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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Today’s Globe story that a deal is near for developer John Rosenthal’s Fenway Center is good news for all concerned.  The idea that this project would have a 99-year lease on air rights over the Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The House has passed a budget.  The Senate has passed a budget.  But we’re not likely to get a budget, Congressman Michael Capuano told Monday’s New England Council breakfast meeting, because Congress is still kicking the can down…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. A civic or social welfare organization is not allowed to support political candidates of any stripe. Partisan activities are a no-no if a non-profit wants to preserve its federal tax exemption. But the law has…

Nothing like a video bike tour…this video was originally posted by Ratbas on YouTUbe. It is long, but if you skip around you’ll see some interesting views of the city.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron own blog. It wasn’t enough to decimate the core of what was Al Qaeda in 2001.  The landscape in certain hospitable countries like Yemen and Syria is now dotted with Al Qaeda offshoots and affiliates.  And, for the last eight years,…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Our credibility in one place affects our credibility in another,” Secretary of State John Kerry told about 20 members of the Association of Opinion Journalists in a briefing Monday at the State Department. Syria’s use of sarin gas…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. In the early days following the Marathon bombings, the media made plenty of mistakes as reporters rushed to tell the story.  Reports surfaced that the two suspects were under arrest when they were not.  The…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It’s hard not to be shaken to the core by the horrific attacks at today’s marathon. The deaths, the mutilation, scores of injuries, and fear.  The assault on what can only be described as an iconic (yes, I…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. We left the Calderwood Pavillion in the South End tonight thinking that Ryan Landry’s “M” could be by far the worse play we’ve ever seen, at the Huntington or anywhere else. My husband and I, who  love theater and…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Newark’s charismatic mayor, Cory Booker, took the stage Sunday at Salem State University’s Speaker Series.  A man on the move politically (he’s planning a run for retiring Frank Lautenberg’s U.S. Senate seat in 2014), he’s on the move…