All the president’s mess

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Aug 22, 2018

It’s absurd to think a president could ever be impeached for lying about sex. Or so was the prevailing wisdom until it happened in 1998 to Bill Clinton. Twenty years later the specter of another such chapter is suddenly not that far-fetched. It’s too soon to know where things are heading, but it’s hardly rushing(...)

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Pizzuti Henry takes charge at the Globe

By CommonWealth Staff Pizzuti Henry 0 Comments Aug 21, 2018

Now we know what a managing director does at the Boston Globe: She runs the place. After a long period in which Linda Pizzuti Henry took on more and more responsibility at the newspaper but shied away from saying she was in charge, the tune changed on Monday. Pizzuti Henry announced in a memo to the(...)

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The Codcast: Charter battle heats up in New Bedford

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Aug 20, 2018

Think the battle over charter schools in Massachusetts is over? Think again. Voters may have soundly defeated a ballot question two years ago to raise the cap on charters, but there is plenty of room in some communities under the existing cap to add more charter school seats. One of them is New Bedford, where(...)

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Get ready to cheer for the Woosox

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Aug 17, 2018

Worcester, a Gateway City on its way up, appears poised to spend some of its hard-won capital to land the Red Sox triple-A affiliate, which will be nicknamed the Woosox. Team and city officials aren’t saying anything, but they have scheduled a press conference for Friday afternoon at City Hall to announce the deal. Worcester(...)

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Full-court press against Trump’s media attacks

By CommonWealth Staff The Boston Globe 0 Comments Aug 16, 2018

One of the best-known lines concerning the job of the press in the Trump era, where a US president with little regard for the First Amendment to the Constitution he swore to defend seems to attack journalism on an almost daily basis, comes from Washington Post editor Marty Baron. “We are not at war, we’re(...)

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The gloves are off in Secretary of State race

Galvin, Zakim go toe-to-toe on voter registration and dark money

By CommonWealth Staff Josh Zakim, William Galvin 0 Comments Aug 15, 2018

The Democratic primary race for the normally staid office of Secretary of State is turning into one of the most bruising battles of the season. About the only thing missing in the one and only televised debate between incumbent William Galvin and challenger Josh Zakim was headgear and eight-ounce gloves. The debate on Greater Boston,(...)

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Berkshire County power politics

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Aug 14, 2018

The race for district attorney in Berkshire County is shaping up to be a primer on what’s wrong with elections in Massachusetts. The first sign came in March, when then-District Attorney David Capeless announced he was stepping down after 14 years in office and turning the reins over to his assistant, Paul Caccaviello. Capeless admitted(...)

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The Codcast: Two candidates bucking the incumbents-rule rule

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Aug 13, 2018

When it comes to the Massachusetts Legislature, voters won’t have a lot of choice this fall, either during the primary on September 4 or the general election in November. Seventy-eight percent of the 200 candidates running for the House and Senate will face no opposition in the primary. Most of that group (55 percent) will(...)

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Freeze criticism of ICE?

By CommonWealth Staff Andrew Lelling 0 Comments Aug 10, 2018

A Cambridge resident was arrested Thursday morning in New York City for allegedly tweeting that he would pay $500 to anyone who killed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Today’s Boston Herald goes all in on the story, putting it on its front-page and featuring a newspaper editorial and column by Joe Battenfeld on the(...)

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Opioids’ path of destruction in construction

By CommonWealth Staff Massachusetts politics, opioid crisis, President Trump 0 Comments Aug 9, 2018

Differences in health patterns among different population groups is a well-established fact. Indeed, it forms the foundation for an entire field of health research, epidemiology, which has contributed enormously to our understanding of the causes of disease. But a new report from the state Department of Public Health documenting the astonishingly high rate of opioid(...)


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