Republican State Senator Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat occupied by Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy since 1962 (until his death last year) in a special election against state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Brown came away with 52%; Coakley 47%. Republicans gleeful; Democrats demoralized and begin to take their usual places in the [...]
I had to rip this one off from the front page of E-Notes in its entirety. He probably posted it after my little anxiety email I slipped in his mailbox yesterday evening. This analysis of news media “calls” on elections was conducted by Black Box Voting.org, the group run by Bev Harris based [...]
This is the one pilgrimage I planned during my stay in Boston in June - a visit to Concord, Massachusetts. Concord is the site of the first battle of the Revolutionary War. I’m so used to “Freedom Trails” meaning Underground Railroad stops around the Mason Dixon line and the mid-west. In New [...]
Thursday is the big day. President Barack Obama pops a brew with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gates’ arresting officer Sargeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department at the White House for an informal chat about…..health care reform. Wouldn’t that be interesting (!?).
But this is supposed to [...]
