We're not hearing much about it - thanks to the depleted State House press corps, we aren't hearing about most of the stuff happening on Beacon Hill - but sometime between now and November, we're going to get the chance to debate the … [Read more...]
NH prediction
Cross-posted at Holmes & Co. It won't be close. The template for the Democratic campaign is 1968. Hillary Clinton is Hubert Humphrey, the candidate of the party establishment. Among Democrats, Humphrey was respected, but not … [Read more...]
Trouble with Santa
We talked probably longer than we should have, occasionally in tones that were unworthy of Christmas Eve. We realized as much and cut off the argument. She told me she was canceling her subscription, but it also sounded like she was getting … [Read more...]
Deval and Da Speaka
Statehouse News Service reports Patrick aides Doug Rubin and Charlotte Golar-Richie held their first meeting Tuesday with two dozen state reps who endorsed Deval early in his campaign. The idea was to find out why the governor's agenda was … [Read more...]
Cheap parking thanks to the Pike
I know some BMG's are tired of hearing MetroWest folks complain about the inequity of charging Pike users tolls while others get their highways maintained without paying anything more than gas tax.But today's whine in the MetroWest Daily … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick in Framingham
Gov. Deval Patrick spent an hour Tuesday with the editorial board of the MetroWest Daily News. You can watch some highlights here. … [Read more...]
Silencing Imus
Shortly after 9/11, Bill Maher noted that calling the hijackers "cowards" was inaccurate since they apparently were not afraid to die."People had better watch what they say," said Ari Fleisher, White House press secretary, and Bill … [Read more...]
Liberal values and Mass. Pike tolls
Traditional interest-group politics is a numbers game, with the benefits going to groups or regions who have the most voters and political clout. Hence the Legislature has gotten away with making Mass. Pike tollpayers pay a disproportionate … [Read more...]
MW editorial slams Patrick on amendment statement
If the Legislature had followed those procedures, allowing the anti-gay- marriage amendment to be brought to a vote "of the ayes and nays," that vote would have been about whether a prohibition against same-sex marriage should be put to the … [Read more...]