Posted in Local politics, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Aug 16th, 2010 Comments Off
Some interesting one-upmanship is going on in the always entertaining but increasingly risky game of chicken being played in Lawrence over Fire Department staffing. Over the weekend, Mayor Willie Lantigua finally agreed to tear himself away from his tw…
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They all do it – both Republicans and Democrats point fingers elsewhere to avoid any blame when things go wrong, and leap in front of the camera when there’s a chance to take credit for something good. But, as your mom probably told you, &#…
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Posted in State issues, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Apr 21st, 2010 Comments Off
Looks like we’re raising up the next generation right – teaching them to buy into the Democratic gospel that jobs are created by the government. So, obviously, the way to get a job is not to search the want ads and apply for openings, but t…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Mar 24th, 2010 Comments Off
Sometimes the truth tends to leak out in unexpected ways. According to the State House News Service, state Rep. Michael Moran, D-Boston, co-chair of the Election Laws Committee, was describing the multiple challenges of redrawing the district lines for…
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Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Mar 24th, 2010 Comments Off
Gotta thank VP Joe Biden for injecting some of his peerless comic idiocy into what was otherwise a very depressing day for the future generations of whatever half-baked America he and President Barack Obama will be leaving. By now, virtually everybody …
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No surprise, the Connector Authority board, which oversees insurance programs under RomneyCare, the 2006 health care law, was not pleased at comments by state Treasurer and unenrolled gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill that Obamacare could bankrupt the…
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More tales from the abuse of plain language at the Statehouse: Chapter 9,621. The bottom line is that the infamous Hack Holidays – Evacuation Day (which happens to fall on St. Patrick’s Day, but so named to give it some alleged historical f…
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I know that all of our local reps and senators have to express horror and high dudgeon at the prospect of New Hampshire putting toll booths just inside its borders on Interstate 93. If they didn’t, their constituents might actually get angry enou…
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Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Feb 26th, 2010 Comments Off
As everybody who stayed awake long enough to watch it has said, the president’s summit on health care on Thursday was boring and predictable. Still, there were a few classic moments. One was when Sen. John McCain complained that President Obama h…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Feb 4th, 2010 Comments Off
Too bad that Gov. Deval Patrick backed out of his scheduled appearance at the AFL-CIO annual conference in Plymouth, just because a bunch of angry police unions were picketing. He would have gained much more than he lost. The cops consider it disgracef…
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