Read the boston.com article here and see US Rep. Niki Tsongas’s comments.
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One is a high-ranking member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee while the other claims a similar status on the equally important Ways and Means Committee. Representative John Olver of Amherst and Representative Richie Neal of Springfield have made it clear – they are running for reelection come 2012. These…
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I haven’t dragged economist-columnist Paul Krugman over here for a while because he’s been so ticked-off about everything in Washington, DC, but his NYTimes column today deserves a mention. He blows the whistle on Republican members of a commission charged with investigating what caused “the current financial and economic crisis in the…
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Matt Bai of the NYTimes analyzes the compromise tax bill that is headed to the President’s desk today. Read the opinion piece here, and get the NYT if you want more. Such compromises, ideal or not, are the building blocks of responsible governance. If that makes Mr. Obama some kind of…
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In Tuesday’s New York Times, Matt Bai wrote about the possibility that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg may run for president in 2012 as an independent. Bloomberg recently spoke at the launch of a new group called “No Labels” which “aspires to build a grass-roots movement for political independents…
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In today’s Globe: The Globe has compiled a list of all of the earmark requests from the Massachusetts congressional delegation that are part of the $1.2 trillion omnibus spending bill now headed for a Senate vote. Included are requests from US Senators John Kerry and Scott Brown, and US Reps.…
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Returning from Boston by train yesterday afternoon, I was seated behind a sixty-something Patriots-sweatshirt wearing white male who was not shy about sharing his opinions on politics with the fellow sitting next to him. Unfortunately for everyone else on that part of the train, his volume required us all to…
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To call The Climate War “a riveting tale,” as the cover quotes Bill Clinton as saying, would be an understatement. There have been many books written about current events in the past few years that deserve a large amount of praise, but Eric Pooley’s is the first to talk about…
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Come January, 2011 with a reorganization of the Massachusetts Film Office – Executive Director Nick Paleologos will be out of a job. In the new year, the state’s film office will be administered through the state Office of Travel and Tourism. As noted in the Globe earlier this month – the office of Housing…
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Lowell Gallery owner and all around good guy Guy Lefebvre sent me this nugget from an old Lowell newspaper. Some of the party platform planks have flopped and flipped through the years, but the rhetoric remains modern. This is from 1834, when Lowell was still a town, two years before…
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