Prime Minister Brian Cowen better make sure his mother isn’t ANYWHERE near Biden’s motorcade at the end of the presser.
Biden mistakenly blesses Irish leader’s motherWASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asked for God’s blessing for the late mother of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen during a White House celebration [...]
SPRING FOOD DRIVE
City of Methuen
Mayor William M. Manzi, III &
Representative Linda Dean Campbell
to benefit:
THE MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK, INC.
Mayor Manzi and Representative Campbell have teamed up to fight hunger. They are asking city employees, residents and businesses to make donations of nonperishable items to the Merrimack Valley Food [...]
from Vermont Loon Watch:
How we’ll pay for Proggy style health care All this started with that wonderful Jackass idea of the “GREAT SOCIETY” which wasn’t great and destroyed society. This is just the start! [...]
The annual St Patrick’s Day luncheon will be held tomorrow, with a cast of thousands scheduled to appear. We will have a visit from the Republican candidate for Governor Charlie Baker, Sheriff Guy Glodis, former Lawrence Mayor Mike Sullivan, Rep. Barbara L’Italien, Rep. Linda Dean Campbell, Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua, [...]
There are several open houses this weekend in great locations.
107 Sexton is an adorable, updated 4-bedroom Cape on a quiet street with lots of kids and close to Buckmaster Pond and the Sheehan School. 4/2/1795sf @529K. Open house Sunday, 3/21, 1-3pm.
Additionally,
Right around [...]"These questions seem so canned," a chatter calling himself "Sam" complained to the governor at the end of the chat. ".... everything is spelt" [...]
Happy St. Patrick's Day!Karen Merrill from the Open Space Committee notified us this week that Mark Fraser has another show on Thursday evening, “”Secrets of the Northern Forests.”
Click here to view the embedded video.
[...]Dear Friends,
I am excited to announce my candidacy for the Board of Selectman in Dracut. The election will be held on May 3, 2010. As many of you know, my ancestors have been in Dracut for over 300 years , and my children are the fifth generation of my family [...]
Joe Manzoli said Mihos owes him $44,500 for work he did for the convenience store magnate's bid to win the GOP nomination for governor. Mihos faces Charles Baker [...]
Kinder souls than I would call this “arm twisting” or the “legislative process”, but to me, it sure looks President Obama and Nancy Pelosi are turning the country into a Banana Republic right before our eyes:
Tuesday, the Department of Interior said it had sped up an announcement to [...]
At the end of the second night of the Dracut Scholarship Telethon, the hosts were able to announce that they had reached the level of $42,713.00
This is a good level, but shows a slowing on the second evening. The town needs to kick in over the next two days to [...]
1) Mandatory training for school staff in responding to bullying
2) the [...]
Dennis [...]
From sea to shining sea, the effect of RomneyCare in Massachusetts on Washington state.
The Seattle Times reports that Walgreens and Bartell Drugs chains are no longer accepting new Medicaid patients for prescriptions. Walgreens says “the state Medicaid program is reimbursing Walgreens below its cost to break even on [...]
With a tip of the cap to Allan Sherman…
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah, here I am at Camp Obama.
Camp is very straining. And they say we’ll have some fun if we stop complaining”.
It’s common knowledge that marriage is hard work. Although not my marriage, which involves round-the-clock bliss and paradise with my lovely wife, who reads this column. But most marriages are tough, mainly because of all the things they don’t tell you before you tie the knot. [...]
State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor making a play for fiscally conservative voters, said yesterday that the state's universal health care law is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally if Congress passes a similar plan.... Cahill, whose criticism of the 2006 health care [...]
Thanks to our honorary New Englander team for keeping Maggie's flowing with stuff while we are without power up here at Maggie's HQ in Yankeeland (photo).
As of this afternoon, I see utility trucks from Quebec, Ohio, and Maryland buzzing around. I also hear rumors of a union slowdown [...]
Is there no untruth the Republicans will pull out to attack with? I swear, with each passing year they get more hysterical and unhinged. The latest lie from the Right is about the Dem House leadership’s decision to use this “deem and pass” procedure, which will pass the Senate’s version [...]
In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix -- in print tomorrow, online now -- I consider how the Big Dig, aka Original Sin of Massachusetts Politics, is once again at issue in this year's state elections.
Not only do we have Democrats pounding Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker for his [...]
FWIW, the man I respected most of any I've met in my life and to whom I was closest to came out as gay. He was a Navy veteran, who'd served at Pelelieu and elsewhere in the Pacific during WWII. I sat with him through his last year before [...]
Do your kids like exotic animals? Want to see a bunch of whale skeletons suspended in mid-air? How about collections of every imaginable beetle, butterfly, and moth? Well, the Harvard Museum of Natural History may be just what you need. And Sundays are [...]
Well, if you're talking about the Senate bill combined with the reconciliation fix, the answer is yes, because that's a bill that saves lives' [...]
As a proud parent and grandparent, I understand that one of my generation's greatest responsibilities is to plan a better future for those who follow in our footsteps. Unfortunately, I think there are too many people in Washington, D.C. who do not understand this basic' [...] Megan McCardle at the Atlantic looks at the Gallup polls then and now:
Now, Medicare popularity did improve after it passed. On the other hand, it wasn't passed despite terrible polling, with a controversial process, by a political party that was tanking in popularity thanks to a' [...]
President Obama has jettisoned the US’ Grand Strategy that since World War II protected Western interests, according to Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace writing in the Washington Post.
The old strategy rested on a global network of formal military and political alliances, mostly [...]
