Houston A new Paul Revere streaked across Massachusetts and many heard different warnings. Here’s what I took away: Fifty-nine (59) seats in the Senate is still a majority, but it’s a signal that we need to get busy. We should not accept 59 as a rationale to step back or tone down the demand for …
Month: January 2010
Mischief in Massachusetts
New Orleans A suddenly close Senate election in Massachusetts is bringing out the full rightwing arsenal. Wildly, a fixed page in the Republican playbook has now come to egg on heavy breather get-out-the-vote efforts by claiming that ACORN is massing from city to city in the Bay State to steal votes and mess with the …
Domestic Recycling Disputes
New Orleans Ok, I’m thinking about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement and the 10,000 person march in Phoenix on Saturday that is so much in that tradition yet has been silently buried in the press, and suddenly I stumble on an article about domestic disputes that are straining relationships around the issue …