The other Warren comes to Salem
Press wasn’t invited when Harvard prof Elizabeth Warren — the instant establishment favorite — visited Ipswich recently for event at Bill Wasserman’s home. But this reporter was among those present at...
View ArticleRomney looking, sounding confident
Though somewhat taken aback by the breaking news that Florida legislators are thinking of moving the Sunshine State primary to Jan. 31, and acknowledging Obama has, at least statistically, a 50-50...
View ArticleWho will succeed Fred Berry?
Fred Berry’s decision to retire at the end of his current term represents a major setback for the North Shore. The Peabody Democrat is a close confidante of Senate President Therese Murray which gives...
View ArticleSkeleton in every closet, now it’s Tisei’s turn
Republican congressional candidate Richard Tisei’s campaign committee issued the following statement shortly before 9 Tuesday night: (Lynnfield, MA) – Responding to reports carried by news media this...
View ArticleWhat Democrats have to say on Tisei’s troubles
And here’s the statement released this morning from Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh: “Our thoughts and prayers are with Richard Tisei’s sister and his family today. While we hope she...
View ArticleTisei quick to respond to Tierney jibes
Efforts by Democratic incumbent John Tierney to link him with GOP effort to limit women’s access to birth control drew a quick rebuke from Republican challenger Richard Tisei today. Here’s the text of...
View ArticleRebuke of Granite State’s ‘bumbling’ GOP
Reason for Democrats in New Hampshire and elsewhere to take heart. From today’s Eagle-Tribune: Former New Hampshire House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt’s attempt to lie and cheat his way to a law...
View ArticleSad contrast: MA v. AZ
Talk about going from the sublime to the ridiculous. For past 30 years this reporter’s state senator was Fred Berry of Peabody, one of the most respected members of the MA legislature, currently Senate...
View ArticleWill Rogers on Obama v. Romney
“So here we are, in a country with more wheat, and more corn, and more money in the bank, more cotton, more everything in the world; there’s not a product that you can name that we haven’t got more of...
View ArticleThis 9/11 anniversary sadder than most
Eleven years ago this morning I was in the Dunham Road newsroom of The Salem News watching smoke and flames spew from one of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan. Colleague Jimmy Carlson, the...
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