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On this day after the Massachusetts Primary where women candidates did so well and are poised to make history, it is fitting to remember Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers. Mrs. Rogers made her own history with – among other things – her support for veterans and her record-holding longevity in the…
Read More »Tornado Warnings Yesterday afternoon’s tornado warning was the fourth of the summer. I don’t remember that many warnings in the previous 40 years. Is the weather getting worse or is weather radar and the ability to quickly report its results just getting better. While the tornado threat faded, a serious…
Read More »Last night in the Lowell Summer Music Series at Boarding House Park, Lyle Lovett and friends performed for the third time on the iconic pavilion stage, giving us a stunning and sterling display of musicianship and joie de vivre—a dose of happiness like others that are supplied over and over,…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Times have changed for Sixth district Congressman John Tierney, and things are looking good. This, though he faces a rerun of the 2012 challenge from Republican Richard Tisei and, in the September primary, four challengers within his own party. Tierney…
Read More »With the 40th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation approaching on August 9, I went to the vault to retrieve this “current events” poem written a long time ago. The complexity of the Watergate scandal unfolding month to month in 1973 and ’74 grabbed people’s attention like one of…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The whole smarmy business makes you want to take a shower, but the racketeering and conspiracy trial of former Probation Commissioner Jack O’Brien and two top aides was more than just your garden variety patronage. As the Globe’s Tom Farragher…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. When the cat’s away, the mice will play. In terms of congressional financing, the cat is public disclosure. Given the do-nothing Congress’ indifference to its abysmal public image, I probably shouldn’t be shocked that the House has just…
Read More »In today’s NYTimes, opinion-writer Frank Bruni profiles an unusual politician, the long-long-time mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, Joe Riley, who talks about what makes a city tick, civic psychology, diversity, nonpartisan public administration, problem-solving, justice, the arts and excellence, and more. Read the column here, and get the NYT if…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo NY Daily News I rarely agree with (Wisconsin GOP Congressman) Paul Ryan, but in this recent kerfuffle over “lost” IRS emails, he struck a responsive chord. Speaking to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen at a House…
Read More »As former Marty Meehan Legislative Director and current DC consultant Bill McCann noted on his Facebook page this morning ~ “You can criticize the President for many things, but this is as bad as talking during his back swing.” This was in reference to yet another media slam at President Obama’s “stress-relieving”…
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