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There’s a lot of good commentary out there on the web today. Here’s an opinion piece that’s worth a read. Timothy Egan of the NYTimes says the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats “saved capitalism” in 2009-10, but got no thanks for it from the private sector that benefited from the…
Read More »Niki Tsongas was a big winner. As a newly elected member of Congress (elected in 2007 special election) she fit the profile of those Democratic Congressmen who lost yesterday across the rest of the country. Deval Patrick was a big winner. Being an incumbent running for reelection in tough economic…
Read More »Niki Tsongas won an overwhelming victory today, defeating Republican challenger Jon Golnik, 112,845 to 87,397, a 13 point margin of victory (55% to 42%). But Tsongas was not alone: all of her Massachusetts House colleagues were easily reelected and Bill Keating won the vacant southeastern Massachusetts seat by a healthy…
Read More »Read columnist Eugene Robinson’s opinion piece in today’s Washington Post. He wonders what’s really got the anti-Democrat, anti-federal government crowd so worked up, and concludes that it is because President Obama is “different.”
Read More »Outgoing Democratic Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana writes in the NYTimes that Democrats at the national level must be more aggressive about rebuilding the economy and controlling the federal budget in order to address the main concerns of the public and regain political momentum. Read his opinion here, and get…
Read More »These thoughts were written by Marjorie Arons-Barron yesterday, the day before polls opened, and are being cross posted from Marjorie’s own blog. I’m not given to quoting Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s blog, but, as we embark with certain misgivings on the last 17- hour countdown till the polls open, I note…
Read More »Governor Deval Patrick made a quick stop in Lowell today, stopping at the Appleton Mills project to shake hands with the many members of the building trades who are working there. Surrounded by hardhats in the midst of the construction site, the Governor pointed to a story in today’s Globe…
Read More »John Edward, a resident of Chelmsford who earned his master’s degree at UMass Lowell and is an adjunct professor of economics at Bentley University, has previously contributed columns urging readers to vote NO on Question 1, Question 2 and Question 3. Today he preemptively discusses who stands to win and…
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 pm, Lowell National Hist. Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. “The Girl in the Italian Bakery” features Lawrence native Kenneth Tingle, author of a hard-knocks memoir about growing up in our neighbor mill city. It’s a story about not losing hope. Check out the book here.…
Read More »A new Suffolk University poll released late last night shows Deval Patrick with the same size lead over Charlie Baker has been seen in other recent polls. According to Suffolk, among likely voters, Patrick has 46% to Baker’s 39% and Cahill’s 9%. The leader of Suffolk’s polling operation, David Paleologos,…
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