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Archive for August 7th, 2007

Bold? Try “vapid”

Posted in 5th District race, Ken Johnson on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments

Barry Finegold, Democratic candidate for the 5th District congressional seat, supposedly has some top party operatives working on his campaign.
You wouldn’t know it from his latest press release, which was inane even by the lax standards of the genre.
In his statement titled “Eight Bold Steps to Move Our Country Forward” Finegold says,
“I’m not running to [...]

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The next Big Bad Thing

Posted in Ken Johnson on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments

You may have noticed that the people who like to tell you how to live your life (read: “liberals”) are turning bottled water into the next Big Bad Thing.
There is a familiar pattern here: An interest group — usually with a name starting with “The Center for …” — puts out a pseudoscientific report identifying [...]

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Essex Aggie & Casino?

Posted in Nelson Benton on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments

Gambling is increasingly being viewed as the answer to all the Bay State’s problems.
Cities and towns are addicted to the revenue raised by the Massachusetts Lottery, and now casino gambling is being viewed as a means of funding everything from biotech research to an extension of commuter rail to the South Coast.
So why not use [...]

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Powerless? Hardly

Posted in Taylor Armerding on Aug 7th, 2007 Comments

Are school committees across Massachusetts truly powerless? Are they simply a leftover anachronism from that simpler, less expensive time before Education Reform?
According to Lawrence School Committee member James Vittorioso, they are. Vittorioso, who has no opposition going into this fall’s election, tells Eagle-Tribune reporter Mark Vogler that there are “at least 1,000″ people in the [...]

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