Listed below are some observations that caught my consideration in 2025.
Why is Joanna Lydgate, Gov Maura Healey’s single dwell in companion, known as the First Woman?
If the following governor is a homosexual man, will his boyfriend be known as the First Man, First Gentleman, First Man or First Dude?
If you’d like a brand new state seal and flag, it ought to be one which replaces the Native American and his bow and arrow with a girls holding a can of mace.
We’re dominated by girls—Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Gov. Maura Healey, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, Lawyer Basic Andrea Campbell, state Treasurer Deborah Goldberg, and state Auditor Diana DiZglio.
There’s additionally Senate President Karen Spilka, U.S. Lawyer Leah Foley and Kimberly Budd, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court docket.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts could possibly be referred to as the Motherland of Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Miracle has been changed by the Massachusetts Matriarchy.
If the MBTA turnaround is so successful, why are so many buses empty?
I don’t know the distinction between a burrito and a taco.
If motorbike riders are such rugged individualists, why do they experience in packs?
And don’t get me began on these big, street hogging pickup vehicles that don’t decide up something. Even their four-door crew cabins are empty, save the motive force.
Elizabeth Warren ought to burn all her garments.
Maura Healey will not be a lot of a fashionista both.
Melania makes each appear like bag women.
Maura Healey is significantly better at letting killers out of jail than he’s placing them in. Her Parole Board launched 39 of them. Carry again Baker?
Will Eddie Markey transfer again to Massachusetts if he loses?
Doesn’t it seem that Seth Moulton, working towards Markey, goes towards a befuddled previous uncle?
And why does Moulton all the time appear like someone simply stole his automotive?
I’ve, like Moulton, been in fight. The place? Within the car parking zone at Market Basket.
Will Hunter Biden ever go away?
Australia has strict gun management. A shooter can legally solely personal six weapons.
Did you discover how activist Rhode Island Lawyer Basic Peter Neronha took management of the investigation and press briefing following the lethal capturing at Brown College?
Did you additionally discover how Massachusetts Lawyer Basic Andrea Campbell, the state’s “chief regulation enforcement officer,” was MIA?
She was nowhere to be discovered through the investigation or press briefing on the killing of MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro of Brookline by the identical shooter.
That Loureiro briefing was performed by U.S Lawyer Leah Foley. Possibly she ought to be legal professional normal.
Maybe Campbell was too busy suing Donald Trump. She has solely sued Trump 45 instances in comparison with the 100 instances Healey sued Trump when she was legal professional normal.
No marvel there aren’t any federal funds to exchange the 2 functionally out of date Cape Cod bridges.
If Mayor Michelle Wu took on Boston site visitors the best way she “takes on” Trump, issues can be swell.
We’d like a listing of professors, politicians, pundits and folks not talked about within the Epstein recordsdata.
No member of the Massachusetts Legislature was arrested over the lengthy weekend. No reporters both.
The true purpose Trump hates Venezuelan dictator Nicola Maduro is that Maduro has extra hair than he does. No weaves or comb overs for this man.
Political dialogue descended to a brand new low in 2025. In 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton known as conservative Trump supporters “deplorables.”
In 2025, Trump known as leftist Democrats and Kamala Harris supporters “scum.”
Nonetheless, if Trump can halt combating between Thailand and Cambodia, not to mention Armenia and Azerbaijan, perhaps he can do the identical right here in 2026.
Aren’t all of us People? Yeah, however don’t rely on it.
Veteran political reporter Peter Lucas will be reached at: peter.lucas@bostonherald.com
