Sometimes the truth tends to leak out in unexpected ways. According to the State House News Service, state Rep. Michael Moran, D-Boston, co-chair of the Election Laws Committee, was describing the multiple challenges of redrawing the district lines for House and Senate seats – a job that he said will begin after lawmakers are sworn [...]
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 [...]
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 Republican wins. And he came to Massachusetts to campaign for the Democrat, and the Republican [...]
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 group of some of the most powerful, well-connected special-interest lobbyists held a fundraiser for [...]
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 group sends out a form letter to its supporters, urging them to put their name on it and then send [...]
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 greatness. “Leadership is here. You’re looking at him,” he declared. Kind [...]
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 President Obama favoring Democrat Martha Coakley.
Here’s another piece of evidence that, among public schools, charters are better than “regular” or district schools. The state’s Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester is calling for revocation of the charter of the Robert M. Hughes charter school in Springfield for “pervasive, systemic cheating at the behest of adults on MCAS exams, reports the State House [...]
A little lesson in the realities of law enforcement. The North Andover cops, told by a local couple that David Filli, owner of a mortgage company, had taken a $25,000 investment from them and then spent it on personal expenses, “asked” Filli to come down to the station to tell his side of the story. [...]
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