Grace RossPerson of the Year: Grace Rossby Thomas E. KilduffDecember 28, 2006On Friday, December 1, Green/Rainbow party candidate whisked into a Beacon Hill cafí, clad in a blue ensemble and wrapped in one of her signature scarves. Her life … [Read more...]
Burns concedes Montana
AP reports Burns has conceded Montana … [Read more...]
How Massachusetts Can Help in the House: Meehan’s Millions
I lurk both here and over at MyDD, but a recent post there caught my eye. From Chris Bowers:Amidst all of this talk about taking out loans to fund key races and newly emerging races, not enough attention has been given to the huge amount of … [Read more...]
Healey’s hidden extremism
The truth about Healey is that she is the same exact kind of candidate the Republicans always run. She is not different. She does not belong to the quickly disappearing kind of moderate sensible Republican. She's of the new breed, the … [Read more...]
The 2006 zeitgeist: radicalized centrists
I voted for Bill Weld (don't see how voting for John Silber could possibly have been considered progressive, regardless of party designation). I've occasionally voted for other Republicans I considered moderate. I've given money to a … [Read more...]
Will Public Education determine the election outcome?
Pablo put up a very interesting post that led to a good discussion of federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and state Ed Reform. My response to a good comment on that thread by Publius got so long that I decided I better create new post … [Read more...]
Helping Tom Reilly Fundraise
But you can't keep a good dog down! Tom Reilly bounced back from that fiasco by pointing out his great record as Attorney General - a job he's had for years. He's such a fantastic Attorney General, he even drove Cardinal Law out of Boston! … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick and Killer Coke
The campaign must be really heating up now if we're seeing the first wave of outside groups getting involved. Today's Frank Phillips article shows that we haven't heard the last of Deval's role in corporate America. While I'm not quite sure … [Read more...]
Good Question by Bonifaz
On February 10, John Bonifaz called attention to Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations for possible voting rights violations in Springfield, Boston, Lawrence and Lowell. At the time, Secretary Galvin … [Read more...]
Deval Patrick and another corporate board
Today's Globe has a very interesting column on Deval Patrick's years on the UAL Corp. board. Much like the whole Ameriquest deal, it's about time that more light is shed on Deval's practices while in the private sector... … [Read more...]