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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I hope Les Moonves is happy. The head of CBS said that Donald Trump is great for business.“Donald’s place in this election is a good thing,” Moonves said at a conference Monday in San Francisco. Trump’s circus-like…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. For the past seven years, there’s been a second man in my life. His name? Elias P. Demetracopoulos, hereinafter referred to as Elias. I never met the man, but he figured importantly in our household. My husband, Jim Barron,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. A relaxing Florida vacation has made me even more of a techno-peasant than I usually am. The issue that now challenges me is the dilemma presented by Apple’s refusal to comply with the U.S. government’s request to facilitate access…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Remember when it seemed fairly certain that voters in November would have to choose between Clinton and Bush dynasties? Over the last nine months, voter anger and dissatisfaction have laid waste to that aura of inevitability on both sides of the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Suffolk University board members should be ashamed of themselves. They are passing up the chance to put the school back on the map as a proud and storied urban university and a meaningful player in greater Boston’s civic…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fox News may have missed Donald Trump. Its viewership was down to 11-13 million viewers, half what they got in the first debate last fall. (The Democrats’ debates have had only eight million viewers, thanks to DNC Chair…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Ed Markey’s 40+ year political career has come a long way. His biggest state legislative accomplishment (a bill eliminating part-time district attorneys) incurred the wrath of then-House Speaker Tommy McGee, who threw Markey off the Judiciary Committee and moved…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Brron’s own blog. Halfway through his first term, the Mayor of Boston and the city are looking good. Both Marty Walsh and the city have grown significantly over the past two years, as reflected in his State of the City speech…
Read More »The entry below i being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You had to be a 32nd degree political junkie to find and watch the last Democratic debate before the Iowa caucuses. Thanks to Hillary godmother and DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, last night’s Democratic debate had 7.8…
Read More »The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The past and future came together in the nation’s Capitol last night. It was a Paul Gauguin moment: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? The President of the United States gave the…
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