Contributor ReportsMassachusetts gov moves funds for Patriots bridge
Source: Merced Sun-Star
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Fri Dec 04 14:23:09 -0800 2009 | political-news
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick moved Friday to defuse a potential political time bomb by announcing he will no longer use federal economic stimulus money to pay for a pedestrian footbridge sought by the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots....
Vicki Kennedy: Primaries a 'bittersweet' event
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Fri Dec 04 09:05:11 -0800 2009 | political-news
E dward Kennedy’s widow says she’s feeling bittersweet as Massachusetts wraps up its primary campaign to fill his U.S...Vicki Kennedy said in an interview that Tuesday’s primaries are about "filling a term that he wasn’t able to complete." She refuses...
Stim2 talks heating up
Source: The Arlington Advocate
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Fri Dec 04 06:00:50 -0800 2009 | political-news
Winning applause from advocates for a three-year, $300 billion stimulus proposal aimed at creating 2.5 million public and non-profit sector jobs, a senior Patrick budget aide signaled the governor’s support for “additional efforts” to secure funding from Washington to put...
Young voters fault Obama on many measures: poll
Source: Reuters
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Thu Dec 03 15:43:38 -0800 2009 | political-news
Fifty-eight percent of younger Americans approve of President Barack Obama's job performance but many feel differently about his handling of specific issues, a national poll has found. Harvard University's Institute of Politics said on Thursday at 52 percent of 18-...
Plan raises 'questions' for Boston vet
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Wed Dec 02 11:44:26 -0800 2009 | political-news
P resident Obama’s prime-time speech laying out the course for the war in Afghanistan left at least one local veteran of the nearly decade-long conflict convinced of the cause but questioning the plan. Ken Isaksen, 28, a Marine reservist from...
White House warming to jobs-related legislation
Source: Merced Sun-Star
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Wed Dec 02 13:43:14 -0800 2009 | political-news
On the eve of President Barack Obama's jobs forum, the White House is warming to a number of legislative proposals aimed at boosting job creation. Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in an interview...
What Obama SHOULD Have Said
Posted by: Write4Life
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Fri Dec 04 02:20:16 -0800 2009 | political-news
Dear Fellow Americans, I stand before you tonight to discuss my decision for our participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I apologize for what may appear to some, to have been an excessive delay, but the security of...
ReachD.C. council approves same-sex marriage
Source: United Press International
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Wed Dec 02 05:25:48 -0800 2009 | political-news
The City Council in Washington voted 11-2 Tuesday to allow gay couples to marry in the District of Columbia. The measure must pass several hurdles before it becomes law, The Washington Post said. They include a second council vote, approval...
Boston Cardinal's kin fight plan to move remains
Source: Boston Herald
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Tue Dec 01 03:17:12 -0800 2009 | political-news
Descendants of a former Boston Cardinal are fighting a plan to move his remains from land once owned by the Boston Archdiocese to a suburban school he founded. Twenty-two members of Cardinal William O’Connell’s family have signed a court filing...
Mass. priests can marry same-sex couples
Source: United Press International
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated Mon Nov 30 09:31:23 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts said he officially gave permission for priests to officiate weddings of same-sex couples in Eastern Massachusetts...Thomas Shaw III said his decision to allow priests in the Episcopal Church to marry same-sex couples in the eastern...
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