Joseph Kennedy

The U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts is just getting started. Kevin O'Connor, the son of a journalist and school teacher, is the Republican nominee.

There was a time when the Fall River and New Bedford area felt like it was ignored by the political world. That time has passed.

Every Kennedy ad, poster, t-shirt, and bumper sticker should have included images and reminders of Great Uncles John and Ted and Grandfather Bobby.

It seems Massachusetts voters have closed the book on Camelot and have moved on in a different direction.

For decades, the Democratic Party lurched to the left while they stayed moored to the legacy of President John F. Kennedy and the rest of the Kennedy clan.

Call it a dance, call it a duel, it doesn't matter, because it is all over. Congressman Kennedy will be replacing Ed Markey as a senator from Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey knows he will lose to Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III in a state Democratic Party primary. Why lose when you can retire?

Project officials last week indicated the entire effort is at risk without a favorable federal response by the end of August.

At the end of the day, the person to blame in Fall River is you, the voter. Look in the mirror. The city is badly in need of a hero and better wisdom in the voter there.

So how come Congressman Kennedy is so interested in lining his pockets at the expense of those jobs that he is always "fighting" for?