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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I’ve never been a fan of Chuck Schumer. I find him frequently ineffectual and sometimes fatuous. But in the current intraparty squabble among Democrats about advancing this week’s Continuing Resolution, I regret to say he and nine other…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. January 20, 2025. The sun is shining, but it gives no warmth. The air is frigid, and we’re told that it’s going to be getting much colder. Irrespective of changing seasons, things might be consistently unpleasant for…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. I thought the Boston Red Sox were well past their sordid corporate history of bigotry and ugly fans’ and players’ misbehavior. New ownership since 2002 has largely been a breath of fresh air. Gone are the overt…
Read More »Québec, St. Jean Baptiste, and Poutine! A Free Slide Presentation and Talk by Marie-Josée Duquette of the Québec Government Office in Boston Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 6:30-8:30 pm Dracut Public Library Community Room 28 Arlington St., Dracut, MA How did the people of Québec come to celebrate the Nativity of…
Read More »The entry below isa being corss posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Global warming is no longer an abstract theory. Forget about the hockey-stick-shaped graph correlating the rapid rise in temperature with the fossil fuel-based increase in carbon emission in recent years. The data have real-life implications for every…
Read More »Over the past few years, many people have grown concerned about home title theft. The increased worry is driven mostly by extensive advertising by companies that provide services which, for a fee, monitor home ownership records. This weekend, in “Are title protection services worth the expense?”, the Boston Globe asks…
Read More »In my Substack newsletter a few weeks ago I suggested the city should conduct an after-action review of its policies for dealing with the Covid pandemic, mostly to learn lessons that might better prepare the city for the next public health crisis. I included an observation that I found it…
Read More »Readers of this site are familiar with Louise Peloquin as the author of the Boarding School Blues story that’s published in serialized installments every two weeks, but Louise is also our correspondent on all things French. So a few weeks ago when I started reading stories about turmoil on the…
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