The Senator masters the art of playing it safe. Plus, Deval vs. the Legislature ... Senator Scott Brown is getting a lot of praise from the left and abuse from the right for crossing party lines to help pass a jobs bill earlier this week ... Senator Scott Brown is getting a lot of praise from the left and abuse from the right for crossing party lines to help pass a jobs bill earlier this week. The conservatives' acrimony is as predictable as it is irrational, and Brown deserves to suffer their
Barack's Best Buddy ... Speakers rarely get as warm a welcome as President Barack Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett received last Thursday at Harvard Kennedy School ... Speakers rarely get as warm a welcome as President Barack Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett received last Thursday at Harvard Kennedy School. But just weeks after Scott Brown assumed his US Senate seat — a victory that proved even the bluest of states could deliver a red-letter day to frustrated national conservatives
Kelly O'Connor / www.sittingstill.netA photo from last year's Futures at Fenway ... View full size photo » ... Futures at Fenway is back ... Tickets went on sale this morning for Futures at Fenway on July 10. The Red Sox will once again have two of their affiliates on the field for doubleheader action to showoff the future Sox ... This year the Lowell Spinners (Rookie) and the Salem Sox (A+) will get to take their whacks at the Monster. Lowell will play the Jamestown Jammers (Marlins
The not-so-pretty secrets of the pretty-flower business ... Saint Valentine, it is said, would pick the violets that grew outside his prison cell window. The third-century martyr would write little notes of love on the violets' leaves with ink that he made from the flowers' petals ... PETAL PUSHERS: Roses sold in Boston — like these in a cooler at Boston Wholesale Flowers — generally originate from South America, where they are painstakingly hand-cut by the millions ... Saint Valentine, it
Cincinnati's back on the sports-crime map. Plus, a Georgia alum fills in the blanks ... There hasn't been a whole lot to cheer about in New England Patriots country of late, and I'm not sure that this will fit the bill, but let's try it on for size ... ILLEGAL MOTION Linebacker Rey Maualuga was recently arrested for a DUI after slamming into two cars and a parking meter ... There hasn't been a whole lot to cheer about in New England Patriots country of late, and I'm not sure that this will fit
Madison Younginer, shown here pitching for Mauldin High School in South Carolina, was drafted in the 7th round of the 2009 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the Boston Red Sox ... View full size photo » ... Madison Younginer, a 19 year-old graduate of Mauldin High School (SC), was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the seventh round of the 2009 MLB First-Year Player Draft ... The 6'4" right-handed pitcher has been described as "raw," as is the case with most high school draftees, but not short