Massachusetts is a world-class laggard when it comes to public support of the arts, and things could get even worse. The Massachusetts House just cut funding for the Mass. Cultural Council (MCC) by $2 million, to $12.2 million. (Originally, House Ways & Means had tried to cut twice than amount.) There's still time for the Senate to restore the MCC to …
Month: April 2016
Bathroom bill looms in Massachusetts
I have a friend. Let's call her Suzannah. She is over six feet tall, blue-eyed, platinum hair in a page boy. Terrific set of gams, as my father would say. She's married to a smart and talented guy. But here's a problem. It's the bathroom law, currently in effect in North Carolina and Georgia and under consideration …
Rocky road to electronic medical records
Have you ever wondered if the doctor who saw you in his office would recognize you if you met at the grocery? He or she might not, and it's not just because you're in street clothes. It might be that, with new health care regulations for computerized data gathering, he spent most of your annual checkup facing the computer …
Campaign 2016: Jousting in the Jungle
Storm clouds gathered over Serengeti, New York. The weaver birds and bee-eaters stopped their day’s work and gathered nervously in the limbs of the acacia trees. Even the flamingos out on Lake Nakuru stopped their soaring flight and gathered in the shallows, intensifying the pink of the mudflats and the lagoons. All around, the grebes …
Red Sox: hope springs eternal
There's a 4" x 3" piece of paper held by magnet on my refrigerator door. The paper is yellow. It's the American League standing from the first days of the 2015 season. Boston was at the top of the East division, with an .800 record. It had won four and lost one game. The scrap was …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 