Category Archives: Uncategorized

Feast of the Three Saints Announcement and Schedule

NEWS ALERT: Feast of Three Saints Announcement: Due to the impending heavy rain and high winds slated to hit the Greater Lawrence area on Friday, Sept 3rd from hurricane Earl the activities planned for the Opening Day of the Feast … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Mass Dems on the Attack

The Massachusetts Democratic Party unveiled a short web video attacking Charlie Baker’s tenure as the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, highlighting the rate increases for customers and the pay increases for himself that occurred during his time there. While Deval Patrick … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Education Dollars to Methuen

Governor Patrick’s education announcement. Methuen will receive $1.8 million in education funding from this federal grant. NEW BEDFORD – Wednesday, August 25, 2010 – Governor Deval Patrick today allocated $204 million from the federal Education Jobs Fund to school districts … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Deficit Reduction? Well Yes, But Maybe No.

The Wall Street Journal has written a story about the subject garnering a lot of press these days, the deficit. And there are plenty of stories that run directly off the question of how to deal with the deficit, principally … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Some Nasty Poll Results and Morning Joe

The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released this week has some pretty ugly numbers for both Republicans and Democrats, as well as the President. I have attached the full file below. Which bad news to go over first. Is … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 7 Comments

A Quick Hitter on Education Standards

Quite a lot of back and forth over the adoption of the federal Common Core standards for education in Massachusetts. It deserves a post of its own, which I will get to. For now here is the Governor hitting Charlie … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

Where Is the Beef?

The Republicans were all over weekend talk shows talking about their prospects for victory in November. Plenty of criticism for the President and Democrats on the deficit, but when repeatedly pressed for one area where they would make substantive change … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Haley and Deval

The Republican Governor’s Association, already having blotted out Treasurer Tim Cahill, are now trying to do the same for Governor Deval Patrick, launching a new wave of negative ads against the Governor. (And they are still carpet bombing Tim Cahill … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Cahill Strikes Back

Treasurer Tim Cahill, sagging under a new barrage of negative ads from Haley Barbour and the RGA, attempted to hit back with an internet ad today, calling Charlie Baker untrustworthy because of his involvement with the Big Dig and highlighting … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

President Obama on Helping Our Vets

The President used his weekly address to talk about beefing up our assistance for veterans, including additional funding for the V.A., a post 9/11 GI Bill, and additional help for vets who end up homeless. The President also spoke of … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment