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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…

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…