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NYT Enters The (Dela)Hunt
The (Bill Dela)Hunt started with this Boston Globe piece on Saturday: Delahunt, champion of wind project, now may profit from it In Congress, he helped Hull secure $1.7m; as consultant, he’s in line for no-bid contract As a congressman, William … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Delahunt, Boston Globe, Hull, New York Times, wind energy
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Mitt Romney Is Contagious
Turns out Mitt Romney (R-Flip . . . Or Is It Flop?) is a carrier as well. From Sunday’s Boston Herald (no link because the Herald website is a piece a crap) about Romney’s ham-handed response to calls that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Mitt Romney, Stuart Stevens, tax returns, The Detroit News, Vishnu, wiggle room
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Joe K3 Edition)
House of Kennedy golden (actually, red-headed) boy Joseph P. the Third is reportedly considering a run for the open Fourth Congressional District seat in Massachusetts, but the reports in the local dailies vary considerably in how they present his explorations. … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Boston Deadbeat Non-Profits Edition)
Boston Mayor Tom Menino has lately been shaking down major tax-exempt institutions with his “payment in lieu of taxes,” or PILOT, program – with mixed results and mixed reviews. Regarding the latter, here’s the Boston Globe’s Saturday report: Nonprofits boosting Boston’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston PILOT program, Crash Browser Dummy, Tom Menino
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Sony Is The Resident Evil In Movie Trailer
From the Sneak ADtack! Product Placement Patrol Jon Bershad of Mediaite is in high dudgeon over a new Resident Evil trailer that takes product placement to new lows. Worst Product Placement Ever?: The New Resident Evil Trailer Is Basically Just A Sony Ad In the age of … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Clean Gene Edition)
From Matt Labash’s lively Occupy New Hampshire Primary piece in the current Weekly Standard: [A septuagenerian Occupier] puts a nice capper on the evening and, indeed, on the whole New Hampshire primary experience: “It’s like Senator Eugene McCarthy used to say, … Continue reading
Who Is Taylor Wells?
So out of the blue this pops up in the top lefthand corner of Page One of Friday’s Boston Herald: Huh? Do we know a Wells at the Herald? It’s clearly not Jonathan Wells, former ace reporter for the feisty … Continue reading
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Tagged bleeping Herald, Boston Herald, Jonathan Wells, Marshall McLuhan, mosaic press, NPR, Taylor Wells
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Correction o’ the Day (Abolish The Leap Second Edition)
From Friday’s New York Times: FRONT PAGE Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about disagreement among countries over whether to abolish the leap second omitted an element of the leap year cycle. The leap year adds a day to … Continue reading
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Tagged abolish the leap second, corrections, leap year, New York Times
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Dead Blogging The GOP’s Umpteenth Presidential Primary Debate
The hardworking staff only caught bits and pieces of last night’s CNN Republican presidential bakeoff in South Carolina so . . . only bits and pieces: • Between the candidate intros and the singing of the national anthem, CNN completed … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, John King, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Southern Republican Debate, Stop It!
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