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For hypersensitivity, Weymouth takes the cake

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:13:21 -0400

During my days as a stand-up comic, I faced some pretty tough crowds. In Nashville, I was escorted off stage by security to keep a bachelor party from beating me to a pulp....

John McCain's selling point better not be Mitt Romney

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:11:44 -0400

The latest buzz is that John McCain might pick Mitt Romney as his running mate because our ex-governor is some kind of genius on the economy - the nation's number one...

Love-sick press jilts McCain

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:24:15 -0400

Ever since MSNBC's Chris Matthews confessed that Barack Obama sent a "thrill" up his leg, we've known much of the media has been in the throes of Obama-mania. ...

Pity the Yankees

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:46:55 -0400

You might make light of the plight of Yankees fans bidding adieu to The House that Ruth Built ("Boo-hooing in the Bronx," July 17) but the loss of old Yankee Stadium...

Hugo's Moscow mission

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:28:46 -0400

Just when you thought the Cold War was really over . . . Well, leave it to Venezuela's irrepressible president and long-time U.S.-basher Hugh Chavez to resurrect the...

City cuts, reforms matter of survival

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:25:30 -0400

Sure, we're all fixated on the ever so photogenic firefighter, Albert Arroyo - poster boy for pension reform. But the big picture as outlined this week by the Boston...

Chapman nonsensical

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:59 -0400

Cornelius Chapman's column on privatizing the Boston Fire Department is absurd ("Alarmed over firehouse costs? Privatize," July 21). He compares Scottsdale,...

Dogged intelligence

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:13:51 -0400

I disagree with Eastham DPW boss Neil Andres who says, "Pets are for home." (July 17). My wife is a proud member of a Rhode Island search and rescue team that...

Judgment day for Eagan

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:12:41 -0400

I was not surprised by Margery Eagan's virulent attack on the Catholic Church ("Church errs in casting out women, but not predator priests," July 22). ...

Just use the T

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:08:42 -0400

It is perplexing to read that anyone would think it is a good idea to add more parking under Boston Common ("Some skeptical over Common garage plan," July 22). We...

Heed the warning

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:07:31 -0400

We are heading into a depression, not a recession, and unless radical action is taken soon we will long suffer (July 16). Where property is worth less than what is owed,...