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  • December 29, 2006
    Blog of the Neighborhoods
    By David S. Bernstein
    Talk of the Neighborhoods, the weekly BNN talk show hosted by Joe Heisler, has launched a political blog: check it out.

    Heisler is one of Boston's true good guys, and his show is one of the few places to see local movers and shakers (and, on occasion, me) talk political shop. I'm sure the blog will be well worth reading.
  • December 29, 2006
    Performing for Patrick
    By David S. Bernstein
    Mitt Romney's inaugural party four years ago (from what I read) featured the Boston Pops, led by Keith Lockhardt, playing Olympics music and other patriotic standards, in addition to safe, white-bread dance music. The Celtic Clan played, as did an African drum troupe, so there was a little multi-culti thrown in.

    Deval Patrick's inaugural next Thursday will be, shall we say, a little more groovy.

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  • December 28, 2006
    Armstrong Williams' curious prediction
    By David S. Bernstein
    I hope you appreciate my dedication in perusing the conservative blogosphere for you. Today I can report that Mitt Romney has been in heavy rotation the last couple of days, as his newly-hired blogger-outreach man, former Bill Frist aide Stephen Smith, is hard at work prepping for the big campaign launch. Romney just did a Q&A with HumanEvents.

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  • December 27, 2006
    Mitt who?
    By David S. Bernstein
    NH Insider posted an online poll today of Republican Presidential Primary contenders. The 11 candidates listed do not include a certain Massachusetts governor. Oops! I'm sure that was just an oversight.
  • December 27, 2006
    Paging Jeff Jacoby...
    By David S. Bernstein
    This past Sunday, Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby -- cribbing from a May 2006 "report" of the right-wing-funded Media Research Center -- pooh-poohed global warming as just another media-driven climate scare.

    So, I wonder what Jacoby makes of today's front-page story in the Washington Post, which begins:
    The Bush administration has decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.

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  • December 27, 2006
    SJC Ruling Imminent
    By David S. Bernstein
    The Supreme Judicial Court will issue its ruling on the Doyle case at 10:00 this morning, I'm told. This is the one in which Mitt Romney is asking the court to force the legislature to vote on the marriage initiative.

    I'm no legal scholar, but I would be surprised if the court found that the plaintiffs have any recourse, regardless of the judges' interpretation of the statute.

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  • December 26, 2006
    Leftovers
    By David S. Bernstein
    Herewith, a few bits and pieces from the last few days.

    --A couple of different projections, using the new 2006 US Census numbers, both predict that Massachusetts will lose at least one congressional seat from reapportionment, which will take place after the official 2010 census. No surprise there.

    --Mitt Romney's distant-third-place showing in new Iowa and NH polls has been reported as bad news for him, but I have a different interpretation.

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  • December 22, 2006
    Details On Romney's Announcement
    By David S. Bernstein
    A "top advisor" to Mitt Romney outlines the Guv's Presidential-announcement plans for the AP's Glen Johnson today. (What, you thought he'd tell the Globe?)

    Here's the to-do list:

    Jan 2: File paperwork creating Presidential committee -- because yes, it really would kill him to wait two more days until his term ends.

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  • December 22, 2006
    Romney: "Heckuva Job, Bushie!"
    By David S. Bernstein
    There's one good thing for Mitt Romney about all the attention being paid to his 1994 "Summer of Gay Love" and other youthful ideological indiscretions. It's kept everybody from noticing this lead sentence in yesterday's AP story out of Iowa:

    "Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he supports the way President George W. Bush has carried out the war in Iraq."

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  • December 21, 2006
    Party of Joe does it again
    By David S. Bernstein
    Roll Call is reporting, in full:

    Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) has relinquished his position as co-chairman of the Senate Centrist Coalition, halting talks with co-chairwoman Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) over the future of the organization in favor of creating his own bipartisan group with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.

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  • December 21, 2006
    Romney Brings the Right
    By David S. Bernstein
    Mitt Romney has brought two members of the Christian Right onto his Presidential campaign team, according to Hotline On Call. The big name is Jay Sekulow, a converted Brooklyn Jew who was named one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by Time Magazine. Sekulow is chief counsel for the Pat Robertson-founded American Center for Law & Justice, where he handles cases about getting bibles into schools and anti-abortion protestors in front of clinics.

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  • December 21, 2006
    The Other GOP Chair Battle
    By David S. Bernstein
    The Massachusetts Republican Party is looking for a new chairman, to replace outgoing Friend of Mitt Darryl Crate. But of perhaps greater interest to Romney is the race for chair of the New Hampshire GOP, where Wayne Semprini is not running for re-election to the post for medical reasons.

    The state party chairman traditionally remains neutral in the Presidential primary, but can nevertheless be a powerful friend -- or enemy -- in many ways.

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  • December 20, 2006
    Feeney Challenges for Council President
    By David S. Bernstein
    Breaking news, as they say, just broken by the Dorchester Reporter. Maureen Feeney joins John Tobin, whose candidacy I broke in this story, and current Boston City Council president Mike Flaherty vying for the post.

    Maybe there's so much competition because of the killer view the council president's office is sure to have in the new waterfront City Hall.

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  • December 20, 2006
    "Less than fond memories"
    By David S. Bernstein
    The Denver Post is reporting that the Democrats will now postpone their decision on their 2008 national convention -- Denver vs. New York -- until after the new year. Denver's hopes have hit a big snag, not just because Hillary Clinton wants it in NYC, but because of the threat that the local Denver stagehands' union might strike.

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  • December 19, 2006
    A "High"-Tech Economy?
    By David S. Bernstein
    In recent days I've been looking at gloomy reports on the Massachusetts economic-growth and labor-supply outlook from MassInc. (link doesn't seem to be working), and from Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and thinking about the tough job the Patrick administration has ahead of it.

    Then, I see a report released today in the Bulletin of Cannabis Reform, in which Massachusetts ranks a lowly 44th among US states in total marijuana cultivation.

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