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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley, a pivotal moment in the history of student activism and political organizing that laid the groundwork for the antiwar movement and other social causes. …
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Governor-elect Charlie Baker is off to a good start. He was gracious to losing candidate Martha Coakley on election night and the day after. He struck the right tone with Deval Patrick in discussing the transition. Pushed to…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Tip O’Neill famously said all politics is local. Yesterday, Republicans won big by turning that adage on its head. They nationalized state races and turned President Obama’s unpopularity and his administration’s failures into anvils around the necks of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. New York City likes to see itself as informed and sophisticated, but the city’s response to its first case of ebola was anything but. The headlines screamed “Ebola in NYC.” News stories on television and on the electrified sides…
Read More »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…
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