He promised us 10 minutes.  He gave us 30.  Charley, Bob and I just got off a fascinating and wide-ranging conference call with Mass. Gov candidate Deval Patrick.  We talked housing, health care, construction, political … [Read more...]

I started by asking why Deval was bothering to reach out so directly to folks like us.  He responded that he is consciously running "a different kind of campaign."  He said that he has seen many good people give up on … [Read more...]

David began by asking: Why talk to blogs? Like a good writer, Patrickmoved from general to specific: He spoke of running "a different kindof campaign", one that appeals to people's optimism and sense of shareddestiny, instead of … [Read more...]

Brian McGrory asks Rick Santorum's spokesman about the Senator's "Boston makes priests rape kids" column:''It's an open secret that you have Harvard University and MIT thattend to tilt to the left in terms of academic … [Read more...]

Still getting my blogging mojo back from the July 4th weekend, and discovering the TPMCafe Health Care table ... Dork Rampage! Naturally, I'm thrilled. Seriously, it's actually pretty readable.Anyway, a loooonngg time ago, back when I was a … [Read more...]

The issue of gay marriage in particular, and homosexuality in general, continues to sow deep divisions among Protestant denominations.  The Episcopal Church's near-schism over the ordination of the openly gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of … [Read more...]

Thanks to sco for an excellent post on recent TV appearances by DemGov candidates Tom Reilly and Deval Patrick.  Both candidates are still speaking largely in generalities - understandable at this stage - but it sounds to me as though … [Read more...]

Ah yes, to "clean up the mess on Beacon Hill", riiight. Although it would seem that MA voters are doing pretty well at that on their own (with a big assist from Tom Finneran's mouth.)Sco at .08 Acres points to this bullet-pointed … [Read more...]

''There really doesn't seem to be any reason why there can't be ahealth plan that people who work in small businesses or who areself-employed can buy through the federal government," Bullett said. [She makes $34k/year, two … [Read more...]