**UPDATE** Andrea Nuciforo responds to Olver’s Retirement While two out of three of the notes that we are about to bring to you are Senate related, it would not seme to do any justice to just lump them as an edition of Our One Hundredth.
(WMassP&I) CHICOPEE–At a handful of tables in the Knights of Columbus hall, Democrats in Western Massachusetts’ second largest city, scarfed down a breakfast of eggs, bacon and other staples and presented their own Democrat of the year award. Area political luminaries were present including the
Pikachu’s Pose/Taunt in SSBM (Youtube) There’s a bonus in the Gamecube video game Super Smash Bros. Melee (and its sequel) called Poser Poseur. You earn it if you push your taunt/pose button immediately after another player (or the computer) has just done the same. To
With the field more or less set, Democrats vying for their party’s nomination to challenge Scott Brown debated for the first time at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell this evening. The debate was moderated by UMASS-Lowell Chancellor and former representative Martin Meehan with questions from a student
Prof. Elizabeth Warren (Facebook) Western Mass Politics & Insight has learned from Talking Points Memo, the Huffington Post and David Bernstein at the Boston Phoenix that consumer advocate, Harvard Professor and Presidential Adviser Elizabeth Warren will announce her campaign for US Senate tomorrow in Boston.
Opponents of Vietnam War at the Pentagon (wikipedia) The answer to what the “establishment” is has never been clear, but use of the term “establishment” has escalated since it was used as a generic stand-in for the enemies of 60’s radicals. Today, in political spheres,
RMS Titanic (Wikipedia) Two things bookend year one of Scott Brown’s career as the junior Senator from Massachusetts so far. One, is an image of him sailing out from his front door ahead of a trip to Washington before his swearing-in a few days later.
Sen. Gillett (Wikipedia) The last Senator for Massachusetts from Western Mass (the four westernmost counties if you think Worcester is Western) was Frederick Gillett. Prior to serving one term in the US Senate, Gillett represented the 2nd Massachusetts Congressional district, the same that Richard Neal