As a blog-style website we try to keep the navel-gazing to a minimum. Sometimes it's just unavoidable. Today MyDD posted their sit down interview with John Kerry as the latest installment in their series, Dome Nation. The junior Senator from our very own state and Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 2004 gave us a little shout-out. Well, shout out might be a bit much. But he definitely said "Bostonist". On purpose.......

Democrats seem to be coming out of the woodwork to announce their plans to be contenders in the 2008 presidential election. Senator John Kerry made a different step today and announced that he'll be seeking re-election to his senate seat rather than a shot at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It was a positive, politically crafted message. He's running for re-election, it wasn't an announcement that he would not be running for President. In his missive to......

The funny thing about Massachusetts politics, Bostonist has found, is that even when we are distracted by exciting stuff like the repatriation of accused murderers/internet smut-peddlers/would-be patrons of escort services, the internecine squabbles keep cooking along. So as you spend the long weekend in reverent remembrance of Presidents Washington and Lincoln, don't forget that today is also the 385th anniversary of the election of the first military captain of Plymouth Colony. With that in mind,......