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With Washington consumed by how President Donald Trump may be redefining the party of Reagan, a closer look at the president's proposed budget reveals that he may be reviving the politics of Reagan. But brace yourself for the spooky suspense looming with his Reaganesque-ideas on infrastructure. Released a
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Lost earlier this month amid gripping stories of plunging temperatures and plundering wire taps was the news that Boston charter schools received a record number of applications. This welcome development should prompt Governor Charlie Baker, who rightly and robustly supports charter schools, to renew efforts to reconsider expansion of these
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"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." — Bertha Calloway, activist and historian
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"… let's go to the party!" — Dan Rowan
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Over twenty years ago, during a segment that always followed the introduction of his Sunday program This Week — in what must have been a first for television news programming — the late David Brinkley simply said: "First, as for the news since the Sunday morning papers, there isn't
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Suit and tie comes up to me His face red Like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peeling off those dollar bills — "Bullet the Blue Sky," 1987 U2's angry, angst-driven anthem was meant to
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Gentle reader, if the feverish pace of change in technology, globalization and climate change both fascinates and frightens you, read Tom Friedman's new book, Thank You for Being Late. His forensic examination and farsighted explanation of the acceleration of everything is an exercise in expeditionary learning and his
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If Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker had to defend his incumbency in the cataclysmic election last week he likely would have lost. Baker can only hope that the political landscape for his reelection in 2018 is like 2014, not 2016, to ensure victory. In Massachusetts, being moderate and popular can be