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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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Congressional leadership of the Democratic Party is going to change. It’s not a question of whether but how and when. Despite the best efforts of North Shore Congressman Seth Moulton, who is spearheading the movement to depose former…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Majorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Her emails are coming more frequently, especially in the wake of the midterm election. She is doing more interviews and being coy about whether there is another Presidential bid in her life. And before 2018 ballot counts were…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For two years, those turned off by Donald Trump and Republicans’ acquiescence to him have strategized to take back the House of Representatives and even, against great odds, the Senate. A great many worked to make that happen,…
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