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…
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…
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…
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…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Check it out too. The Y chromosome was in short supply among top winners in yesterday’s primary. The result is that party candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, state treasurer, attorney general and, in my home county, district attorney…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Democratic gubernatorial debates ended last night. Three decent, intelligent individuals with strong commitment to Massachusetts and public service. Notwithstanding Attorney General Martha Coakley’s double-digit advantage in the polls, it is Treasurer Steve Grossman who has emerged as the…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be happy that the Market Basket board approved Arthur T. Demoulas’ buyout of the supermarket company. Not that I shop there; there isn’t one near me. But my sister does, and praises its bargains.…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Democratic gubernatorial candidate state treasurer Steve Grossman has narrowed the gap between Attorney General Martha Coakley and him, but it’s unclear if he can make up a remaining 12-point deficit in the last two weeks before the state primary. Right…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The dueling Demoulas brothers remind me of nothing so much as the hot new Fox dramatic series called Tyrant. Bassam “Barry” Al-Fayeed, the son of a corrupt and murderous Middle Eastern dictator/president (pick your model), has fled to the…
The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barrons own blog. Islamic extremists yesterday posted a video purporting to show the beheading of GlobalPost.com photojournalist James Foley, a New Hampshire native in Syria nearly two years ago. U.S. intelligence is still not confirming the grizzly death as of 7 a.m. this…