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Tag Archives: Joan Vennochi
Dead Blogging ‘The Menino Legacy’ At Ford Hall Forum
From our Late to the Party desk: This was actually written three days ago, but we misplaced it. Well the hardworking staff trundled down to the Ford Hall Forum last [Thursday] for The Menino Legacy: Down to the Wire and, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayanna Pressley, Charlotte Golar Richie, David Finnegan, Dennis Kearney, Eugene Rivers, Ford Hall Forum, Gangnam-style, Joan Vennochi, John Connolly, John Nucci, Kevin White, Larry DiCara, Linda Dorcena Forry, Marty Walsh, Mary Anne Marsh, Mel King, Michele Wu, Ray Flynn, The Menino Legacy, Tito Jackson, Tom Menino
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Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Murray?
The local dailies have very – all together now – different takes on yesterday’s swan song for Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray. The Boston Globe runs it upper left on today’s front page: The Boston Herald gives it all of Page One: And … Continue reading
Herald’s Gelzinis: Cahill A Good Guy. Globe’s Vennochi: Good Law, Bad Case
Two different – but not necessarily contradictory – takes in the local dailies about former Massachusetts Treasurer Tim Cahill’s close call with the law over financial shenanigans in the Bay State’s 2010 gubernatorial race. First up: Joan Vennochi’s column in Thursday’s Boston Globe: With … Continue reading
Jury’s Out On Carmen Ortiz
Not-quite-matching her & her columns in the local papers on the topic of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her (over?)zealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz. Start with Margery Eagan’s column in the Boston Herald: Outrage over zealous feds Statement too little, too late … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Brian Maloney Middlesex Truck & Coach Edition)
Two different worlds, we live in two different worlds . . . See IGTLTDT for details.
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brian Maloney, Joan Vennochi, Joe Battenfeld, Middlesex Truck & Coach
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Albert Haynesworth Edition)
Compare and contrast in clear idiomatic English: Boston Herald Inside Track item on freshly minted New England Patriot Albert Haynesworth: NBC football analyst Cris Collinsworth likens the New England Patriots [team stats]’ re-education of new tackle and NFL badboy Albert Haynesworth to “The Taming of the Shrew!” The “Sunday Night … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Haynesworth, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Inside Track, Joan Vennochi
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Boston Herald Whacks Boston Fixtures
Hard on the heels of Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi’s undressing of local macher and new BRA chief Peter Meade comes Boston Herald columnist Christine McConville’s dismantling of Michael Widmer (Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation) and Paul Grogan (Boston Foundation): Crusaders mum … Continue reading
Joan Vennochi Required Reading Link (pat. pending)
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Joan Vennochi is always a good read. But often she’s a required read. As in her Thursday column on the wired-like-Con-Ed Peter Meade, who was just appointed head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, a municipal agency … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, BRA, Joan Vennochi, Mayor Me(nino), Peter Meade, Tom Menino, wired like Con Ed
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Johnny Damonized
Sharp Joan Vennochi piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe headlined “Bronx cheer? Boston’s harsher.” Lede: GO TO New York for affirmation; come to Boston for boos. Every city has its psyche, as Johnny Damon knows. Damon, former hero of the Boston … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Bronx cheer, Joan Vennochi, Johnny Damon, New York Yankees
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