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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Charlie Baker couldn’t be elected dog catcher as a Republican in wide red swaths of our country. For evidence, look at just the last 24 hours. Our Republican governor is expanding diversity in businesses contracting with the state, widening…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. It takes a strong woman, a person of standing, experience, intellect and courage to change her mind in the public arena. No, I’m not talking about Hillary Clinton. I’m talking about another Wellesley College graduate, Diane…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Hillary Clinton is back, in large part because debate preparation matters. And she does it well. The woman who has been dogged by questions about her failure to use separate servers for official and personal purposes…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. No news here: People are increasingly fed up with Washington, with the political parties and with politicians. Three quarters of the American people disapprove of Congress, and the favorability rating of that august body ranges from 14 percent to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today’s Boston Globe reports on the naming of former Olympic Gold Medal winner Tenley Albright to the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Albright’s is a wonderful story of accomplishment, from polio victim to champion ice skater to Harvard Medical…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Would Donald Trump tone down his junior high school playground bombast? Or, for that matter, would he say anything substantive in response to a policy question? Would Jeb Bush show some “cojones” in confronting Trump? Would Carly Fiorina…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When late CBS newsman Daniel Schorr was asked about his move from radio to television, he reportedly observed, “If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.” It’s in that spirit, and mindful of her declining poll…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Federal Judge Richard Berman nullified Tom Brady’s four-game suspension Thursday, and suddenly all was right with the world. Signs at the final preseason game declared with relief “Tom Brady is Free” and “Richard Berman for President.” Why not? Even…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It would be very tempting to leap to support the Green Line extension through Somerville to Medford. After all, anything that modernizes our nation’s oldest mass transit system is a good thing, and this particular plan was promised…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Slain WDBJ reporter Alison Parker’s father, Andy Parker, has become the latest grieving parent calling for gun control. We are all seduced by the notion that simply understanding the impact on real people of the failure to…
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