, and the senate tossed additional money into the Chapter 70 formula late in the budget process. Town meeting season was over, and the municipal folks … [Read more...]
Education lobbist against teacher $ bill
Here's a pair of messages from Marc Kenen, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Charter School Association. posted 07/16/2010 Early next week The United States Senate will debate an appropriations bill that includes a new $10 billion … [Read more...]
WGBH-FM: Dead air
For the third time this week, I got in the car and the radio (tuned to WGBH-FM 89.7) was singing a song of signal-free static. The two earlier static spectaculars came between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. Today's 100% content free experience came … [Read more...]
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