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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…

The entry below is cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Federal Reserve may not be the center of the solar system, but it is a key inflection point in American politics and, through its interest rate policies, can have a profound impact on the nation’s economy. The Fed…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I don’t know John Henry.  We’ve been introduced at fundraising events a couple of times; there was no extended conversation.  He seems very nice, if shy.  I have no reason to think he’ll ruin the Boston Globe, which he…

Thank you to Marjorie Arons-Baron for allowing us to cross-post this entry from her own blog. Tom Wolfe’s 1987 masterpiece Bonfire of the Vanities  captured the greed, class, ambition, and politics of Reagan era New York City. So, too, does Mark Leibovich’s This Town capture early  21st century Washington, D.C. …

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog…check it out. Yesterday may have been National Hot Dog Day, but Anthony Weiner has nothing to celebrate.  Anthony Weiner is a …..Good taste prevents me from playing with the punning headlines of the New York Post and Daily…

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…