Let’s cut to the crux. Ryan concludes that MA legislators are at a defining moment. They can build up the commonwealth’s transportation and education — as Gov. Patrick proposes — or they can screw around with watery variations that do not address big issues. If they do the latter, they will be so out of […]

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We did pretty well as a commonwealth in all senses of that. Here at LA, we discussed the big snow and what it meant and will means.
We got into the few deaths, the controversy of shutting down the roads, Boston’s laggard side-street work, and more. We reveled in our Governor’s call to put the power […]

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We’d figured on double speculation — interim appointment to very recently ex-Sen. John Kerry and the winner of the special election for his last two years. Our Gov. Deval Patrick beat us out by naming the interim (William “Mo” Cowan) a few hours before the show.
We stuck to who’s likely to run on Dem […]

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