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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Arrests were made overnight in Los Angeles and Oakland as crowds protesting the “not guilty” outcome in the Trayvon Martin murder case turned violent. Had the verdict gone the other way, others would have protested.  Even though, according…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I have crossed paths with Boston mayoral candidate Charlotte Golar Richie at various times over the last few decades, but without getting a real sense of her as an individual.  Certainly, I knew her from her bio: Peace Corps volunteer in…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newton Mayor Setti Warren is catching flak from some Garden City liberals for withholding  $1.4 million in city-controlled federal money for a ten-unit building in a former fire station in the Waban section of Newton. The so-called Engine 6 project…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. My family’s return from a glorious week in London shows how salutary it is for a political junkie to purge herself- albeit temporarily – of politics. So before I get sucked back into  the  nearly unspeakable frustration of focusing on…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Not much has changed with the Supreme Court ruling that the challenge to Texas’ affirmative action policy should go back to the lower court for “strict scrutiny” to be applied.  Strict scrutiny means that universities will have to…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was originally post on June Last night’s Senate debate between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez was a schoolyard scramble to see who could make the “old and stale” label stick. Gomez says it’s Markey who’s old and stale because…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There was a time when former Congressman Barney Frank said you couldn’t pay him enough for sitting on a panel with Karl Rove.  As it turns out, he mused, “you can.”  Frank is doing well on the speaking…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s on blog. The last time I reviewed a Huntington Theatre production,    it was M for miserable.  The current play is T for terrific.  Run, do not walk, to see Rapture, Blister, Burn, the Huntington Theatre production at the Calderwood Pavilion at the…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. It’s easy to think of ourselves as thoughtful deliberative voters with no single litmus issue for judging a candidate, but that theoretical criterion came up short last night in the final moments of the Senate debate…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Shootings, muggings, fires, crashes, sports and weather–  all the stuff of local television.  Then there are the Kirby Perkins A+ scholarship segments. Kirby was a Channel 5 reporter who especially  loved politics and sports. The station’s “High Five” series…