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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Life under Donald Trump resembles what I would imagine a bad LSD trip to be. Psychedelically shocking news one day. Excruciating news the next. Today we awoke to an executive order ending a regulation that officials consider climate change when…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. colorbox.com graphic They say it’s DOA – that all Presidents’ budgets are dead on arrival. We might want to think this is just the opening gambit from the central player in The Art of the Deal, in this…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Twelve days in Florida were a therapeutic escape from grey snow and brutal cold in Massachusetts, but even in the Sunshine State one couldn’t escape the maladies of the political environment. A tour boat along the inland waterway near…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Getty Images Immigration advocates called President Barack Obama the “Deporter in Chief.” His administration deported record numbers of immigrants while Republican critics insist he was soft on illegals. Now comes Trump, with his vastly expanded list of immigrants who…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The news media aren’t perfect, to be sure, but now, as never before, they’re the living embodiment of Thomas Jefferson’s opinion that “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So, let me get this straight. It’s okay if Senator Ted Cruz calls Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate. But it’s not okay if Senator Elizabeth Warren reads letters critical of Attorney…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Set aside the friendships between Donald Trump and New England Patriots MVP quarterback Tom Brady, or coach Bill Belichick or owner Bob Kraft (who, as a young man, stood with his late wife as leading progressive Democrats), there’s still plenty of inspiration to be…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “We face a new reality in our relationship with the federal government,” and mayors, city councilors, state legislators, the public and the business community have to tackle the challenges together, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh told the business…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor Charlie Baker’s life is a balancing act – a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic state, a reasonable and enlightened moderate while the top of his party is anything but. With an entirely blue Congressional delegation, he will…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I hate being in large crowds but had to be at Boston Common yesterday for the local version of the Women’s March occurring in hundreds of cities around the nation and on all continents. As with anti-Vietnam…
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