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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Check it out. Scott Brown told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce this morning that he’s “tired of the fluff.” He says that, in nine months in Washington, the Senate has only focused for 12 days on jobs…
Read More »According to an article in today’s Eagle-Tribune, the Lawrence police union effort to block the City of Lawrence from moving police union employees to the state insurance plan was stymied when Judge Nancy Holtz refused to issue an injunction. The city was ordered to join the state insurence part as…
Read More »Over at HuffingtonPost this morning – Sam Stein tells us the Independent U. S. Senator from Vermont – Bernie Sanders – is calling for a meeting with Progressives to discuss the recent recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission. Unhappy with the preliminary report and recommendations of the co-chairs – Sanders…
Read More »The Washington Post owners and editors should be ashamed of themselves for publishng on the home page of the paper’s website an opinion piece by pollsters Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Shoen calling for President Obama to immediately announce that he will not seek re-election. Why should this president…
Read More »Young Democrats of Massachusetts The newly formed Merrimack Valley Chapter of Young Democrats will be hosting a meeting on Friday November 19, 2010 at 6:30pm at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center in downtown Lowell. The meeting agenda includes membership registration, voting of officers, ratification of charter and informational topics. To…
Read More »This is interesting. . . and rings familiar, but not exactly, of course. Historians often refer to the period from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century as “the Gilded Age,” a term credited to Mark Twain and Charles D. Warner for a book…
Read More »In his latest commentary, E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post group tries to buck up the Democrats who got whacked around on November 2. He points out that the GOP fiercely attacked and stubbornly opposed President Obama for most of the past two years, and came back with a…
Read More »Columnist David Brooks in today’s NYTimes lays out his vision of how to get the nation back in gear. I won’t link to the column, but I will link to the Readers’ Comments, which are the better part of the discussion. Read the readers here, and get the NYT if…
Read More »Cut from American Cloth (4) Congresswoman (“Mrs. Rogers”) Rogers was in the middle of a line of Republican U.S. Representatives from the Lowell area who controlled the seat from 1859 to 1974, with the exception of a single two-year term for Democrat John K. Tarbox (1875 – 1877). It took…
Read More »The nationally recognized website Politico carries a story today with this headline: “Midterm elections offer grim omen for Scott Brown’s future.” The story quotes UMass Lowell Chancellor Marty Meehan (“Obviously, the results show that Massachusetts is, at its core, a Democratic state – It has been a reliable Democratic state…
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