Posted in The Soap Box on Feb 4th, 2010 Comments Off
Seems like I remember Joe Kennedy always starting to run his Joe4Oil ads at the beginning of the heating season – you know, in November. But this year, I hadn’t seen much of anything until late last month, when suddenly I couldn’t get…
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Posted in Local politics, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Feb 4th, 2010 Comments Off
I’m vowing never to say anything negative about Lawrence Mayor Willie Lantigua. Otherwise, he might never talk to me again.
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What a miracle an election year is. House Speaker Robert DeLeo is suddenly on our side, suddenly posing as a hawk on tax increases. I’m surprised he hasn’t taken a temporary membership with Citizens for Limited Taxation. The speaker declare…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Jan 21st, 2010 Comments Off
As others have pointed out, there’s an interesting coattail effect developing with President Barack Obama. He goes to Virginia to campaign for the Democrat and the Republican wins. He goes to New Jersey to campaign for the Democrat and the Republ…
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Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Jan 14th, 2010 Comments Off
The Rev. Pat Robertson is dangerous. Not because he’s going to hurt you or anyone else. He is dangerous first because he has a megaphone – his own TV show, The 700 Club, from which he can spew the kind of judgmental venom that he did this w…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Jan 13th, 2010 Comments Off
The silly season is becoming more entertaining every day, as we close in on the special election for the open U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. Democrats, led by President Obama, claim they have nothing to do with special-interest lobbyists. But a gro…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Jan 13th, 2010 Comments Off
I’m sure all of you have wondered many times what we lofty journalists mean when we talk about “Astroturf.” The boring explanation is that it is a fake “grassroots” letter-writing campaign, where some special interest grou…
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Posted in Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Jan 12th, 2010 Comments Off
So, Mark McGwire “came clean.” He used steroids during the 1990s, including 1998 when he hit 70 homers. I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am to hear that. But, of course, he’s not really coming clean. That is not shocking ei…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Jan 5th, 2010 Comments Off
Looks like the mayoral inaguration of Willie Lantigua in Lawrence was the biggest, hottest, bestest in the region. I mean, who else had Gov. Deval Patrick there to swear him in? And just in case anyone had any doubts, Lantigua reminded them of his grea…
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Posted in The Soap Box on Jan 4th, 2010 Comments Off
So, did you read today that Republican Sen. and former presidential candidate John McCain is endorsing Republican Scott Brown for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Ted Kennedy? Big news, right? Almost as big as Democratic Pre…
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