The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Jim Braude and Barbara Anderson Supporters and opponents of the late anti-tax advocate Barbara Anderson gathered Sunday in Randolph to remember her good natured individualism, civic activism, political savvy, professionalism and not insignificant success in lowering the tax burden…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. All three presidential candidates are pandering to voters on trade rather than educating them to the complexity of the issue. Demagoguing it, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders simplistically blame trade pacts for disappearing jobs and dimmed future prospects. Back…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Gonzalo Gallegos Polls make it clear that the American public is way ahead of Congress in supporting normalization of relations and reopening trade with Cuba. But positive numbers from several polls don’t mean that the normalization process will be easy or fast. That…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Bernie Sanders deserves credit for putting issues of economic inequities, Wall Street greed, Citizens United distortions, and the self-serving Washington establishment on the front burner. His cranky old man persona was even mildly endearing when he was railing…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Donald Trump will be the Republican Presidential nominee unless the sun over Cleveland rises from the West on July 18th. So what’s a newly defined “reasonable” Republican to do? People like the Bushes 41 and 43, Mitt Romney,…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts is a world-class laggard when it comes to public support of the arts, and things could get even worse. The Massachusetts House just cut funding for the Mass. Cultural Council (MCC) by $2 million, to $12.2 million. (Originally, House…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. from L.A. Times I have a friend. Let’s call her Suzannah. She is over six feet tall, blue-eyed, platinum hair in a page boy. Terrific set of gams, as my father would say. She’s married to a smart…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Have you ever wondered if the doctor who saw you in his office would recognize you if you met at the grocery? He or she might not, and it’s not just because you’re in street clothes. It might be…
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The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Storm clouds gathered over Serengeti, New York. The weaver birds and bee-eaters stopped their day’s work and gathered nervously in the limbs of the acacia trees. Even the flamingos out on Lake Nakuru stopped their soaring flight and…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Have you heard the latest? Senate President Mitch McConnell says the 24 Republican Senators who are up for reelection this fall will not vote on anything from now until January 3, 2017, when those elected this November…
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