Boston Irish Reporter - Massachusetts

Climate Change in Scott Brown's Massachusetts

irishadmin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:15:44 +0000

Jim O'Sullivan

The Jan. 19 election to succeed Paul Kirk - and Ted Kennedy - in the United States Senate was supposed to be the tripwire. The vote that launched a thousand domino campaigns, Democrats vying against Democrats for seats long held safe by Democrats, and expected to be held by Democrats long into the foreseeable.

Instead, state Sen. Scott Brown's election over Attorney General Martha Coakley has sent the state's plurality party into an unaccustomed place: the wilderness contemplative. Read more

Is Anti-Evacuation Day Anti-Irish?

irishadmin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:28:54 +0000

Jim O'Sullivan

The terrain onto which the four major candidates for governor of the Commonwealth tread is one fundamentally different-looking than the turf onto which a former Justice Department official and corporate attorney named Deval Patrick trod in early 2005.

And it's not just the economy, the Obama-altered electorate, or the cultural uncertainty jolted into voters by the uncertainty of living in a post-Farrah, post-Jacko, post-Ed McMahon world.

It'll be the first election after the great Bunker Hill Day/Evacuation Day Imbroglio of 2009. Read more