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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…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. The newly elected president of Gambia had to be sworn in in Senegal, and Senegalese and other African military may be needed to force Gambia’s despotic president to relinquish power he’s held for 22 years. It was quite a contrast to events at…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Was it 50 or 60 times the GOP has voted to end Obamacare? With an incoming President who has called the law “a disaster,” the oft-repeated move can now become reality, and the Republicans own it. But their…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump’s egregiously right-wing nominee to be ambassador to Israel, his diplomatically challenged bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, may please Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But his nomination doesn’t augur well for growing divisions within the American Jewish community or American-Israeli…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s blog. As befits the season, here are some little gifts, selected headlines I’d like to see next year. I have little expectation they will top newspapers or tease newscasts. Still, a gal can dream. Please add your own in the comments section…
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