5.9.2025
GOP moderates to the rescue | Pope Leo XIV: The local angle | Shell shocked businesses | Porzingis’s last hurrah? | Marty’s advice | Warren Buffett’s Massachusetts roots
Quick weekly note: I’m proud to say our local media has found a Massachusetts angle to the selection of the new pope, Leo XIV. It’s journalism at its finest. See first Hub Blog post below. Next up: Did Leo get rejected by a Boston area college before attending Villanova? The Boston media needs to get cracking on this. Unfortunately, New Yorkers think they’ve found a made-in-heaven Knicks-Pope Leo angle. God help us. Hub Blog this past week did find a non-papal Kristaps Porzingis angle. And it’s not made in heaven. See link below. I also managed to cover some political and business stories this past week on Hub Blog, including Donald Trump’s order to slash NPR/PBS funding and how moderate Republicans in DC may have saved the Massachusetts budget. And, finally, I had fun looking into legendary investor Warren Buffett’s early investment roots in Massachusetts – and how distant remnants of his old mill company, Berkshire Hathaway, still exist in Adams and parts of New Bedford. Enjoy. … J.F.
Recent Hub Blog posts:
— The Massachusetts budget: saved by moderate Republicans in DC
— Massachusetts businesses: shell shocked and feeling blue
— The Trump 10/90 Rule, as applied to NPR funding cuts
— Slot-machine basketball at its worst. … And is Porzingis’s time here over?
— Marty Walsh to Dems: Stop with the DC showboating. Get back to the district and talk to real people
— Transforming Post Office Square: From offices to housing?
— Warren Buffett’s incredible investment career: the Massachusetts roots
— New York-centric hyperbole: ‘The Night the NBA Playoffs Went Completely Bonkers’
— The president of Wesleyan gets it, the Globe and Harvard don’t
— Set aside surtax surplus money, please
— Connecting the State Police training and corruption dots, Part II