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The news that Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola died suddenly today was stunning and saddening. I’ll leave it to others to report on the circumstances of his passing but perhaps a short summary of his political career might be appropriate. Motivated by last week’s news of DiPaola’s retirement, I wrote…
Read More »Economist, teacher, and blogger Robert Reich analyzes the political strategy of Sarah Palin in his latest opinion piece. Between the lines, Reich is telling the Democratic Party leaders and members to do more about the economic suffering in the country. Read it here, as aggregated by huffingtonpost.com
Read More »I just watched a wonderful documentary on PBS about the offical photographer of President Obama, Pete Souza, whose work was captured by a National Geographic Society team for about a year, culminating in the passage of the health care reform bill last spring. The program offers a look inside the…
Read More »NYTimes columist Bob Herbert today recalls the expansive and in its own way demanding vision of JFK, calling it his “gift” to the nation. Read the column here, and get the NYT if you appreciate the thinking.
Read More »WickedLocal.com is reporting that Treasurer-elect Steven Grossman has chosen Representative Barbarba L’Italien of Andover as his Director of Goverment Affairs along with Francis Orlando as her Deputy Director and Al Gordon as Director of Policy. “I am pleased to have people of this caliber on our team,” Grossman said. “They…
Read More »The stunning news from the Boston Globe that Middlesex County Sheriff Jim DiPaola will leave office in January after just being re-elected without opposition to a six-year term has far reaching political repercussions for Greater Lowell. Marie’s post on the DiPaola story from earlier today has received a number of…
Read More »The Globe is reporting that James DiPaola – recently re-elected Middlesex Sheriff – has “retired” and will resign from his position as Sheriff in January, 2011 allowing Governor Patrick to appoint a replacement. Originally, planning to take advantage of complicated but legal pension provisions, DiPaola was retiring but was planning…
Read More »So what’s really motivating the G.O.P. attack on the Fed? Mr. Bernanke and his colleagues were clearly caught by surprise, but the budget expert Stan Collender predicted it all. Back in August, he warned Mr. Bernanke that “with Republican policy makers seeing economic hardship as the path to election glory,”…
Read More »GOP members of the U. S. Senate Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine From the HuffingtonPost this afternoon: WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end…
Read More »We knew it was coming. Over on HuffingtonPost there’s a report that the “the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election” – to wit – to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was on tap today. The thing is according to HuffPo – “it was over before it…
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