State Sen. Steven Baddour met with members of The Eagle-Tribune editorial board today to talk about a number of matters, mostly related to our crumbling transportation infrastructure.
But we are just four days out from the primary for the 5th District congressional seat, so naturally, talk turned to politics.
Baddour supports Lowell City Councilor Eileen Donoghue – [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Nice to hear Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards calling for Americans to give up their SUVs.
But somewhat surprising to hear that he made that exhortation in front of a “labor group.” Surely that labor group would not have been the United Auto Workers, I thought. Sure enough, it wasn’t.
I’m ready to heed the call. Actually, [...]
Count on the U.S. Census Bureau to provide numbers suitable for just about anyone’s political purpose.
Take this week’s report on family finances.
There was good news for the Bush White House in the finding that the nation’s poverty rate had declined from 12.6 percent in 2005 to 12.3 percent last year. Also encouraging was the fact [...]
It appears Salem (MA) Mayor Kim Driscoll has another tiger by the tail in the effort to include Salem Common as one of the venues for Haunted Happenings events this October.
When she first approached neighbors about allowing Fiesta Shows to put children’s rides within the historic park’s boundaries, she made it clear she was not [...]
August provides a perfect example of why one cannot look out one’s window and make pronouncements about global warming.
Today and tomorrow, it’s expected to be seasonably hot and humid here. But by early next week, we’re supposed to be back into the 70s. Overall, this has been a miserably cold August in New England.
But ask [...]
This would be funny, if the business at hand was not serious.
The primary election process was supposed to be about candidates for each party having several months to woo voters in the various states, in various parts of the country. The theory, which made sense, was that this was the best chance for each party [...]
Oh, please.
The Niki Tsongas truth squad is overreaching a bit with its attempt to take a bite of of prime primary rival Eileen Donoghue in the waning days of the campaign to see which Democrat makes the ballot in the final election to replace Marty Meehan in the Fifth Congressional District.
Donoghue reported to the Federal [...]
Count me among those unimpressed with the recent decision by Lawrence officials to print the fiscal 2008 municipal budget in both English and Spanish.
Why? Take it from a former president whose profile is atop Mount Rushmore along with those of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln:
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who [...]
State Treasurer Tim Cahill is expected to endorse Niki Tsongas’ candidacy for Congress at a press conference in Lowell today.
Cahill’s nod adds to the air of inevitability the brains behind the Tsongas campaign have sought to give her bid almost since the day she entered the race for Marty Meehan’s seat. And the strategy appears [...]
I’m driving up Dale Street in North Andover this morning, past Smolak Farm. I come around a curve, and ahead of me I see the road has been closed due to paving. There are several barricades across the street. There is a sign that says “Road Closed.” There is an arrow pointing left, telling me [...]
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