Author: MassCommons

With three different winners in the first three contests, the Republican presidential contest looks like it will be, well, contested, for a while longer. This means we’re likely–at a minimum–to have more of...

It’s been a rough week for Mitt Romney and his presidential campaign.  He has badly, and inexplicably, fumbled the questions about his tax returns and what might be in them.  He has seemed unprepared for attack...

At last night’s SC Republican presidential debate, CNN’s John King put the cherry on top of a triple-scoop-sundae-with-everything media feeding frenzy that completely missed the point of the real story. The real...

There’s nothing on his first three albums to suggest this would have happened, but Bruce Springsteen has ended up as the kind of musician who likes being on tour during an election year.  Judging from the first single...

Wisconsin is a mid-sized state with about 3.5 million voters.  Gov. Scott Walker took office just 54 weeks ago, and already 1 million of those voters–slightly more than half of whom actually voted in 2010–want...