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The following post is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. This fall, after 27 months of bitter negotiations, the Boston Teachers Union accepted a contract providing new forms of teacher evaluation and remediation for under-performing teachers. At the same time, they turned thumbs down on extending the school…

This morning major news outlets are reporting that Mitt Romney told a group of his supporters that he lost the election because President Obama give “gifts” to certain groups. In a conference call Wednesday afternoon with his national finance committee, Mr. Romney said that the president had followed the “old…

This video shows some interesting memorabilia from the Harvard Brewery in Lowell. captainbirch originally posted this video.

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. You can find it here. Congress returns to work tomorrow, and there are a few reasons to be hopeful that the two parties may be able to negotiate a solution to the fiscal crisis, the so-called fiscal cliff that…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Just as the Boston Herald was unable to sway voters with  obsessively demeaning Elizabeth Warren as an affirmative action princess “Fauxcohontas,”  so too did the Boston Globe fail to run John Tierney out of office, using barrels and barrels…

The entry below is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts finally did it!  It elected a woman to the U.S. Senate.  And what a woman she is!  After a miserable campaign start, in which she turned off even her supporters by appearing too prim, preachy, professorial and sometimes suffocatingly earnest,…

The following entry is being cross-posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. It was originally post on November 7, the day after the election. Last night’s outcome was clearcut and gratifying, but the future is as complicated as ever. President Obama performed beyond many expectations in the electoral votes, garnering nearly 100…

Presidential voting started last night in Dixville Notch, NH. The video below shows the first voting tie ever for this small community (five votes for Obama and five for Romney). I wonder if this is a harbinger of a long, long night to come. This video was originally posted by…

Democratic US Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren at Ramalho’s West End Gym Lowell Ma., home of “The Fighter”. This video was originally posted by JBoutselis1

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I agree with this four-year-old child in Colorado, driven to tears by the election. Politico made public that National Public Radio apologized to this adorable child whose pain I share. I find I’m repeating to myself the NPR…