Archive for August, 2011

Elizabeth Warren visits the Globe

Elizabeth Warren’s pre-campaign for the United States Senate seemed to enter a new phase yesterday. Previously, she’s attended a bunch of invitation-only, off the record house parties that were closed to the media. Yesterday she visited the Boston Globe which has a story by Frank Phillips and Noah Bierman and…

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Guilty plea by Tully

The Globe reports that former Lowell City Manager Joe Tully pleaded guilty yesterday in US District Court to one count of wire fraud in a case that arose out of the closing-then-relocation of the Registry of Motor Vehicles office in the city. While the maximum possible sentence could be up…

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Did the media overplay Hurricane Irene?

[youtube]rM9fp7B-Xec[/youtube] If you haven’t yet considered the question now being posed by many, “did the media overplay Hurricane Irene?”, just watch the above clip and your answer will have to be yes. That’s because this 4 minute, 26 second clip depicts a Fox news reporter perched on the ocean-front boardwalk…

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A Post in Reply to a Comment

On my last post, there were a number of comments, but I wanted to highlight one thing Cliff wrote. I thought that this part of a comment he left was worth a full response. Quoted directly: “We can pound Gov Perry for pandering to those of his supporters who don’t…

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