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Friday, January 9, 2009

Howard Dean: Revived an ailing Democratic Party

Howard Dean is coming home. Oh, not full time in his native Vermont quite yet, though he’ll be back there “as...

Nanny takes charge

When the going gets tough, the tough tackle childhood obesity. The Patrick administration yesterday jumped on the obesity...

Barack Obama on right track

It’s reassuring to hear President-elect Barack Obama promise an overhaul of Social Security and Medicare as he did...
Thursday, January 8, 2009

Pols speak no evil

Say someone lived under a rock for the last year and crawled out just long enough to attend yesterday’s public swearing-in...

Deal flunks smell test

The nearly half-million dollar paycheck that Billy Starr collects to run the Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, a cancer-fighting...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Overdose of cure

Gov. Deval Patrick this week announced plans for an initiative to contain the growing cost of health care in Massachusetts...

Barack Obama takes the pledge

Even as members of Congress were being sworn in to their new terms, President-elect Barack Obama was vowing that the nearly...

Closing the barn door

This could be a very interesting year indeed on Beacon Hill if Gov. Deval Patrick is willing to put his political capital...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

‘Dearest Hugo . . . ’

So Joe Kennedy’s former BFF, Hugo Chavez, has pulled the plug on on that free oil distributed by Citizens Energy. Well,...

More Blagojevich fallout

They have their issues, to be sure, but the Democrats on Beacon Hill have nothing on their counterparts in Illinois. Now,...
Monday, January 5, 2009

The numbers game

For the second year in a row the murder rate in Boston has dropped, and while hardly cause for celebration it is news at...

Don’t drive to extremes

Former Gov. Mitt Romney was fond of deriding our old auto insurance system for being designed in the “Soviet style.”...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

A real stimulus bill

What President-elect Barack Obama will propose to stimulate the economy after he takes office isn’t known, but it will be a large sum, perhaps $1...

Beating the competition

Massachusetts again ranks first in a quadrennial survey of the states’ assets in science and technology. As pleasant as this is to contemplate, the survey...
Saturday, January 3, 2009

Just hook up the hybrid

John Sweeney of Harvard, Mass., has provided a tantalizing glimpse of the future. He hooked up his Toyota Prius to power...

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Cancer survivor making strides

Peter Gelzinis Claudine Humure’s smile was as vibrant yesterday as it was on...

No dough? Free time, on Howie

Howie Carr Massachusetts legislators, have I got a deal for you! As you know...

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