Former Lt. Governor Kerry Healey, who was thought to be considering a Senate run early on, announced she was endorsing fellow Republican Scott Brown.
“Scott Brown knows that you don�t create jobs by making government bigger, letting spending get out of control and increasing taxes,� said Healey, in a statement. �Scott has been a leader in [...]

President praises work of MIT

After an attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life, Glenn Berwin’s family and their property was seized along with many other Jews in Munich.
Berwin’s uncle owned two restaurants and a shop there. They were seized along with his World War I veteran’s pension.
“It seemed hopeless,” Berwin said in a statement Monday. “I thought the [...]

Trying to draw a clear line in the sand between Massachusetts Democrats and the oft-moderate Republicans, State Senator and US Senate candidate Scott Brown (R-Wrentham) launched a YouTube video emphasizing his support for capital punishment.

“My Democratic opponents Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano are having an ongoing debate over who’s more liberal,” Brown says in the [...]

State officials, high school students and advocates for new voting laws in Massachusetts urged the state Election Laws Committee to consider a bill that would change the landscape of voter registration for teenagers under the age of 18, yesterday at the State House.
As part of the Massachusetts Freedom to Vote Act, the proposed [...]

What’s the difference between archiving and just backing up?

An art expert travels to Cuba

Consider two scenes.
The first occurs during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch, an attorney for the for the U.S. Army asks Senator Joseph McCarthy to provide evidence to the attorney general of his accusations that there are communists working in U.S. defense plants. Instead, McCarthy names someone from Welch’s law office in Boston. [...]

Governor Deval Patrick’s response to President Barack Obama’s speech to the joint Congress:
I commend the president for strong leadership on health care. This President is clearly prepared to seize the best chance we have had in generations to deliver security and stability for those Americans who have health insurance and affordable choices for those [...]

A Republican living in the heart of Boston shares her perspective

Twitter, blogs, Facebook and more come alive to flame heckling Republican

Well, he’s got balls.

The full text of Ted Kennedy Jr.’s remembrance at his father, Senator Ted Kennedy’s funeral.

The funeral program and a list of important guests

THE PRESIDENT: Your Eminence, Vicki, Kara, Edward, Patrick, Curran, Caroline, members of the Kennedy family, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens:
Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward as the heir to a weighty legacy; a champion for those who had [...]

A brief primer on the long life and career of Edward M. Kennedy.

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is calling for his colleagues in the Senate to honor his “best friend in the Senate” by naming the seemingly-impending health care reform legislation after the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who died after a year-long battle with brain cancer yesterday.
Health care reform was one of Kennedy’s flagship [...]

What did Kennedy actually do?

A recap of the first couple’s Tuesday on Martha’s Vineyard

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization — What are China and Russia Up To?

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