There is this: CEO Pay Shrank Most Since Financial Crisis And this: In New York, Super Amenities Are a Double-Edged Sword As a side note, I’ve been in love with this building, One57, ever since I first saw the schematics in the Wall Street Journal years ago… wow...

You don’t have to hate taxes and the services taxes pay for to realize that this is just completely screwed up. The annual GDP of the entire country is about $17 trillion and the federal budget is $4 trillion. This is crazy.

I finally got a chance to watch “Spectre” last night. I didn’t see it in the theatre because it was roundly – and soundly – panned. I disagree. Yes, it was long – 2:28 minutes. Yes, it meandered a bit. But I followed the plot easily and figured out the...

Oh Paul, such a silly boy, clearly that bike accident has really gone to your head … Send comedians to fight ISIS? When they cut off the heads of journalists, it’s just because they haven’t had a good laugh lately … What’s the saying, again? Oh, yeah, shut up and...

This week on the Taste the Floor show, I played some new stuff and then followed that with some old stuff, by the same artist. Also, a bit of Britpop at the end. The Taste the Floor show can be heard every Wednesday at 9 p.m. and Saturday 5 p.m. on WNHN 94.7 LP-FM in Concord at online, too....

Why I rarely go to concerts any longer … Jane’s Addiction, Dinosaur Jr. and Living Colour at “Harborlights” now some bank sponsored pavilion … $187 to $641 per ticket. I mean, I know musicians aren’t making as much money on CDs and downloads as they were...

As I’ve been saying for years that we still don’t know everything about the Sept. 11 attacks and until we do, the nation, as a whole, can’t really move on. We also can’t have a real strategy to prepare for the future, either. Check out this report from “60...

Yes, it has. New York presidential primary memories … We’re living the crazy 2016 mayhem … but 1992? Jerry Brown beats Bill Clinton in the Connecticut primary by 3 percent in a shock victory after Clinton got caught playing at an all-white golf course. Paul Tsongas jumped...

RIP, Barbara Anderson. I will never forget the help she gave us when we took on nearly every public and private interest to save Fenway Park from demolition. While we didn’t agree on everything, she was often complimentary of my work, posting a number of my investigatory pieces on their...

I love this idea! Planes Drop Seed Bombs! This and the construction of desalination plants all over the world, to bring fresh water and an oasis to the deserts, immediately, are the only ways to combat potential climate change issues and sea water elevations. Are the hypocritical movie stars...

On the eve of Super Second Tuesday, I have a lot of things going on in my mind, including all of the nonsense happening at many of the political rallies of late – specifically, leftist groups targeting Donald Trump and Trump supporters fighting back. Despite what anyone may think, this...

I was glad to finally see some serious questions and fewer of the gotcha questions, something that the Democrats have gotten from moderators for months and yet it often appears as if the moderators want the GOP side to be a circus (and know it will turn into one, too). It’s made for a...

Just so everyone is crystal clear: Neither Bernie Sanders nor Donald Trump are lying about NAFTA or GATT/WTO trade agreements. I co-founded and helped run a nonprofit for four years in Massachusetts – the New England Fair Trade Council, with Bob Baughman – and worked like others...

For sometime now, I’ve been collecting some thoughts about wealth and income inequality, the state of capitalism, and how workers and families start to move forward and increase their standard of living. I was prompted to write some of this after my friend Charlene posted a request from...

It happens to the best of us …

Trump says “Nah,” to CPAC 2016, after “Little Marco” complains about speaking slot time. Oh boy… Instead, the Trump campaign says, He’s going to barnstorm Kansas and then flying to Orlando to attend a rally of 20,000. In other words, he’s going for...

When will national political websites like Politico understand the Electoral College system? Articles like this one – “Donald Trump Needs 7 of 10 White Guys” on Politico this morning – are so infuriating. UPDATE: I didn’t realize when writing this that it was...

You know, thinking about the crude joke “Little Marco” made about The Donald’s hands earlier in the week, necessitating Trump’s comeback during tonight’s debate about his junk being fine and all, wouldn’t it have been hilarious if Kasich said, “Guys,...

On the eve of the Academy Awards, it’s important to note that the Academy members vote for the winners by ballot – it’s not, say, the people of Idaho or some “white power” group or something. While a lot of campaigning goes on behind the scenes – pick up a...

Note to Donald Trump: you can’t – and won’t – know every quote you re-Tweet; it’s impossible. However, social media is full of tricksters; and now they consider themselves journalists or vice versa … and you should know this by now. The fight for freedom...

At about this time in 2011, after purchasing home heating oil for $3.50 a gallon, the second highest price paid since 2003 when I moved back to New Hampshire, I did some analysis on my blog about usage and costs. I requested a complete purchase spreadsheet from our oil company –...

Mitch McConnell’s reaction to the death of Antonin Scalia, that any nomination should wait until the next president is elected, is just another glaring example of what is wrong with the Supreme Court nomination process. President Obama is required to make a nomination; it’s part...

Trump’s America: There’s nothing irrational about Donald Trump’s appeal to the white working class, writes Charles Murray: they have every reason to be angry. Photo posted on Patch courtesy of Jeffrey Hastings/Frame of Mind Photography. FrameofMindPhoto.com.

I thought for sure that the polls before New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary would tighten … but, they didn’t. Actually, they widened, and voters gave Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders decisive, massive victories, while voter turnout was the highest in the...

Predictions … Since I was completely wrong on Iowa, why not try again? First, the GOP: Trump by at least 10 percent. I think the polling is high but not that high. It’s been a 15 to 20 point lead for many, many months. I don’t see it collapsing even with so many people...

Well, well, well … What I saw in Iowa convinced me Hillary Clinton is the best qualified candidate to lead a broken, corrupt system

Thankfully… and, no, this is not all the mailers I received for the 2016 New Hampshire primary; it’s just some of them…

Karma, sometimes, is a bitch. Goodbye, The Boston Courant, or, The Back Bay Courant, when I worked for it in the late 1990s: Back Bay newspaper’s famous refusal to put up a Web site has driven it out of business I could write a very, VERY long blog post or maybe even a short book about...

Iowa is a maelstrom which is why a lot of folks advise presidential candidates to ignore it entirely and focus on trying to get wins in other states, like New Hampshire, to build the delegate count. Vote fraud and dirty tricks, of any kind, are always an unknown. However, I don’t know...

I wrote this on a Facebook thread this morning and figured it was worth a quick post. I’m going to be busy for the next few days but here are some thoughts about Iowa. Let’s see how I do tonight: Predictions: For the Dems: Sanders over Clinton by 8%-ish. I’m going to suspect...