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You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows "Subterranean Homesick Blues" — Bob Dylan WCVB-TV meteorologist Mike Wankum seemed crestfallen last Sunday night during a post-mortem of Winter Storm Jonas. A mere six inches of snow fell on Boston as a large swath
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"The Baker-Polito Administration Year in Review – 2016," released nearly a year after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker assumed the corner office is, in many respects, a blistering indictment of Deval Patrick's eight years as governor. It begins a section entitled "Fixes and Reforms," which lists
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"It is right there Betwixt and between The orchard bare And the orchard green" — Robert Frost from "Peril of Hope" With an eerie prescience, the January 9 front page print edition of The Boston Globe captured perfectly the mixture of fear and anticipation associated with the
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"Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness" — George Orwell from "Politics and the English Language" (1946) What would George Orwell, who once described his own work in "Selected Writings" as "against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism,"
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As Ohio goes, so should Massachusetts. On Nov. 3, Ohio voters — in every one of its 88 counties — overwhelmingly rejected Issue 3, a ballot measure that would have launched a legal medical and recreational marijuana industry in the state.
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By any standard – the physical and metaphysical – former Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) should not be alive today considering the extreme comorbidity of his mental illnesses and addictions. That is one of several conclusions one might reach from Kennedy's extraordinarily engrossing memoir, "A Common Struggle" (Blue
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"I'm telling ya. Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third." — Bud Abbott, from Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" Speculation abounds these days that President Obama will endorse
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Green energy enthusiasts are fond of lecturing Americans about the need to turn to cleaner sources of power. But recent calls to close the aging Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station expose the incongruous and irrational energy policy advocated by those who condemn oil and coal, and yet loathe the largest, most