The Hubster

we're at war (all the papers say) we will win (i read today) we are strong (it wasn't us) we are right (who started this?) l...

According to Charles C. Mann, the 1492 journey of Christopher Columbus to the New World and the movement of plants, animals, diseases and id...

The Massachusetts State Senate is scheduled to again take up the casino gambling bill today, and that body will likely pass a bill slightly ...

The weather was nice and the turnout was strong at this morning's ZUMIX Run to the Beat 5K in East Boston. Here are some photos from the...

Come experience the race hundreds raved about last year – the second annual ZUMIX Run to the Beat 5K. Once again, we’re running for ZUMI...

Oddly enough, I was in Carlisle, a town about 25 miles northwest of Boston, during the 9/11 terror attacks. I had taken a new job that year ...

East Boston will commemorate the victims of 9/11 at Piers Park on Sunday afternoon, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. According...

Cristoforo Colombo had heard about the powerful Caribbean storms that the Taino Indians called "huracan" on his early voyages, an...

The endless cornfields of southern Illinois. Something that I learned in the last ten days: Much of Illinois is populated by corn. So...

It was 10 years ago today that President George W. Bush was handed a morning security briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike i...

The tunnel named after the late Tip O'Neill is apparently leaking quite a bit these days, but the legacy of the former Massachusetts Co...

For weeks the word was that Wall Street was not panicking about Washington's inability to raise the debt ceiling because it was understo...

The city has announced that it will go ahead with the construction of East Boston's new library branch despite a failure to receive stat...

President Obama today announced his nomination to head-up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- and it isn't, unfortunately, ...

I had a nice time last night at the DeVeau Family and Friends Summer Beach Party at the Orient Heights Yacht Club. The annual event raised m...