I'm reading Joanna Weiss' inaugural op-ed while Mrs. O.L. is reading about the season's hottest new toy.A. Watch college football
B. Watch soccer at the Banshee or Phoenix Landing?
c. Rake leaves
D. Prepare for Thanksgiving
E. Drink by yourself and mumble incoherently about big guvment
F. Participate in our LIVE blogging of the health care debate in the Senate
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One service I believe this blog could provide is to start conversations about issues and events in town, then open things up for others to comment with more details about what they know from more direct experience. For a newspaper, a reporter must do all the legwork--to talk to multiple [...]
A friend who lives in Lowell sent me this link to a LGBT blog towleroad . This past weekend in Puerto Rico a 19-year-old gay man, Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado was murdered, his body was partially burned, his head decapitated and his limb dismembered. The story was disturbing on [...]
Yesterday, I announced my candidacy for State Representative in the Fourth Suffolk District, including all of South Boston and the Upham's Corner and Harbor Point neighborhoods of Dorchester. The Democratic Primary will be in September of 2010 with the General Election in November of 2010.
I look [...]
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US Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca intensified pressure yesterday on Democratic rivals Martha Coakley and Michael E. Capuano to drop their opposition to any final national health care bill that contains a provision limiting federal funding for abortion.
"They will scuttle this bill on" [...]
12:19 AM - I've arrived home after watching the Patriots, and found some hummus in the fridge, but I'm concerned I have too much pita bread compared to how much hummus I have left. This could be a problem.
12:20 AM - Checking to see if anyone has commented on [...]
Two prominent blogs raise the question of whether President Obama is an “idiot.”
John Hinderaker at PowerLine wonders, “One seriously hesitates to draw the conclusion that Barack Obama is an idiot, no matter how strongly the evidence may point in that direction. But what are we to make of [...]
Margery Eagan has a great column today that truly makes you hope the Mayan calendar might be right.More blogs about Politics.I would like to find a way to make WestwoodBlog a sustainable community resource. By "sustainable" I ultimately mean revenue-generating so that I can afford to treat it as a part of my business and afford to spend the consistent time necessary to manage it effectively. I think one of [...]
You can find more description of yesterday’s event and some photos on the City Manager’s blog. The post takes a much more narrative form than mine, describing the event and some quotes from the speakers.
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Barbara Anderson has featured Red Mass Group prominently in her latest column distributed to many Massachusetts Newspapers. Here is a link to the column at The Salem News. In the column Barbara relives her experience live blogging the health-care vote with us.
I wasn't going to miss the next' [...]