Here are some quick hits on recent events that I haven't had a chance to bloviate about at length.The Herald reported yesterday that AG/Gov candidate Tom Reilly signed a confidentiality agreement with Big Dig contractor Bechtel Parsons … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Mike Festa to endorse Gerry Leone for Middlesex DA
Rep. Mike Festa (D-Melrose) will announce tomorrow (Wednesday) that he is endorsing Gerry Leone for Middlesex County District Attorney, according to a source close to the Leone campaign. The source reports that Festa's announcement is … [Read more...]
Hey Adrian: check the website!
Adrian Walker has an interesting column in today's Globe about Saturday's Deval Patrick rally at Faneuil Hall, and about the Patrick campaign generally. The column strikes me as generally a decent assessment of where the Gov's race … [Read more...]
Today’s poll: Reilly vs. Patrick
I thought it would be interesting for everyone to take a look at the complete dataset on the Democratic primary for Governor from the poll that, as Ben notes below, is the subject of a front-page article in today's Globe:Here are a couple … [Read more...]
Green-Rainbow Party announces slate of candidates
A brief item in this Herald article reminds me that I was derelict in posting about the Green-Rainbow Party's slate of candidates for statewide office, announced earlier this week. They are:for Governor: Grace Rossfor Lt. Governor: … [Read more...]
Portrait of a city on the brink
The economic woes of central Massachusetts have drawn national attention, at least for a day. In today's NY Times, on the first page of the "National" section, is this long article about Springfield, Mass. The final vignette in … [Read more...]
A tough week in the Brown family
Yesterday, word leaked out that dark horse Reed Hillman had beaten out Scott Brown to be Kerry Healey's running mate.Today, word is that Scott's daughter Ayla was voted off of American Idol.No worries, though. Scott is still a … [Read more...]
Separated at birth?
I couldn't help noticing a certain similarity between our newest entrant into the Lieutenant Governor's race and a character in one of my favorite TV shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.The figure on the left is one of "The Gentlemen," from an … [Read more...]
The morning dish
Some headlines in today's papers that are worth your perusal:Reed Hillman, to be formally introduced today as Kerry Healey's running mate, was the head of the State Police during a particularly unfortunate episode in which pregnant troopers … [Read more...]
Liveblog of Harvard’s LG forum
Good stuff. Nice work, Harvard Dems. Interesting to see Goldberg talk so much about health care. Amusing to see the Sam Kelley manure-shoveling theme -- also comes across as the most enthusiastically liberal. I would agree that Silbert is … [Read more...]
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