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 had not, until the summit, fulfilled a campaign promise that the debate over health [...]
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 disgraceful and an attack on their collective bargaining rights that the state is [...]
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 away from his happy face in TV ads bringing oil from that [...]
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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