http://www.billmanzi.com Political Blog of Methuen Mayor Bill Manzi and Guests Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:39:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lets travel outside of Methuen and take a look at the State Senate debate in the race to replace Democratic Senator Susan Tucker. Both Democrats and Republicans debated in the Tribune newsroom. I have posted both debates here. http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3237 Methuen Artist’s Work on Display in the Mayor’s Office Born and raised in Methuen, James grew up in a family filled with a respect for the arts. Various family members have displayed talents ranging from performing in Vaudeville to apprenticing with Bill Alexander. Once James had begun to show interest ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3235 The Governor's race, with Labor Day upon us, is beginning to really take off. Charlie Baker is up on the air with a new ad, and is in today's Herald complaining that a new Deval Patrick mail piece is a "personal attack". “When you don’t have anything to talk about ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3232 Tony Blair has just published his memoirs and is now making the rounds to publicize the book. He stopped in to Christine Amanpour's This Week show and talked about a whole bunch of interesting (to me) stuff. The New York Times gives a pretty tough review in this weeks book ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3230 Howie Carr has been beating up on Tim Cahill pretty good as of late, continually pointing out that Cahill's presence in the race could help Governor Deval Patrick. Howie has read the numbers, and he knows that Cahill splitting the right of center vote has enabled the Governor to continually ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3228 The Massachusetts Governor's race has begun to heat up and tighten, with a new Rasmussen survey showing Governor Deval Patrick leading by five points over Charlie Baker. The survey shows Patrick at 39%, Baker at 34%, and Tim Cahill at 18%. Those numbers reflect the last few surveys, which have ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3226 NEWS ALERT: Feast of Three Saints Announcement: Due to the impending heavy rain and high winds slated to hit the Greater Lawrence area on Friday, Sept 3rd from hurricane Earl the activities planned for the Opening Day of the Feast of the Three Saints celebration have been postponed to ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3222 The President talked to the nation last night about the "end to combat operations" in Iraq. And while conservatives talk about the evils of domestic spending, and rail about the deficits being incurred by the federal government, they seem to be supportive of continued spending in Iraq, including massive amounts ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3220 A great spot on "This Week", with education heavyweights with real policy differences talking about the Obama Administration efforts in this area. Superintendent Rhee in Washington has not been afraid to stir the pot vigorously. The Obama Administration has made some real enemies with the Teacher unions, and you can ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3218 Same old boring song and dance. Or is it? As everyone begins to fight and claw over a rapidly shrinking economic pie nobody wants to talk about the elephant in the room consuming everything in its path. And that is the public employee pension system. Every state is obviously different, ... http://www.billmanzi.com/?p=3216