Archive for January 19th, 2010

Republican Scott Brown elected to US Senate

By Andrew Slade, News Editor – After several decades of representation of Massachusetts residents by two Democratic senators, Republican State Senator Scott Brown defeated Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley in an extraordinary upset from what was just weeks ago assumed to be a sure thing for the latter candidate. Over the last week, however, the

2010: Year of the Underdog

Brendan Benedict, Editor Opinion – 2009 was a red-letter year for bankers in the red. The thought was that some financial institutions were too big to fail, so it became necessary to prop them up. And so the year became one for the powerful, the top dogs, and the front-runners. Goldman Sachs and a handful