It seems that Bostonist's call for submissions inspired you. Say hello to Gerard Sloan, who is already working the political beat! And we hope you'll meet more writers in the next week. Interested in joining the team? Read our call for columnists and e-mail jobs@bostonist.com. Despite polls showing large leads for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary, the Granite State used its moment in the national spotlight yesterday to give Hillary Clinton a narrow victory......

Bostonist has long found that making fun of New Jersey is like shooting fish in a barrel, except better, because we don't like handling guns. So we can't help but mention the fact that the Garden State has abandoned its second slogan in as many years. The first slogan, "We Will Win You Over," was scrapped by the governor at the time because "it reminded him too much of when he was single and asked......

Bostonist can't really speak to the legitimacy or good repute of Morgan Quitno Press (although their name sounds a little too much like Quiznos for our taste). What we can say is that MQP is in the business of ranking cities and states (they're the folks who told us a while back that Newton was the safest city in the nation), and they have been kind to New England. Their latest state livability study just......