Joan Vennochi
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RECENT COLUMNS
Who comes first in the state?
The $70 million the governor wants to restore for insurance coverage is a
tiny piece of a $28 billion state budget. But if I were being asked to do
it, I would first consider the big picture. (Globe Columnist, 7/11/09)
The challenges for challenger Charlie Baker
He is a virtual unknown to the general public and untested for political office. (Boston Globe, 7/8/09)
Is Palin confusing celebrity with stature?
Who’s crazier? Sarah Palin for thinking she could be president or John McCain, for allowing her to think so, by choosing her as his runningmate? (Globe Columnist, 7/7/09)
The Patrick approach to politics
Governor Deval Patrick hired Barack Obama's campaign manager to help run his 2010 reelection bid. But Patrick is no Obama, as their mutual strategist, David Plouffe, must understand. (Boston Globe, 7/1/09)
The forbidding arithmetic of healthcare reform
Massachusetts doesn't have enough money to pay for the coverage envisioned by the healthcare law. This outcome is not surprising, but it is instructive as President Obama pushes for a national plan. (Globe Columnist, 6/27/09)
DiMasi and the Italians
When news of Salvatore F. DiMasi's indictment broke recently, a friend sent this e-mail: "Bad day for the Italians." This friend is Italian-American, and it was his immediate reaction to the criminal charges filed against the first Italian-American speaker of the House of Representatives. (Boston Globe, 6/24/09)
Friends helping friends
Sal DiMasi is gone, but has anything changed on Beacon Hill? Is there really a new attitude? An ethics reform bill is still in the works. But it takes more than new law to change old culture. (Globe Columnist, 6/20/09)
Scared off by union picket signs
Last weekend, labor had its usual way with a Democratic president who promised change. (Boston Globe, 6/17/09)
The dark mystery of a missing boy
The whole world knows the story of a delusional man who called himself Clark Rockefeller and kidnapped his daughter from a high-end Boston neighborhood. Someone, somewhere in the world, must know what happened to Giovanni Gonzalez, a 5-year-old boy who was last seen with his father last August in Lynn. (Globe Columnist, 6/13/09)
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