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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Massachusetts voters who care about climate change will want to return Ed Markey to the U.S. Senate.  He has worked on the issue for decades, well before many  of the rest of us were taking seriously the impact…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The Massachusetts Governor was halfway through his second term. While things were going reasonably well, he was still dogged by dramatic shortcomings in the Department of Children and Families, fraud at the state drug lab, and incompetence with…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Since becoming president Donald Trump has given members of Congress ample reasons to deem him unfit for office. Time and again his behavior has clearly met the Constitutional standard of high crimes and misdemeanors worthy of an impeachment…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo Jonathan Brady Photos and videos of about four million people around the world rallying last week to urge action on climate change were inspiring.  Thankfully, global warming is no longer a marginal issue. From a quarter of…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog.   photo SafeNebraska Remember the old days when  the term “designated driver” evoked A.J. Foyt or Mario Andretti? By the 1980’s, however, we learned that “designated driver” meant the guy (or gal) at the party who wouldn’t drink…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. No one has a right to hold onto an office in perpetuity, but having served a long time shouldn’t necessarily be a disqualifier. Senator Ed Markey has been in public office nearly half a century.  The one-term+…

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barrons own blog. photo Getty In a speech prepared for him to read from the Oval Office, President Trump has condemned the shootings in Dayton and El Paso, calling for unity in opposing hatred, white supremacists, violence, especially on the…

The Democratic candidates need to argue over the best way to improve health care coverage and settle on a party position before Iowa. Let them have a health care insurance summit in September to sort this out. Come to an agreement and stick by it. Make it clear to the…

This post is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So now, in time for the July 4th celebration of our democracy, the Supreme Court has ruled that elected officials shall pick their voters rather than the other way around.  It’s probably a worse decision that Bush v. Gore…