Peter Lucas

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Peter Lucas

Forget the $2 billion. If Harvard University were serious about sticking it to President Donald Trump, they’d award Joe Biden an honorary degree at its next commencement ceremony. If not that, then at least it could get Biden into its Kennedy School of Government and honor him with the JFK Profile in Courage award. Joe Biden never had any problems with pouring money into Harvard or other Ivy League schools and deserves to be honored. It would show Trump what Harvard thinks of him.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Peter Lucas

“As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” was once a maxim in U.S. politics, meaning that it was at one time a bellwether for presidential elections. Now it risks becoming a backwater in the face of federal budget cuts imposed by President Donald Trump. And Massachusetts is not far behind. The Maine maxim could soon read, “As Maine goes, so goes Massachusetts” when it comes to similar, but larger, elimination or cutbacks in federal funding. Another thing in common is that both Gov.

1 week ago | bostonherald.com | Peter Lucas

They are either with him or against him. The “him” being President Donald Trump. So, any Republican running for governor in 2026, with any remote chance of victory in liberal Massachusetts, must choose to run with Trump or against him. There is no middle ground, not with Trump and not in Massachusetts. So that is the dilemma facing Mike Kennealy of Lexington, the first Republican to announce that he is running to unseat progressive Democrat Gov. Maura Healey in 2026.

2 weeks ago | bostonherald.com | Peter Lucas

Judging from the Hands Off demonstrations Saturday, one would think that President Trump had launched an unprecedented FBI raid on Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del. home, snatching classified documents and his classy 1967 Corvette Stingray. One American president seeking to jail another, like in a banana republic? No wonder the demonstrators were so enraged. It was a direct threat to democracy. Only it didn’t happen that way. It was President Joe Biden who launched the Aug.

2 weeks ago | bostonherald.com | Peter Lucas

It’s a shame that ICE agents scooped up a wanted illegal criminal immigrant before he returned to a Boston judge’s courtroom the other day. Otherwise, Boston Municipal Court Judge Mark Summerville could have let him escape out the back door of the courthouse to avoid waiting ICE agents the way it has been done before. Instead, the woke district court judge found ICE agent Brian Sullivan in contempt for interfering with the court proceedings and dismissed charges against the illegal immigrant.