Last night, I drove down to the Springfield City Library for the New England News Foundation second event in its library listening series. It was an interesting discussion about newspapers, blogs, journalism and the future of news. There weren't a whole lot of people there, but it was an interesting cross section, with college professors, civic ( Read more... )

On the way home from the New England News Forum conference in Lowell on Saturday, David Eisenthal and I were talking about Gov. Deval Patrick and the Corporate Tax Loopholes issue. Eisenthal makes a strong argument that Deval Patrick should push his chips on the table in a showdown with the Legislature on the Corporate Tax Loopholes. Eisenthal said ( Read more... )

There was a lot of information in yesterday's New England News Forum conference. One of the panels I enjoyed was the New England Commons panel, where a greater cooperation between the six states of New England was advocated. The New England Futures project that ran in 27 newspapers across New England was something that I paid attention to and in ( Read more... )

I'm sitting on the second floor of the Wannalancit Mills building in Lowell. It's about 4 p.m. and I'm about to catch a ride home from the New England News Forum conference with David Eisenthal, who is on the other side of the room posting to his blog while I type this. I've typed up three posts of notes from the sessions I've been to, but my mind ( Read more... )