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Halloween morning Middlesex Community College staffers (friends and family too) participated in Lowell’s Monster Dash. Well, the dash is not really a dash..it is actually a duathlon. Contestants ran 3.1 miles, biked 14.1 miles then finished off with another 3.1 mile run. The race started at the Lowell Elks on…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. More than 30 years ago, housing activists in Newton, mindful that young adults who had grown up in town couldn’t afford to live there and that elderly homeowners couldn’t afford to find replacements for their homes, set about…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Condoleezza Rice was in Boston yesterday promoting her new family memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. Often lampooned on Saturday Night Live, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush is anything but a stick figure. She is charming,…
Read More »His name is Jimmy McMillan and he is running for governor of New York as the nominee of the “Rent is Too Damn High” Party. And even with heavy hitters little Andrew Cuomo and Carl Paladino on the stage, Jimmy steals the show. McMillan, nicknamed Rambo, Papa Smurf, and The…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ground Hog Day” is how Boston University AssistantProfessor John Carroll, speaking on Jim Braude’s debate analysis on NECN, described last night’s debate. Helicopter into the debate at any point and you know you’ve been here before. The only…
Read More »Senator Scott Brown, you should be ashamed of yourself. Yesterday afternoon while driving home from work I heard this radio ad below on WRKO. It is Scott Brown reaffirming his support for Republican congressional candidate, Jeff Perry. Yes, the same Jeff Perry that did nothing while a fourteen year old…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. She’s likable, informed and, as a Republican on a Democrat saturated Beacon Hill, has a claim to being an outsider, were it not for her tenure working for Joe Malone and Mitt Romney. Mary Zarilli…
Read More »As Dick posted last night AP reporter Glen Johnson uncovered a memo written in 1998 by gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker, then Governor Paul Cellucci’s Director of Administration and Finance. Here are several astounding quotes taken directly from Johnson’s article: As he concluded his tenure as budget chief in Massachusetts, Republican…
Read More »This video, put out by the Sean Bielat for Congress campaign, is causing quite a buzz. But there is an even bigger buzz being generated by the insulting remarks made by Ladd Ehlinger, the producer of the YouTube video. Ehlinger said “A television ad, you’re buying all the fat, lazy…
Read More »In my post yesterday I mentioned how I thought this was one CRAZY election year…and the video below only goes to prove what I am feeling. Here Republican candidate for US Senate Christine O’Donnell spars with her opponent over whether the Constitution addresses the separation of church and state. This…
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