Dick Batchelor, an Orlando business consultant, said his counsel reports that just might be the case. Not only does closing the schools breaks a promise the district made to voters in 2002, but it's likely illegal, as well. Batchelor was......

Christine Murphy watched a report last night on that State House bake sale/protest for the MBTA and she got mad - although not the way the organizers would hope. Murphy explains how she wants to ride the T, but can't, because the Orange Line is just too unreliable and that increases in the gas tax s...

UPDATE: Here is the original sales tax list. You can find the schools on the list for closure here. Batchelor was an architect of the 2002 campaign to raise the sales tax by a half-penny to renovate campuses. Many of......

Where Has the Orange Camp Gone? More important: What exactly is the "Orange Camp?" As a pragmatist, I need to fully define the term. Simply, I do understand it to mean those who opposed Disengagement. So, if that's the case, who were its leaders? And please don't forget that Disengagement did take p...

This might sound strange to some of our readers, but they made movies all the way back in 1980. For example, one of them was called Popeye. Another was called Oh, God! Book II. But, more importantly, a third one was called The Blues Brothers . The very first (very best) "Saturday Night Live spinoff ...

Two UK mobile operators are reportedly fuming at Nokia for including a mobile version of Skype on its N97 handset. Both Orange and O2 are so terrified that the popular VoIP service will siphon away profitable cell minutes by allowing users to make free calls that they are supposedly threatening not ...

Vijay Chattha is the man. When you’re talking public relations and strategic marketing in Silicon Valley, the amount of people who actually make things happen can be measured on the fingers of one hand. And in this context, *the* chap to know is Vijay of VSC PR Consulting. Very well known acro...

It’s science, so it has to be good, right? Hey, it’s either this, or me trying to justify eating that orange scone on Ash Wednesday. I mean, when your daughter wants it, and you pay $3 for it, that damn thing is going to get eaten, even if she only took three bites and then said [...]...

Orange has signed up to sell the Dick Tracey-inspired watch phone at a staggering 1000 GBP ($ 1425) per piece. The figure is not released yet but it is known that Orange agreed to the price for a cross-Europe exclusive on the device. This watch phone was unveiled at the Mobile World Congress by the ...

I was wondering if anything could top the Real Housewives of Atlanta's reunion show hosted by hunky Andy Cohen.  When NeNe pointed her finger in Kim's face and called her a "hookah" and ordered the wigged wonder to "keep your legs closed to married men"--- I had the...