Count on the U.S. Census Bureau to provide numbers suitable for just about anyone’s political purpose.
Take this week’s report on family finances.
There was good news for the Bush White House in the finding that the nation’s poverty rate had declined from 12.6 percent in 2005 to 12.3 percent last year. Also encouraging was the fact [...]
Archive for August, 2007
It appears Salem (MA) Mayor Kim Driscoll has another tiger by the tail in the effort to include Salem Common as one of the venues for Haunted Happenings events this October.
When she first approached neighbors about allowing Fiesta Shows to put children’s rides within the historic park’s boundaries, she made it clear she was not [...]
Count me among those unimpressed with the recent decision by Lawrence officials to print the fiscal 2008 municipal budget in both English and Spanish.
Why? Take it from a former president whose profile is atop Mount Rushmore along with those of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln:
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who [...]
State Treasurer Tim Cahill is expected to endorse Niki Tsongas’ candidacy for Congress at a press conference in Lowell today.
Cahill’s nod adds to the air of inevitability the brains behind the Tsongas campaign have sought to give her bid almost since the day she entered the race for Marty Meehan’s seat. And the strategy appears [...]
One of the best reads of the summer is “Cape Wind” by magazine reporter Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb, editorial page editor of the Providence Journal.
Subtitled, “Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound,” it’s a fascinating tale about the bruising fight waged over energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon’s to [...]
Bill Mugford of Middleton called this morning to offer his thoughts on the recent Eagle-Tribune series on public pensions. He’s viewed the situation from both sides — as a member of the town’s board of selectmen and an employee of its highway department.
He commended the papers for exposing the greed and exploitation that beset the [...]
Meanwhile, over in the GOP race
Posted in 5th District race, Nelson Benton on Aug 8th, 2007 Comments
The Democratic candidates in the race for Marty Meehan’s seat in Congress have shared the stage so often, any one of them could probably recite another’s stock lines.
That’s not the case over on the Republican side where Tom Tierney has appeared a half-dozen times with the Democrats but, according to him, has yet to meet [...]
Gambling is increasingly being viewed as the answer to all the Bay State’s problems.
Cities and towns are addicted to the revenue raised by the Massachusetts Lottery, and now casino gambling is being viewed as a means of funding everything from biotech research to an extension of commuter rail to the South Coast.
So why not use [...]
You might be surprised at what’s uppermost on North Shore teenagers’ minds when they get to interrogate their local congressman.
According to John Tierney, D-Salem, it’s not the presidential election or even the war in Iraq. It’s the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
I’ve seen a couple of lawn signs calling attention [...]
Legend has it that columnist Walter Winchell once advised his readers that if they wanted to learn the art of politics they should visit Peabody, Mass.
I’ve never been able to find the exact quote, but the truth is that politics has long ranked behind only football as the North of Boston community’s favorite sport. But [...]
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