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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s on blog. You can visit it here. Each year, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial page editor Tom Waseleski prepares for the New Year an aspirational list of headlines.  For several years, I have shamelessly borrowed the idea and herewith present my own suggestions,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron;s own blog. It was originally posted on December 17. Today’s papers announced the latest entrant in the 2014 race for governor: a Tea Party challenger to Charlie Baker for the Republican nomination. Mark Fisher, a Shrewsbury resident and newbie at…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Elizabeth Warren insists she is not running for President, most recently this past Sunday on Channel 5′s On the Record program. This is a good thing.  There’s been too much  bandwagon buzz about a possible…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The marquee of the Citi Center for the Performing Arts, still known as the Wang, was lit up on Wednesday evening.  In bold colors and a dominating photo it read “Hubie80!”  For years now, Boston has known that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO James J. Murren was the house controlling the game in his speech Thursday to the Boston College CEO’s Club.  As with all CEO’s Club luncheons, the event invitation promised remarks plus opportunities…

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Presidents have their social secretaries to tell them when to applaud during a White House concert. The rest of us, President Obama says, are on our own. But some of today’s rigid rules need rethinking. Last Saturday night at the Boston Symphony,…

I’m really not into watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but this video is fun..especially since one of the performers is family a member.

Larry David’s Thanksgiving Special from Larry David

I found this interesting video of a parade in Dracut on YouTube. It was originally posted by MrHooper024

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Fifty years ago today, the woman was not yet a journalist.  She was barely 24, a Wellesley College graduate, living in a thoroughly domestic life in a garden apartment in Norwood, getting used to days and weeks totally…