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Friday, January 9, 2009

Howard Dean: Revived an ailing Democratic Party

By Wayne Woodlief

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

6 Comments

Nanny takes charge

By Boston Herald Editorial staff

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

2 Comments

Barack Obama on right track

By Boston Herald Editorial staff

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

6 Comments

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Pols speak no evil

By Boston Herald editorial staff

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

5 Comments

Deal flunks smell test

By Boston Herald editorial staff

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

8 Comments

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Overdose of cure

By Boston Herald editorial staff

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

4 Comments

Barack Obama takes the pledge

By Boston Herald editorial staff

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

4 Comments

Closing the barn door

By Boston Herald editorial staff

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

2 Comments

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

‘Dearest Hugo . . . ’

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

4 Comments

More Blagojevich fallout

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

1 Comment

Monday, January 5, 2009

The numbers game

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

3 Comments

Don’t drive to extremes

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

1 Comment

Sunday, January 4, 2009

A real stimulus bill

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

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

By Boston Herald Editorial staff

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

4 Comments

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