No one has a right to hold onto an office in perpetuity, but having served a long time shouldn't necessarily be a disqualifier. Senator Ed Markey has been in public office nearly half a century. The one-term+ US Senator has been in Washington for 43 years, both as a member of the House and of …
Continue reading Mass. Senate race: an embarrassment of riches?
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's first televised interview as a nearly announced presidential candidate was with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. The interaction was about as challenging as a Donald Trump interview with Sean Hannity. From there, she went on to Iowa, where the questions got a little bit tougher and are just a foretaste of what she …
Continue reading Elizabeth Warren: U.S. President or Massachusetts Senator?
Candidate A once held the position of Secretary of Administration and Finance, nicknamed the deputy governor of the Commonwealth. He was also an executive in a health care company, a sector that is vital to everyone in the state and a driver of the economy. He is a really good guy. Candidate B, well, he …
Continue reading Gube race: Baker less visionary, more realistic
I hate being in large crowds but had to be at Boston Common yesterday for the local version of the Women's March occurring in hundreds of cities around the nation and on all continents. As with anti-Vietnam War marches in the late sixties and early seventies, this was a time to stand up and be …
Times have changed for Sixth district Congressman John Tierney, and things are looking good. This, though he faces a rerun of the 2012 challenge from Republican Richard Tisei and, in the September primary, four challengers within his own party. Tierney went through a few miserable years, thanks to his wife's legal troubles (She pled guilty to helping …
New is good. New is exciting. New is full of promise. That seemed the mood at Boston College today when Martin Joseph Walsh was sworn in as the 54th mayor of Boston, the first new Boston mayor inaugurated in the 21st century. Public ceremonies like inaugurations are supposed to bind together in shared values all …
Marjorie Arons-Barron 