Some say Spring officially arrives in New England with Red Sox Opening Day or Partiots Day.
I say it begins when “ice out” is declared on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. This is generally around the same time the Bruins are being tossed out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs!
I witnessed “ice out” in one of Winnipesaukee’s [...]
I remember as a kid always hearing about the “big” hurricanes that hit New England back in 1938 and 1954. There was no sophisticated forecasting and monitoring to prepare the citizenry. No matter those were monster storms that were both Category 3 when they hit land, making them the most powerful hurricanes to hit New [...]
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s out there! Wishing you a special day.
Since my birth there was one constant…Ted Kennedy was the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
He was challenged, lampooned, pilloried but he fought on for all of the citizens of my state for my whole lifetime.
Today a new day has dawned as Scott Brown was sworn in officially as the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. It took a [...]
An interesting article appeared in the Wall Street Journal today regarding the upcoming U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts.
The article starts out, “When Ted Kennedy died last August, Democrats said they’d honor him by finally passing the national health care he had long campaigned for. What an irony it would be if the race for Kennedy’s [...]
The U.S. Senate is the wing of the legislative branch where each state sends two of their best and brightest to represent their state and to debate the most important topics of the day. Every Senator must be able to debate vigorously on the floor to support their constituents, positions and legislative agenda. The Senate [...]
Quattro Wireless, the Waltham Mass-based wireless ad network, announced that has been acquired by Apple. Quattro CEO Andy Miller made the annoucement on the company blog today.
I have watched Andy build Quattro over the last few years. Wireless is booming and the Quattro team did a great job thus far building a network of publishers [...]
Wall Street Journal confirmed the acquisition of LaLa by Apple a few hours ago.
Hess has been marketing a toy truck, or on occasion toy car, in their gas stations for the holiday season since 1964. This has become a holiday tradition, and is one of the longest running toy brands on the market. This week they have announced the 2009 Hess toy truck and it is a race [...]
NameMedia’s network of niche web sites were in the #2 spot in the comScore’s Top Ten Gaining Sites for August 2009!
The NameMedia network includes many niche web sites that include: Photography.Com, Photo.Net, Gardens.Com, DavesGarden.Com, Tarot.Com, DailyHoroscope.Com, Geek.Com, Stampers.Com, Craftster.Org, RockClimbing.Com and many more.
NameMedia was second to the surging NFL sites for August atop the comScore growth [...]
