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  • February 25, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    BU's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center has put together an impressive panel this evening for a discussion of media and politics -- and invited me too. John Carroll, who you probably know from WGBH's Greater Boston, is moderating, and the panel includes Newsweek's Jonathan Alter; NPR's Tom Ashbrook; Renee Loth of the Globe; Ida E.

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  • February 22, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    On tonight’s “Beat the Press” edition of Greater Boston (7:00pm, Ch. 2), one segment will look at the Inspector General’s report on allegations regarding a contract for international tourism marketing, raised by an article I wrote a year ago. [Update: It turns out the segment will not air after all.]

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  • February 21, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    A couple of commenters rightly pointed out that I failed to provide the url for the IG's report that I referenced earlier. My error: I did not have the url when I wrote the post, and forgot to go back and add it later.

    I would also encourage those interested in the topic to read Jay Fitzgerald's series of articles on Tourism Massachusetts, some 10 or 12 of which ran in the Boston Herald between December 2006 and February 2007, when the IG's investigation began.

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  • February 20, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    Sorry for the light blogging lately. Here are a few quick looks at what's been going on.

    --Barack Obama got caught using some of Deval Patrick's rhetoric. No surprise to anyone who reads my colleague Adam Reilly. I've got no problem with it, except that like Adam suggests, you would think Obama would try to avoid obvious incidents like this latest one.

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  • February 15, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    For anyone interested, my brief response can be found here.

  • February 15, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    In today's Globe, Stephanie Ebbert looks at the stealth efforts of Michael Flaherty, Ralph Martin, and John Tobin in preparation for a potential run for mayor next year. Those three, in that order, held my top spots on my list of 20 top contenders for the office in this article back in November.

    Ebbert mentions several others -- all from my list -- as "among those considered mayoral material."

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  • February 11, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    To nobody's surprise, state rep Jamie Eldridge is running for the state senate seat of Pam Resor, who has announced that she is not running for re-election this year. Eldridge, a liberal who ran a somewhat quixotic campaign for US Congress last year, should be a strong force in this race. His campaign put out a release this morning confirming that Eldridge will run.

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  • February 08, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    Pornography contributes to out-of-wedlock pregnancy, particularly among racial minorities. Liberals pursue a relentless attack on religion, culture, and the Constitution. Entitlement programs are a poison destroying the culture upon which rest our economic development and superpower status. Abortion and Godlessness is turning Europe into a Muslim-dominated "disaster."

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  • February 07, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    Mitt Romney could have fought on, trying to deny John McCain a majority going into the convention and then convincing Mike Huckabee's delegates to go with him because McCain hates God. But perhaps he's learned an important lesson about the Republican Party: they always nominate someone who has proven his loyalty to the party.

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  • February 06, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    This week's issue of the Boston Phoenix finds me wearing my investigative-reporter hat, writing about the wrongful conviction of Stephan Cowans. It is online now:

    Framed?

    The Boston Police investigation of Stephan Cowans led to a wrongful conviction. Was it incompetent — or corrupt?

  • February 06, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    Tom Menino put himself out with gusto behind Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't look like he's going to deliver the city for her -- with 58% of the city reporting, Obama has a 51%/46% lead. Still worth watching, since the parts of the city reporting or not could make a big difference....



  • February 06, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    ...shows Clinton and Obama in a dead heat, for what it's worth. If so, WBZ's pollsters, SurveyUSA, will have some 'splainin' to do for that side of things, where they had Clinton in a rout.

    Looks like they had it right on the GOP side, though, where Romney is cruising to victory.

    Update: Well, who looks smart and who looks stupid now? (That's a rhetorical question, no need to comment.



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  • February 05, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    A statewide California poll conducted by EMC Research this past weekend shows big changes heading into today's critical biggest-of-the-big primary.

    Mitt Romney has overtaken John McCain, leading 36% to 32% among likely Republican voters. Huckabee trails with just 11%.

    A win in California -- where GOP delegates are doled out on a district-by-district basis -- could rejuvenate Romney's sagging hopes for the nomination, by offsetting McCain's expected victories in winner-take-all states like New York.



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  • February 04, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein
    Sorry for the light blogging in these action-filled days. I'll try to make up for it tomorrow. Meanwhile, some quick thoughts and observations:

    --Obama is closing fast everywhere, and it's now possible to think that he could win not only Massachusetts but Connecticut, New Jersey, and/or California tomorrow. Even if he loses them all, he should do well enough to not get pounded in the delegate count.

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  • February 01, 2008
    By David S. Bernstein

    Mitt Romney's year-end campaign-finance report is in -- with two and a half hours to spare! -- and shows that he had contributed $35.3 million of his own dough as of Dec. 31, with almost all of it spent, along with the $54m in contributions he received over the course of the year. (He had just $2.4m left on hand.)

    $35 million before the caucuses and primaries started.

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