The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Vox.com As the polar vortex is about to recede, for now, we’re still stupefied by our esteemed President. He, who considers himself the smartest man in the world, recently tweeted, “What the hell is going on with…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I continue to be shocked by the extreme road rage exhibited Friday on the Mass. Pike by Mark Paul Fitzgerald, 37, of Ashland, and Richard Kamrowski, a 65-year-old Framingham man . After a side-swiping encounter, after which SUV…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newly elected Massachusetts 3rd district Congresswoman Lori Trahan has a warm smile and comes across as intelligent, charming, and poised. As a former chief of staff to Congressman Marty Meehan, Trahan also brings a dimension of Capitol Hill…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you want to hear everything our national government now is not, listen to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s state-of-the-city address. In a rousing half-hour speech at Symphony Hall, he credibly held out Boston as a model to be…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. It’s motif #1, the President bragging about having the biggest, being the smartest, (“I alone can fix it,”), master negotiator and uber deal maker. We can dispute his hyperbolic claims, but we all can agree that under…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I have to post quickly before events reactivate the despair and cynicism of the last two years. I felt a smile emerge when watching the swearing-in of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Imagine the…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire is one of our best portals to reliable news sources, with postings throughout the day. One of today’s posts reflects my own Trump/news fatigue, and Goddard’s short-term solution to it. In a note to his…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Fortune The menacing lion-like creature shook his orange mane, growled and chased me down the hill leading to the road where our house is. I sat bolt upright in bed, realizing it was just a bad dream…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You’re probably as sick of the daily news cycle as I am, despite the satisfaction of seeing the progress of the Mueller investigation. Still, I highly recommend House of Trump, House of Putin, by former Boston Magazine editor Craig…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When we mourn the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, we are mourning the passing of an era, a time when public service was an honor, military service was an important component, when politicians would reverse…