German Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered all the Pavlovian anti-Trump dog whistles. She talked about walls and climate change. She mentioned gun violence and multilateralism. She referred to free trade and globalism. And she condemned nationalism and isolationism.
Checking off the liberal agenda, the only line she omitted was sharply rebuking "the deplorables."
The last remaining city in Massachusetts with a Board of Aldermen is asking the state Legislature to approve a change in the city's charter to make its top board a city council, in order to go gender-neutral.
State Representative Paul Brodeur, a Democrat from Melrose who is running for mayor, told State House News Service he first proposed the change when he was an alderman in 2004, but that it went nowhere.
