The Boston Globe is mounting a big campaign to have the Commonwealth of Massachusetts name the new downtown tunnel segment of Interstate 93 in memory of former U.S. and Mass. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. over Gov. Romney’s designation of the I-93 section as Liberty Tunnel. A few facts Democratic leaders at the State… Continue reading

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The US military success has prompted some interesting thoughts from Michael Barone: “One of the peculiar features of our country is that we produce incompetent 18-year-olds and remarkably competent 30-year-olds. Americans at 18 typically score lower on standardized tests than 18-year-olds from other advanced countries. Watch them on their first few days working at McDonald’s… Continue reading

Joe Sciacca’s column in this morning’s Boston Herald about Saturday night’s debate—if that’s the way the Democratic Party would like to describe the word game its nine candidates for the 2004 Presidential nomination played in South Carolina—was one of, if not the best, he has ever written in his years at the bustling independent daily… Continue reading

Yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe Magazine whose full-page cover featured a gross illustration of President Bush’s head was totally unlike and not befitting the handsome likeness he has. It will be interesting to follow the Globe’s Sunday Magazine in the months ahead and see what the publisher and the Sunday editor decide to do about smiling… Continue reading