As part of her exploratory moves towards announcing a Senate bid, Elizabeth Warren has been avoiding the press. Her statewide listening tour among potential supporters has been reported only by […]
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The Texas jobs governor?
Numbers are tricky monsters, especially in politics, where the only truth is that everything is up for debate. So it is that Texas Gov. Rick Perry can run for president […]
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They have their exits and their entrances
T-Paw is gone and Rick Perry is the man. Oh yeah, and the lady from Minnesota is popular with party die-hards in Iowa, but don’t take her too seriously. The […]
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Warren teases some more
Elizabeth Warren whipped the Massachusetts political world into a frenzy yesterday with a post on Blue Mass Group. She didn’t announce her candidacy for the US Senate, but her “Coming […]
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Mitt is not the lone star
Mitt Romney wasn’t on vacation yesterday, and he wasn’t shaking secretive rich folks for huge piles of cash. Instead, he was sweating it out in New Hampshire, a full month […]
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Wallace indicted, questions remain
The indictment of former South Boston state representative Brian Wallace on campaign finance charges leaves a lot of questions unanswered. News outlets across the state carried the basics. The 61-year-old […]
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Senate race no laugher
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Scott Brown and Martha Coakley squaring off for the Senate seat once held by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. Last year’s […]
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In New York City schools, civil rights or wrongs?
The school reform wars have taken a dramatic turn in New York City, where 2,500 parents and students – overwhelming black and Hispanic – rallied last week to protest the […]
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Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter
He went by Chris Gerhart, Christopher Chichester, Christopher Crowe, CCC Mountbatten, and ultimately Clark Rockefeller, but his real name was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, one of the strangest and most successful […]
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Lantigua’s brazen fundraisin’
Last year, Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua spent more money on printer toner ($1,545) than he spent on political catering ($1,525). In fact, according to reports on file with the state […]
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Frank credit
In his column yesterday, the Herald’s Howie Carr skewered US Rep. Barney Frank for recommending his then-partner Herb Moses for a job 20 years ago at Fannie Mae, a housing […]
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The Download: The GOP’s alienation program
Instead of coming to grips with the changing face of America, the Republican Party appears to be dead set on alienating every minority group in the country. Mother Jones writer […]
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The Download: Pawlenty fever? Try golf clap
On the same day Tim Pawlenty made his presidential candidacy official, Mitch Daniels said he was out of the race. Daniels was polling right next to Pawlenty – low-single digits […]
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The Download: The write stuff
Despite a national publicity tour and appearances on all the major television shows, Gov. Deval Patrick’s memoir “A Reason to Believe” is selling like cold hotcakes, according to Nielsen Bookscan, […]
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The Download: Southern comfort
The most popular governor in the North is from the South. There was lots of carping in 2009 when Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor only got a measly $112 million in high-speed […]
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The Download: Governor’s Council on thin ice
When the needle moves on Beacon Hill, it tends to move quickly. Last Tuesday, one member of the Governor’s Council was warning his colleagues that if they didn’t stop attracting […]
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The Download: Grave dancing
“We don’t need to spike the football,” President Obama said in his decision to not release photographs of Osama bin Laden’s dead body. “That’s not who we are.” But who […]
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The Download: Eternal vigilance in Boston and beyond
The death of Osama bin Laden changed little for Boston’s Logan International Airport, the launch point for the September 11 attacks almost ten years ago. Gov. Deval Patrick advised “an […]
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The Download: Now to the political calculus
It’s now the second day of Osama bin Laden stories, which means the narrative has turned to stories detailing how the daring weekend raid came together, and to stories speculating […]
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The Download: How does New Hampshire do it?
For years, New Hampshire has been like an oasis in the desert to antitax forces. The “Live Free or Die” state has no income or sales taxes, and yet it […]
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The Download: Days of yore
As much of America is fixated on a wedding in the royal family — except, believe it or not, viewers of Fox 25 — that harkens back to the time […]
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The Download: Glum Sal
Jury selection begins today in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Sal DiMasi, and the former king of Beacon Hill is already looking and talking like a beaten man. […]
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The Download: Talking the talk
It’s never too early to speculate. Has conservatism run its course? Is the middle the new “silent majority?” Will the left start gaining some traction? And who will take over […]
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The Download: Sen. Warren? (Elizabeth, that is)
Up until now, the nascent movement to draft Elizabeth Warren to challenge Sen. Scott Brown has had one glaring deficiency – a willing participant. After all, why would Warren willingly […]
