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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. That shame came to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams only recently is probably the most surprising news of all. He is the ultimate expression of the celebrity newsperson, overpaid, overdressed, overexposed, over-inclined to be an entertainer all the while asserting a claim…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. California is sometimes thought of as la-la land, so it shouldn’t surprise us that it is the epicenter of the irrational parental movement against immunization. The shocking map of the resulting outbreak of measles, a disease virtually eradicated…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Three Massachusetts Speakers indicted, the most recent, Sal De Masi, sent to the slammer for eight years. With Massachusetts reeling from the scandalous pattern, Representative Bob DeLeo became the man of the hour in 2009 when, on becoming…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. To enjoy the performance at the movies and in theater, audience members often have to suspend their connection with reality. So, too, with another form of entertainment, professional football. Is it really possible that Bill Bellichik and Tom Brady,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If you’re one of Boston’s 18,000 municipal employees, you just lost some important First Amendment rights. If your paycheck says your employer is the City of Boston, your boss, Mayor Marty Walsh, has contractually barred you from saying…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Driving down the Mass Pike the day after Boston was tapped for the 2024 U.S. summer Olympics bid, there on the WGBH electronic billboard, the five Olympic rings logo against our beautiful skyline. A frisson of excitement. Wow;…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. In Paris on Sunday more than 1.3 million people solemnly marched a cold and windy 3.2 kilometers from La Place de la Republique to La Place de la Nation The crowd moved along the symbolically significant Boulevard Voltaire,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The late Governor Mario Cuomo, a stirring orator, told the once significant The New Republic in 1985, “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose” In a clear break from his predecessor Deval Patrick, Governor Charlie Baker may…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. If I were technologically proficient, I’d edge this blog in black. How profoundly sad is the grievous slaughter of 12 yesterday in Paris, journalists and their police protectors at the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. What…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When two-term Massachusetts Senator Ed Brooke woke at 3:30 in the morning on November 7, 1978 the election was already over. And just after 8 p.m. that evening, as the first votes trickled in, his long-time aide Roger Woodworth…
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