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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Red Sox move on to the ALCS, Gronkowski may play for the Patriots on Sunday, a Newton-based foundation is poised to save Boston’s First Night Festival, the school buses are rolling in Boston after an illegal one-day…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts Republican Party grande dame Polly Logan, 88, died on September 30, a day when the national GOP showed again how it has become the antithesis of what she stood for. Polly, who lived on the South Shore,…

  The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Political junkie alert! You can get a fix in Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston’s portrayal of Lyndon Johnson at the American Repertory Theater. (We were lucky to be taken, along with two other couples, by dear friends celebrating…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Baron’s own blog. Please pass the salt and pepper.  I’m about to eat some crow.  Last July, I wrote how nervous I was when the Red Sox were in first place at the All Star break.  Looking back over 20 years’…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Boston’s mayoral election is still up for grabs, but the selections may be crystalizing. Four days with no computer has left me grappling impressionistically with the 12-person field, but things are looking slightly more clear.  Thanks to Davcoh…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Like so many, I have been struggling with the Syrian dilemma of strike/no strike, reflected in my previous blog .  Congressman John Tierney, speaking to the New England Council yesterday morning, spoke of his own struggle to “do the right…

.Then entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog Both writer George Santayana and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill have reminded us how those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.  But, when it comes to chemical warfare in Syria, which history shall we remember and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Brron’s own blog. Don’t tell me the end of summer isn’t until the third week in September.  Virtually everyone understands summer ends on Labor Day (or the Friday before for those who want to beat the rush.)  The leaves are beginning…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. The good news is that there are more than a few candidates running for mayor of Boston who are at least as credible as  Hizzonah Mayor Menino 20 years ago.  The bad news is that sorting them out…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. At first I thought a verdict in the trial of Boston gangster Whitey Bulger would spur profound withdrawal symptoms. I’d be missing the daily, nay, hourly updates on the grizzly testimony given about the murderous career of the…