While the feedback I got from my earlier question about canceling our subscription to the Globe was largely negative (here’s a sample from Universal Hub: “If you enjoy reading the paper, keep your subscription. A newspaper dropped on your front stoop is a wonderful thing to wake up to each morning. That and coffee of [...]
A few days ago I came back from a rare early-morning run and noticed an old car slowly easing its way up our street, drive-by style. The man was clearly lost. He was also delivering the Boston Globe.
That’s yet another reason to cancel our subscription to the Globe: the horrible environmental impact of the delivery [...]
Finding ourselves unable to install a windmill on the roof, Gene and I choose the NStar Green option today. So this means that we’ll be running our lights and laptops on wind power, right? Not quite. Our switch to green supports wind power, but apparently can’t guarantee wind sourcing. For that, we’ll be paying [...]
Dear Governor Patrick:
This supporter and volunteer still stands by you… but it’s been hard, and I fervently hope to hear you once again taking up the moral leadership that so many of us invested in you as governor of our Commonwealth.
I volunteered many hours helping you win the nomination and then the election because you [...]
Published today in the Boston Globe:
I was among the young Christians who traveled to Park Street Church last month to hear Jim Wallis’s call for social justice (”A New Generation Awakens,” March 12), and I can testify that a generational shift is indeed underway within American Christianity.
In [...]
Dan Payne’s analysis of the Presidential race in today’s Boston Globe illustrates why he was a bad fit for the Deval Patrick campaign, which he left soon before Deval blew the lid off the 2006 Democratic gubernatorial primaries. Payne repeatedly cites, while also chastising himself for citing, poll numbers without any serious analysis of the [...]
There’s a lesson in yesterday’s Massachusetts results that, in fairness to Hillary supporters, might give Obama fans some pause. As I described, we never really expected to win Massachusetts, but I do feel that we fell a few points shy of where we could have been in the popular vote (even if we achieved exactly [...]
We had known, when we arrived at Massachusetts headquarters last weekend, that the Obama campaign had pretty much given up on the Commonwealth; after South Carolina most of MA’s staff decamped to Connecticut, leaving behind a skeleton crew of seven (!). More on the strategic reasons behind this shift later.
Essentially, the local campaign’s task seems [...]
Nasty rain today (so much for my hand-painted sign ), but turnout looks pretty strong. Here in Ward 4, Precinct 1, we were counting 186 ballots by 9am — very brisk voting rate, I think.
Did visibility at the polls early morning (7-9am). Our small signs were disintegrating in the rain, and someone ran [...]
White homeowners afraid of a black family moving into their neighborhoods often encourage the would-be seller to pull the home off the market. “I’m not racist,” they explain, “but other people are. And all of our home prices will suffer.”
These homeowners are perpetuating bigotry, and so are voters who won’t cast their ballots for a [...]
