After observing, measuring and monitoring our nation's dysfunctional political system for more than two decades, I have come to recognize that it is broken beyond repair.
There is obviously something wrong when our two major political parties have each nominated a candidate for president who is viewed unfavorably by a majority of Americans. In 2016, the partisans will support their team or vote against the other while the remaining voters don't like either option.
WORCESTER — A gaggle of gun owners staked out a busy downtown street corner Wednesday morning, the latest in a series of organized demonstrations against what they claim has been an unconstitutional expansion of the state's assault weapons ban by Attorney General Maura Healey.
Bryan Donovan of Holden was one of about 25 people who held "Healey Hurts Families" signs and said he doubts whether the attorney general even cares about licensed gun owners.
