LIKE MANY OF the Democratic presidential candidates, I believe access to necessary health care is a basic human right, like housing, food and social services. More needs to be done to ensure such basic necessities are available and affordable to everyone, and it starts by controlling the continuing rise in public and private expenditures on […]
John Kerry
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Markey and Kennedy should agree to spending cap
AS REP. JOE KENNEDY III challenges incumbent US Sen. Ed Markey, Democrats cannot afford to lose sight of the bigger picture. There is little risk of the party losing Markey’s seat in the general election, but a fundraising free-for-all in the primary could divert funds from close contests elsewhere and reduce its chances of retaking […]
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Kerry: Republicans shouldn’t rush to president’s defense
JOHN KERRY ISN’T just another Democrat inveighing against President Trump’s suspected crimes. While his political leanings are clear, Kerry also has unique experience in the diplomatic arena in which Trump appears to have transgressed as well as the legislative body that might ultimately determine his fate. During his tenure as secretary of state from 2013-2017, […]
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Warren in the cross-hairs — where she wants to be
FIRST HOWARD SCHULTZ called her tax-the-rich plan “ridiculous” in an NPR interview Tuesday morning. Michael Bloomberg piled on later in the day in New Hampshire, saying it would set the country on the road toward the chaos of Venezuela. For Elizabeth Warren, who famously claimed to have laid the intellectual foundation for the Occupy Wall […]
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The steady hand
AS SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN made her way down the rope-line on election night, a familiar figure was close by her side. Roger Lau had managed Warren’s lopsided victory over a Republican state rep and now he was managing her exit from a clutch of reporters. It was Lau in his element, staffing the candidate, keeping […]
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Piling on
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story. That seems to the operative approach to the fact that Boston resident John Kerry got a $50 ticket for an unshoveled sidewalk alongside his Beacon Hill townhouse. To say the story was irresistible catnip to the crew at the Boston Herald would not […]