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APPOINTED SOMERVILLE OFFICIAL SPURS OUTRAGE WITH TWEETS FROM DC MOB SCENE

Written by MARC LEVY Posted January 9, 2021 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Mayor Curtatone says “We’re taking it seriously and doing our due diligence”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: attack, Capitol, Congress, DC, House of Representatives, insurrection, MAGA, Massachusetts, mob, official, President Donald Trump, Protest, rally, Riot, senate, SOMERVILLE, United States, US, Washington

KENNEDY IS YOUNGER THAN MARKEY. WHAT ELSE?

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 25, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

The first debate, for me, didn’t demonstrate a compelling reason to replace Markey—to swap an older straight white male for a younger one.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Debate, Ed Markey, JKIII, Joe Kennedy, Politics, senate, Senate Race, WGBH

IN DEFENSE OF TELLING FAMILY MEMBERS THAT THEY AREN’T QUALIFIED TO ARGUE WITH YOU ABOUT POLITICS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

A few weeks ago, I went there. I told family members who reside politically south of America’s metaphorical Mason-Dixon line that they were unqualified to wrestle with me on the subject of impeachment.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: books, Brenda Wineapple, Congress, Family, history, Impeachment, Politics, senate, The Impeachers, trial, Trump

PROXY WARFARE: THE US SENATE RACE IN MASS MAY GET UGLY, BUT NOT SERIOUS

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted July 17, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For a meaningless contest, there’s major national significance to Warren’s reelection scrum

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Beth Lindstrom, conservatives, Elizabeth Warren, Geoff Diehl, GOP, immigration, Kingston, liberals, Massachusetts, SCOTUS, senate, Trump

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: OUTRAGE & ECSTASY

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted July 5, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Queer dance party descends on McConnell’s house in anger over health care repeal

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Carla Aronsohn, Congressional Budget Office, Healthcare, house, lgbt, Mitch McConnell, National Center for Transgender Equality, Rebecca Kling, senate

GUEST OP-ED: THEY CAN’T BREATHE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 15, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

On exploitation and asbestos (plus solutions)

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: asbestos, Beacon Hill, Boston, building boom, construction, Donald Trump, house, immigrant workers, lawmakers, legislature, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, mitigation, senate, State House, undocumented workers

BROKEN RECORDS: APPEALS NONSENSE

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted September 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Drafting these regulations was an opportunity to clarify vague and troubling language, but Galvin’s office has failed to address several issues left by state lawmakers.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Commonwealth, house, Mass Municipal Association, Massachusetts, MMA, public records, public records reform, Secretary of State, senate, William Galvin

BROKEN RECORDS: THE SECRETARY OF SECRECY, PART III

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted May 25, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Testimony from state’s agency that oversees the public records law shows how little they care about the public’s access to records

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Commonwealth, house, Mass Municipal Association, Massachusetts, MMA, public records, public records reform, Secretary of State, senate, William Galvin

GREATEST HITS: ON ‘BLACK MASS’ AND ‘THE BLACK PANTHERS’

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted September 16, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Black Mass is the one thing it shouldn’t be.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: benedict cumberbatch, billy bulger, Black Lives Matter, Black Mass, black panthers, Book, Boston Globe, dakota johnson, Dick Lehr, eldridge cleaver, FBI, Gerard O’Neil, Howie Carr, huey p newton, Joel Edgerton, John Connelly, Johnny Depp, Kevin Weeks, senate, Stephen Flemmi, UMass, Whitey Bulger

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