Paul Krugman has just posted a quick note on his New York Time “The Conscience of a Liberal” blog site about Elizabeth Warren’s decision to explore the waters of a US Senate race in Massachusetts: Finally, Someone to Run Against Wall Street One of the truly amazing things about American…
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City Councilor Patrick Murphy, who used YouTube about as effectively as anyone I’ve seen in local politics in the last election, is out with a new video: [youtube]o4o93k-Vdr8[/youtube]
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Chris Cillizza columnist for the Washington Post and commentator for MSNBC just sent out his “Afternoon Fix” update on politics and Washington suggesting hot items, issues and incidents to watch for… Today he’s targeting among other things the possible match-up of Congressman Stephen Lynch and frosh Congressman Bill Keating as…
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Check out this rant by Allan Sloan of Fortune from cnn.com I spent July on family leave, not writing columns, and watching with increasing horror as market-illiterate know-nothings, abetted by the craven leaders of the Republican Party (from which I’m about to resign) and the unspeakable ineptness of Obama and…
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One of our occasional contributors who tracks money, politics, sports, pop culture, Lowelliana, and his own dreamlife (a la Jean-Louis K.) is on special assignment for rh.com while the First Family tries to get a moment of tranquility on “the Island.” Our man on the scene Ray LaPorte from Pawtucketville Nation will file regular posts…
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Politics Editor Glen Johnson had posted on his Boston Globe “Political Intelligence” site that Elizabeth Warren has filed the necessary paperwork to form an exploratory campaign committee for the US Senate. This is a necessary legal step needed to “test the waters” for a run allowing a would-be candidate to…
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My wife and I did the be-a-tourist-in-your-own-state thing again yesterday as part of our “stay-cation” approach this summer. We started and ended our day in Andover, but spent most of the bright blue-sky day in Boston, which looked very good in the parts we visited. Boston King Coffee on Main Street…
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Room installation Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room James McNeill Whistler, 1834–1903 Oil paint and gold leaf on canvas, leather, and wood Gift of Charles Lang Freer A note in today’s Lowell Sun tells us that the famed and now restored “Peacock Room” in the Freer Gallery of…
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Forbes magazine and website published its latest list of highest-earning authors, topped by James Patterson at $84 million for the past 12 months. I picked up this bulletin from bbc.com. See the top ten here. New Englander Stephen King made third place with $28 million. Note to self: Poets not found on…
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