In 1962, Ted Kennedy sought to fill the Massachusetts Senate once held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He was opposed in the primary by Edward McCormack, an experienced, well-liked veteran of Massachusetts politics. In a debate that...
DEVELOPMENT: New York must reform IDA's
Mary Anna Towler nails it in her December 24 Urban Journal ("Our COMIDA Is in a Gift-giving Mood"). The Wilmot family has a lot of gall to expect us to believe that they wouldn't do the Greece Ridge Mall project without us handing them $192,000...
POLITICS: Pay up for the Bush years
With the start of a new year and a new presidency, it is time for us to put our differences behind us and come together as one nation. To help foster that end, I propose that those of us who voted for Bush-Cheney in 2000 take some responsibility...
OBAMA: The Warren choice was a cheap shot
President-elect Obama's invitation to the Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a cheap shot to most fair-minded Americans. The loss in California over the passage of Proposition 8, which stripped loving,...
RESTAURANTS: About those calamari tentacles...
As a fellow seafood afficianado, I enjoyed Tricia Seymour's review of calamari offerings around town almost as much as I do sampling a basket of "melt-in-your-mouth squid" ("The Calamari Crawl," December 17). Her appraisal of the dish offered...
RESTAURANTS: The calamari City missed
While you were out sampling all those deep-fried varieties of calamari ("The Calamari Crawl," December 17), you neglected to taste the very best calamari in town, which is grilled, not fried. Mario's Italian Steakhouse serves a...
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Beth said:
AMEN!
in POLITICS: Pay up for the Bush years
MIddle Relief said:
Gov't - at all levels, local, state, federal - has been a poor steward of our money. Until they get better, they shouldn't get anymore. The...
in DEVELOPMENT: New York must reform IDA's
Middle Relief said:
Where is Mr Miller goes wrong is is his slipping the word "political" before experience. The opposition to Caroline Kennedy is her lack of...
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Middle Relief said:
In regards to Mr. Lapinski's adjectives of: incompetence, corruption, ignorance, cronyism, and lies . . It sounds like he is referring to the...
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Louis Richards said:
In fact, nothing rings more hollow than the empty rhetoric of extremists; whether on the Right or the Left. President-Elect Obama has offered...
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