Posts Tagged ‘ New York Times ’

Tuesday’s New York Times carried this front page story on the 2010 US Senate race in California and focused on the three Republican candidates and how they differ.  The stately Gray Lady, the nation’s newspaper of record, used this quote from State Rep Charles DeVore (yes, we call him Chuck). “This is eminently winnable for...
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There was a time when we paid for access to content on the Internet.  Remember the days of CompuServe, AOL and Prodigy?  The advent of the World Wide Web did away with these services focing AOL to move towards a free-model instead of a paid subscription. Today, the New York Times has announced that will...
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While the Register’s Orange Punch bloggers are always pretty quick to highlight any information that declares Global Warming to be a hoax or something based on flawed science, it’s always good to get information from other resources.  In this case, the Department of Defense courtesy of a page one story in yesterday’s New York...
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I paid a visit to Senate candidate Chuck DeVore’s site hoping for an update on his fundraising efforts.  There was a link to a recent New York Times article that I missed, so I clicked the link from Chuck’s web page.  It was excerpted; nothing wrong with that mind you.  Here’s what the story, from...
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Some of you know I moved here from Boston about 12 years ago and I’ve been following the situation at thge Boston Globe, New England’s largest paper, that faced a shutdown by the New York Times Company without major union concessions.  The unions caved last night and looks like editorial, advertising and office employees...
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I spent some time reading the local blogs and checking in with my Facebook friends and am noting some interesting comments in posts. Let’s start with our friends at Orange Punch, where Steve Greenhut has a post about how Conservatives will be spending considerable time in the wilderness.  No disagreement there.  But then Stephen wrote...
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For House Republicans, none of which supported the Stimulus Bill, the thought must be “none of us voted for it so none of us will take the blame when it fails.” Might I suggest a double-edge sword.  If the Stimulus Bill does reinvigorate the economy, then none of the House Republicans can take credit...
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