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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Last night’s historic moment almost seemed anti-climactic. I had shed my tears at the historic milestone when Hillary Clinton had clinched the Democratic nomination. I held my breath for weeks thereafter until Bernie Sanders had endorsed her, making it…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Will Hillary Clinton get the post-convention bump she needs to reassure even her anxious supporters and would-be donors that she can win in November? Tonight will determine that. Days one through three have set the table, but they won’t necessarily matter…
Read More »In response to a friend’s Facebook posting about a photo of candidate Trump’s family of great white hunters with their big-game safari trophies, I added a few thoughts (expanded here) about what this Trump thing means, if we even know what it means.—PM Where are we headed? Or have we…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. Bernie Sanders has been saying for eight months that the Democratic National Committee rigged the primary system. He also has long said that, in the interest of fair play, DNC Chair Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz should…
Read More »As our July weather heats up later this week and as we await the start of Democratic and GOP conventions, look for a heat-up on the Merrimack Valley campaign front. The presumptive Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton has a big event planned for Portsmouth NH on Tuesday. Expect many…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. As one analyst put it, Hillary was not indicted but she was convicted in the court of public opinion. Of extreme carelessness in handling emails. Of setting up a private, nonsecure server in her home and using it…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Bill Clinton makes me want to tear my hair out. He often makes me want to take a shower. Hillary can’t fire him, but can someone put him under adult supervision? For many, the choice in 2008 between…
Read More »For the Fourth of July, Independence Day, here’s a poem from the nation’s capital. I wrote this prose poem after a family trip to Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2004. There were John Kerry-for-President signs in the windows. GOP posters for “W,” too. Barack Obama was a figure on…
Read More »It’s no secret that I’m a longtime admirer and supporter of Marty Meehan. From Lowell High School days when Marty was sitting in my English class and dashing about as a student leader to later years when after being on opposing sides in a Democratic congressional primary we became work…
Read More »This is the third in a series of columns by John Edward, who teaches economics at Bentley and UMass Lowell, on economic issues related to the upcoming presidential election. The first column, “The 100 Percent,” appeared on May 16, 2016; the second, “Voodoo Two,” on May 23, 2016. In 1987,…
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