The least experienced Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, former Obama administration advisor and Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, is quickly becoming the main challenger to Republican Senator Scott Brown, according to a UMass-Lowell/Boston Herald poll. The poll has Warren trailing Brown by a 41-38 margin just weeks after she announced her campaign.
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The days are getting longer now. [Boston Globe]
The "Annoying Dorm Resident of the Year" award goes to a freshman at Green Mountain College who is suing to change the bathrooms. [Burlington Free Press]
Football players are being encouraged to donate whatever's left of their brains to BU. [Washington Post]
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Menino has been less visible than Waldo since he injured his knee last month. [Boston Herald]
More than $1 billion per year is spent on the Commonwealth's correctional expenses, and it's rising. [Boston Globe]
The final Senate primary debate took place last night, so "undecideds" have 5 days to make up their minds. [Boston Herald]
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There have been no reports of Cyber Monday trampling incidents. [New York Times]
Scientists at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are working on technology to track firefighters in a burning building. [Boston Globe]
You can submit questions for Tuesday's debate for Democratic Senate candidates. [Boston Channel]
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Oysters not only taste great and tickle the libido; thousands are cleaning Boston Harbor. [Boston Herald]
Good news: The Bay State economy is looking up. Bad news: Unemployment will still suck. [Boston Globe]
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Logan's delayed flight ratings stink, but it's not as bad as New York's airports. [Boston Globe]
In a reversal of a recent trend, an octagenerian is struck by a car in Salem. [Boston Channel]
Harvard Square's rogue booksellers stick another thorn in City's side by pitching tents in a park. [Boston Globe]
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Setti Warren has ended his Martha Coakley-esque campaign for Senate. Bostonist almost forgot he was running. He was honest that he wasn't going to win, or, in his words, "I no longer believe I have a clear path to victory in this race."
There are other Democrats running for Senate in Massachusetts in addition to Elizabeth Warren despite her high profile entrance to the race against Senator Scott Brown.
Elizabeth Warren is running for Senate against Republican Scott Brown. She'll reportedly announce her rumored candidacy in a recorded statement on her website and will campaign around Massachusetts on Wednesday by stopping at a Boston MBTA station, and visiting New Bedford, Framingham, Worcester, and Springfield.
The rumored Senate campaign of Elizabeth Warren got a boost from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee in the form of $100,000 and 54,000 volunteers ready to work for her. if she takes on Senator Scott Brown. Warren is popular with liberals and the current crop of challengers have a seal in Chatham look.
Massachusetts' Senate tandem has been vocal on Egypt. John Kerry went first by saying Mubarak must go on Tuesday.
>Massachusetts' Senators parted wayswas defeated by a 51-47 party-line vote. The House voted to repeal it in January. A judge ruled it unconstitutional on Monday.
Fifty years to the day after President John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, his nephew, Ted Kennedy Jr., is rumored to be a candidate for Senate from Connecticut. Senator Joe Lieberman, 68, isn't running for a fifth term in 2012. Kennedy, 49, is an attorney and lives in Connecticut. Other canidates are planning to run already. Kennedy may have run regardless of what Lieberman decided.
The Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in Cambridge got a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to support the TechBridge Program and the Innovation Acceleration Partnership, both of which focus on commercializing clean technology. The Fraunhofer Center works with the New England Clean Energy Council, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the Association of Cleantech Incubators of New England. The Innovation Acceleration Partnership connects university researchers with entrepreneurs and funding resources to bring technology into the market. This might not help recoup some of the green jobs Massachusetts lost due to Senate inaction. We'll take it, though. [Boston Business Journal]
Senator Scott Brown is voting against confirming the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. Five Republicans are voting in favor of Kagan, who should be confirmed later today. Brown, a lawyer in the National Guard, said his no vote is based on her lack of experience as a judge which he says makes it hard to grasp how courtroom decisions "affect the day-to-day lives of American citizens..." Wearing a funny black robe and sitting behind a gigantic desk, like so many people do, makes you understand people better? Interesting. We realize Kagan was picked, in part, because a judicial track record just gives detractors a paper trail to pick apart. We think President Obama was trying to avoid a messy confirmation fight by picking her. Pick the fight sometimes. [WCVB]
Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill into law today at his State House office. Casinos? Yeah, right. Try the National Popular Vote bill that intends to award all 12 Massachusetts' electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in an attempt to avoid the Electoral College. You might remember George W. Bush's election in 2000. Well, this could prevent a repeat of that. It sounds good as long as your candidate of choice isn't hurt by the change. It reminds us of that Senate succession rules in Massachusetts are apparently written in pencil. Patrick reportedly has a lot of bills to sign.
A Senate bill that extended unemployment benefits, funded summer jobs and provided cash to balance state budgets is no more after a Republican-led filibuster couldn't be broken. Senator Scott Brown supported the fillibuster - he once voted against one - to prevent increasing the deficit.
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Now that health care is go, Scott Brown is bored. So bored that he's inventing fake threats to his fake future candidacy for senate!
Scott Brown's Senate career is going quite well about one month into it. He's helping another Senator keep his job, he knows where to eat, and he's very popular in Massachusetts. Now, he has a book deal. HarperCollins signed Brown to produce the unnamed book for a 2011 release. Jonathan Burnham, senior vice president and publisher of HarperCollins, said Brown's story is a "vitally important book" that will "inspire" people. Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” was published by HarperCollins. (Insert crayon joke here.) [New York Times]
Senator Scott Brown is officially a Senator after proposing his first legislation and making his debut speech on the Senate. Brown spoke about what seems to be his favorite topic on Thursday, a jobs bill that he helped keep alive by breaking a filibuster last month.
After weeks of erie politeness between the Kennedy clan and Senator Scott Brown, Representative Patrick Kennedy (D - RI) termed Brown's successful campaign to replace Senator Edward Kennedy "a joke" as he suggested Brown's expedited swearing-in was a political move designed to obstruct the Democrats' agenda. Brown responded by calling Kennedy's comments “mean-spirited” and said he simply wanted to "solve the problems" of citizens.
Continuing his everyman crusade against health insurance, Scott Brown asked today to be certified immediately to turn Massachusetts' second senate seat into the health insurance killer. Though he was originally scheduled to be sworn in February 11, Brown wants in on some crucial votes that will happen before then, and wants to be official by 11am tomorrow. Currently, Deval Patrick plans to review and certify the votes tomorrow morning, which should be on track with Brown's evil ambitious plan. [Globe]
While Scott Brown waits to assume the Senate position he won last Tuesday, his bid for world domination and the utter embarrassment of his children is continuing without delay. Here is the latest:
- Brown is going to appear on the Jay Leno Show - yes, his show is still on - to do the 10@10 segment in which the guest answers 10 cheesy questions to get cheap laughs. [The Hill]
- Our new Senator is also solely responsible for saving the American car industry. His ubiquitous truck, which became symbolic of his entire campaign, has allegedly spurred interest in pickup trucks. [US News & World Report]
- Brown even found the one college student in Louisiana not focused on the Saints to write a supportive column. Judging from what we read, Bostonist is certain it was written while watching the game. [LSU Daily Reveille]
Tired of being visually assaulted by skinny jeans, trucker hats, plastic sunglass frames, fanny packs (particularly dangerous.) And since Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown does not oppose waterboarding, held to be torture by many, we thought we'd try to represent Brown as an insufferably torturous hipster, scrunchies and all. Inspiration and images came from Look at This Fucking Hipster, Hipster Runoff, and—of course—American Apparel.
As Massachusetts prepares to vote in Tuesday's Senate Primaries, Attorney General Martha Coakley has the endorsement of former president Bill Clinton. Clinton taped a phone message - you can play it here - for Coakley that is scheduled to be released to voters on Monday. In part, the message says "Martha Coakley will go to Washington to fight every day to create good jobs with good benefits and to get health reform with a strong public option." It goes without saying Clinton's support is significant to the frontrunning Coakley. Oh, Republicans are running, too.
-- Alternative advice for bikers to not run red lights: only "slightly illegal." [Boston Biker]
-- Danvers High can't even handle reading "meep." They passed on an attorney's email to the police. [Theodora Michaels]
-- Statistically speaking, Coach Belichick wasn't that crazy. (And if they converted, everyone would call him a genius.) [Advanced NFL Stats]
On Sunday, WCVB's month-old On The Record (OTR) political talk show reported on the high-profile Mayoral and Senate elections facing voters in Boston and Massachusetts this fall.
City Year founder and former Americorps CEO Alan Khazei is running for Ted Kennedy's senate seat, and has been endorsed by Max Kennedy. Now, Khazei's asking you to pick his campaign video. We kinda like the "I rhyme with Jay-Z platform," but others may be more partial to this somewhat amazing take on the Cheers song.
Attention: Boston Globe. The crucial issues in the 2009 Senate election to replace Ted Kennedy do not include show tunes and men's clothing. Saturday's piece on Michael Capuano paints him as a Kennedy type of liberal. He says he is the financial underdog among the four Democratic candidates. Oh, he's also switching to long-sleeve shirts. The Globe's Andrea Estes said he looked "uncomfortable" in his suit. On Friday, Matt Viser reported that Martha Coakley referenced the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "I Enjoy Being A Girl" in an answer to a question about the role of gender in the campaign. After analyzing some of the lyrics, he concluded "Coakley seems unlikely to use it as a campaign theme song." Journalism!