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Yesterday City Year founder Alan Khazei announced he will be a candidate for United States Senate in 2012. Khazei wasted no time getting his website up and running. The links to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr are sure indicators that the campaign intends to enlist young supporters in its attempt…
Read More »Alan Khazei has told us today on Twitter, Facebook and through the mainstream media that he is officially “in” the race for the Massachusetts United States Senate seat currently held by Scott Brown. While many others have declined to run including former Congressman Joe Kennedy, former Congressman Marty Meehan, Governor Deval Patrick,…
Read More »Charles Blow in today’s NYTimes and Fareed Zakaria on cnn.com both weigh in with truth squad reports on the antics of The Donald, who should be de-horsed in the GOP presidential stakes by that political party itself. The serious grown-ups on the Repub side should stand together and denounce once and…
Read More »All over the Merrimack Valley the towns are gearing up for Town Meeting. The town budget is probably the hottest issue issue faced by voters. But other issues also need consideration. The Eagle-Tribune’s Jonathan Phelps writes this morning about an overlay plan for the River Road/Route 93 district that could appease the complains of both…
Read More »What kind of nation are we living in when 47 percent of a sample of admitted Republicans respond to a NYTimes/CBS poll question by saying they don’t believe President Obama was born in the US? Opinion columnist Timothy Egan of the NYTimes lays out the dangers of demagogues like Donald…
Read More »The Globe has a story by Mark Arsenault speculating that the First Congressional District, which covers close to one-third of the entire geographic area of the Commonwealth and stretches from the New York border to nearby Pepperell and Townsend is the most likely candidate for dismemberment in this year’s Congressional…
Read More »MassMoments reminds us this morning that on this day – April 16, 1952 – Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill “threw his hat in the ring” announcing that he would run for Congress for the seat vacated by John F. Kennedy. A skilled politician and veteran of the Massachusetts Legislature, “Tip” served…
Read More »The next regular breakfast meeting of Greater Lowell Area Democrats will be held this coming Saturday April 16, 20011 at 8am at the Independence Grill at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford. The regular agenda will include: ongoing topics such as the status of the 5th District and legislative redistricting plans and the Joint Redistricting Committee hearing…
Read More »MassMoments remind us that on this day – April 14, 1642 – the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World requiring that children be taught to read and write. It was an incredible step for education. While not a universal mandate at the time, it did…
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