I never really knew the Old Man of the Mountain. I never served with him. The Old Man of the Mountain was never a friend of mine.
But I can still say with confidence, regarding the jagged granite profile left after some construction blasting in Fremont, N.H.: You’re no Old Man of the Mountain.
Sorry to be [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Lawrence police Chief John Romero was at the Eagle-Tribune’s office Tuesday. The chief, a die-hard Yankees fan, couldn’t resist getting in a few digs at me over his team’s surge to within four games of the Red Sox.
However Romero confessed he doesn’t think this year is a repeat of 1978, when the Sox blew a [...]
The Drudge Report today has a link to a story titled: “The new public enemy Number One: bottled water.”
Just remember that you read it here first.
As casino gambling slowly becomes more of a, uh, sure bet in Massachusetts, all of you wannabe high rollers may want to keep track of the hypocrisy meter at the Statehouse. In our recent survey, only four legislators from the region - Reps. Barry Finegold, D-Andover; Barbara L’Italien, D-Andover; and Anthony Verga, D-Gloucester; plus Sen. [...]
One of the best reads of the summer is “Cape Wind” by magazine reporter Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb, editorial page editor of the Providence Journal.
Subtitled, “Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound,” it’s a fascinating tale about the bruising fight waged over energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon’s to [...]
Where can I get a deal like that? Part 3
Posted in Ken Johnson, Pension Tidal Wave on Aug 9th, 2007 Comments
In response to a previous post on pensions, Shawn D. of Quincy said:
Ken,
While it seems that a lot of time and effort went into the pension series, you guys missed a few very important points. Key to this whole discussion should be the fact that public employees, hired after July 1994, are funding their entire [...]
Bill Mugford of Middleton called this morning to offer his thoughts on the recent Eagle-Tribune series on public pensions. He’s viewed the situation from both sides — as a member of the town’s board of selectmen and an employee of its highway department.
He commended the papers for exposing the greed and exploitation that beset the [...]
Meanwhile, over in the GOP race
Posted in 5th District race, Nelson Benton on Aug 8th, 2007 Comments
The Democratic candidates in the race for Marty Meehan’s seat in Congress have shared the stage so often, any one of them could probably recite another’s stock lines.
That’s not the case over on the Republican side where Tom Tierney has appeared a half-dozen times with the Democrats but, according to him, has yet to meet [...]
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 [...]
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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