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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I voted early yesterday. Ten minutes before the City Hall polling place was to open a line was forming. Quickly 50 or 60 people joined the line. The stream was constant. To the extent that there was…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Neighborhood House Charter School in the Dorchester section of Boston is a prime example of why more children should have access to charter school education. That’s the goal of Question 2 on the November ballot, allowing the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. AP photo It’s about time. Federal prosecutors have finally asked for the early release of former Mass. House Speaker Sal DiMasi from a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina. DiMasi was convicted on seven out of nine corruption charges and sentenced to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s video of Donald Trump, showing lewd behavior, coarse language, gutter-level attitude toward women and boasts of Bill Cosby-like predatory actions, shows nothing new about this extreme misogynist. Perhaps the video shocks because it so starkly portrays his fundamental character…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Dear Jacob, This is your first Presidential election, and I know you understand the importance of your vote – especially since you’re casting your ballot from college in Ohio rather than in Massachusetts. You, as did so many…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Call it the big Whew! After weeks of shrinking polls numbers for Hillary Clinton and small but steady gains in momentum for Donald Trump, voters were finally able to see them one on one. What they saw…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Monday night’s Clinton/Trump debate won’t be Lincoln/Douglas. No Demosthenes or Cicero here. Even if the candidates were inclined to that level of discourse, the American public would probably not be prepared to give it the time or…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. By all accounts, the City of Boston should be proud of the relationship between its men and women in blue and the community. Police Commissioner William Evans, a consummate professional, not only “gets it,” but he authentically cares about…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Some fans are burning jerseys to protest San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s decision to sit and not stand for the National Anthem to protest inequitable treatment of blacks in America. He wants to call attention to racial injustice and police…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. With Labor Day around the corner, I’m indulging in reading rather than writing. In my last blog posting, I shared some of the fiction I’ve read this summer. In today’s blog are some non-fiction suggestions, a mixed bag.…
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