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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tonight’s televised benign if mildly tense debate between Charlie Baker and Martha Coakley was clearly a draw, which may have been the defensive objective of all concerned. Comfortably moderated by WGBH talk show hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forget the Pilgrim, the Minuteman and the Indian (Squanto?). The real symbol of Massachusetts is the pothole. The state has done a dreadful job of keeping up our infrastructure. There are particularly bad places where hubcaps pile up…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today Boston Herald Editorial Page Editor Shelley Cohen has a heartfelt and candid apology for the racist cartoon it published showing President Obama in his bathroom squeezing toothpaste onto his toothbrush while a White House intruder looks on from…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Two trumpets, a horn, a euphonium and a tuba, a brass quintet performing the music for Saturday’s memorial for the late Boston Globe food writer and editor Gail Perrin. The music was loud, bold, brassy and confident: how…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. WBZ performed its civic duty by including three independent candidates for governor in Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate, but the three added little to the process. It’s one thing to give everyone equal access in the early stages of the campaign,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Apparently, the number of Massachusetts voters willing to accept casinos has grown from 37 percent to 53 percent, that according to a Boston Herald poll. I had even begun to think that, well, if Springfield needs jobs and…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Forget the gaffes, and get to the issues. Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker reportedly referred to Fox TV reporter Sharman Sachetti as “sweetheart,” and she and other women have taken umbrage. Massachusetts’ National Organization for Women (NOW) has…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The best baseball book of 2002 was Boston Herald reporter Howard Bryant’s Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston. Even growing up with the Red Sox, until reading the book years ago at the insistence…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’m with Karl Rove, at least on this: Condoleezza Rice should replace Roger Goodell as head of the National Football League. Goodell has been a toady for the owners, who get fat profits from leaving the game just…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The domino theory, used by the United States to justify military intervention in Vietnam, has always been fallible. In Southeast Asia, neighboring Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. Thailand is a parliamentary (if unstable) democracy. The Indonesian archipelago is a republic. But…
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