Count Lowell Congresswoman Niki Tsongas out of the race for Kennedy’s seat.
Her office just issued a release (about 1 p.m.) stating that a report in Sunday’s Lowell Sun that she was giving the idea serious thought was incorrect.
“I feel privileged to serve in the U.S. Congress and my efforts are entirely focused on effectively representing [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Democrats are still waiting to see whether one or more of the Kennedys want it, but on the Republican side the name of former lieutenant governor Kerry Healey of Beverly has been prominently mentioned as a candidate for Ted Kennedy’s seat.
She’s kept things relatively low-key since losing to Deval Patrick in 2006 (And how many [...]
While much is no doubt happening behind the scenes, don’t look for any public expression of interest in Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat until after his burial in Arlington National Cemetery this weekend.
Meanwhile momentum seems to be growing for emergency legislation that would allow Gov. Patrick to appoint someone to fill the seat temporarily. The senator’s [...]
I was 11 years old and living in the Philippines when news of President John F. Kennedy’s death arrived on our doorstep in Cebu via the morning edition of the Manila Times.
This morning, news of the last surviving Kennedy brother’s death came via the radio. Steve Lavelle’s show had been preempted by the start of [...]
Departing from politics to submit my choice for the best set at Woodstock.
Haven’t heard or seen much mention of it in recent retrospectives on the music festival that took place in upstate New York 40 years ago this summer, but how can anything top Alvin Lee and Ten Years After’s rendition of “I’m Going Home”? [...]
The Democrats seem to be feeling the heat these days.
Reporters were invited to participate in a telephonic press conference this morning hosted by Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and John Walsh, chairman of the state Democratic Party. The clearly partisan event was meant to rebut charges that the federal stimulus program isn’t working as advertised.
There was [...]
Though you wouldn’t know it by the amount of time the Boston TV stations are devoting to it, Hurricane Bill turned out to be a non-event.
But the forecasts of impending doom caused Gov. Patrick’s office to announce a noontime phone conference “on storm preparations” Friday.
The governor might have figured that a Dukakis-style appearance showing calm [...]
Not to be unkind, but our state’s senior senator would have more credibility in advocating that governors be allowed to fill vacancies in U.S. Senate seats if he’d opposed the change made several years ago.
But in 2004 Sen. Kennedy was as anxious as any other Democrat to see that Mitt Romney not be allowed to [...]
After playing the role of keynote speaker at the protest in front of Congressman Tierney’s office in Peabody last week, Republican challenger Bill Hudak is on a roll.
The Boxford attorney issued the following release this morning:
A Public Town Hall Meeting on Health Care for the Sixth Congressional District will be held at the Sheraton Ferncroft [...]
People on both sides of the health-care divide have said they think Congressman John Tierney should take questions and comments on what has become THE hot-button issue of the summer.
The congressman is understandably loathe to provide a platform to those who are more interested in making political points than finding out what the bills before [...]
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