The screw-ups just keep on coming for the Patrick administration.One day after the double whammy of stories that suggest the administration seems to favor the Patriots over the homeless we are treated to a Globe story that shows the one thing the state's ...

To the policy wonks out there, the Globe's stories about the Patrick administration's use of federal stimulus cash to build a footbridge at Gillette Stadium and plans to reduce funding for the homeless are unrelated -- separate caches of cash to be used f...

Now let me get this straight -- you didn't notice the big ship with the guns when you bought the condo?It seems neighbors of Old Ironsides are looking to change a 200-year-plus tradition of firing the warship's cannons twice daily.“The residential popul...

Now let me get this straight -- you didn't notice the big ship with the guns when you bought the condo?It seems neighbors of Old Ironsides are looking to change a 200-year-plus tradition of firing the warship's cannons twice daily.“The residential popul...

Now let me get this straight -- you didn't notice the big ship with the guns when you bought the condo?It seems neighbors of Old Ironsides are looking to change a 200-year-plus tradition of firing the warship's cannons twice daily.“The residential popul...

The tragedy at Fort Hood, with the death of 12 soldiers and the wounding of 31 others, would have been bad enough if the gunman was named John Smith.But I fear that a nation that should focus on what happens when men and women in a voluntary military forc...

Mayor for Life Tom Menino wants you to believe he is refreshed and energized as he stares at the start of his fifth term -- brimming with new idea to tackle the problems of education, public safety and city administration.Of course this same new vision su...

How'd you like to be on the Green Line this morning reading the Globe headline "Report Finds T's Riders at Risk." Actually it's a somewhat moot point: if you use the MBTA regularly, you already know that.What's interesting in the report by a special panel...

The great analyzers are offering tales of caution for Barack Obama this morning, with predictions that Republican victories against a wildly unpopular Democrat in New Jersey and by a conservative acolyte in Virginia may be early signs of a tsunami ready t...

Well at least the day wasn't a total loss for Steve Pagliuca. The Celtics cinched an important part of their future by signing Rajon Rondo to a multi-year deal.But if the Globe's Bob Ryan finds the 23-year-old Rondo "inscrutable" what to make of one of th...

Shh. If you're really quiet, you may actually hear the sound of the Republican Party coming apart at the seams.On the one hand, you have the effort by moderates trying to revive the virtually extinct New England branch of the party once so honorably repre...

Funny, it seems the GOP "values voters" seem to be talking a lot less about the subject these days.Could it be that this contrast -- a White House of Halloween trick-or-treating and an honest discussion of marriage compared to the tabloid trashing going ...

As we get ready to pull the curtain to unveil Boston Mayor Tom Menino's fifth term "vision," it seems high time to reflect what is and what's in store.The Globe offers a look today at mixed messages in crime prevention and education. Scot Lehigh treated u...

It took two reporters, a photographer and who know how many hours of dogged reporting for the New York Times to inform us -- on Page One -- that expensive bicycles get stolen in Paris.Thank goodness we are on the verge of a shield law that will enable rep...

Let's see now: the economy is showing signs of life and the House has unveiled a health care bill for debate. There's got to be something new the right can toss at the feet of Barack Obama.I got it -- his daughters got swine flu vaccinations even while O...

Let's see now: the economy is showing signs of life and the House has unveiled a health care bill for debate. There's got to be something new the right can toss at the feet of Barack Obama.I got it -- his daughters got swine flu vaccinations even while O...

Memo to Charlie Baker and Tim Cahill: Underestimate Deval Patrick at your own risk.Faced with the task of chopping another $600 million from the state budget, Patrick traveled to Worcester to spell out the details (such as they are), which were then conci...

Things are about as bad as they can get when you have to hold a press availability to talk about all the jobs that federal stimulus dollars have saved in Massachusetts -- right before you swing an ax to eliminate about 2,000 of them.And that's probably wh...

I love a good political fight as much as the next person. And I even get enmeshed in the procedural wrangling that is government. But I am studiously avoiding the ins and outs of the Capitol Hill wrangling that I still believe will lead to health care leg...

Victory is in the eye of the beholder in last night's debate among the four Democrats vying for the right to fill the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy. And a lot of that depends on the gender and style of that beholder.Attorney General Martha Coakley was t...