Tony is a Senior Field Editor, NH/RI, for Patch Media. He is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster with more than three decades of media experience in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and has won more than 40 local journalism awards in online, print, and radio formats

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To think, our federal government has been spending $1 trillion a year for our defense and spying security state and …

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I have to admit that I haven’t read much of Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight although I know a lot of …

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Here’s this week’s playlist: The Jesus & Mary Chain: Taste the Floor Louise Burns: Downtown Lights Rose Elinor Dougall: Stellular …

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Here’s this week’s playlist. Pixies: Tony’s Theme Hoodoo Gurus: I Want You Back Cheap Trick: I Want You To Want …

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So, I’ve been thinking about the so-called “Constitutional crisis” of White House flack Sean Spicer holding a private gaggle for some …

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President Donald Trump announced on Twitter today that he would be blowing off the White House Correspondents Dinner … I …

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I was watching “Rocky” streaming on AMC in the background while doing work today and was really puzzled — and …

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And I’ll be watching “The Walking Dead” and not the Oscars.

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A lot of discussion is being had about a number of voter registration bills before the Statehouse looking to address the …

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Talkers Magazine has just announced that liberal radio talk show host and FoxNews contributor Alan Colmes has passed away. I …

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The Taste the Floor Show can be heard at 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and 5 p.m. on Saturdays on WNHN-LP …

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The Taste the Floor Show can be heard at 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and 5 p.m. on Saturdays on WNHN-LP …

Riveting Piece: ‘Finding Lisa’

This is a riveting piece in the Boston Globe about the Bob Evans/Denise Beaudin/Bear Brook murders case … I am puzzled as to why investigators haven’t submitted his DNA to the same databases that were used to connect Lisa to her family members. This would seem like a no-brainer, especially since they don’t know who … Read more

K Songs, New Stuff, too: TTF

The Ting Tings: Keep Your Head The Gun Club: Keys to the Kingdom Paul Westerberg: Kickin’ the Stall Paul Westerberg: Knock It Right Out Steely Dan: Kid Charlemagne The Who: The Kids Are Alright Catherine Wheel: Kill Rhythm INXS: Kill the Pain Tashaki Miyaki: Girls on T.V. Karen Elson: Why Am I Waiting Surreal Estate: … Read more

J Songs, K Songs, New Stuff: TTF

Here’s what I played this week on the Taste the Floor Show: Tashaki Miyaki: City Lily Frost: Rebound B(itch) Emma Elisabeth: Kiss of Gasoline Benjamin Longmire: Hurricane Girl The Manta Rays: Happy Now Karen Elson: Double Roses The Rolling Stones: Just My Imagination The Knack: Just Wait and See The Cars: Just What I Needed … Read more

The Last of the ‘J’ Tunes?: TTF

Almost, just a few more to go … here’s what I played tonight: Liz Phair: Johnny Sunshine Tribe: Joyride (I Saw the Film) Pulp: Joyriders Blur: Jubilee Catherine Wheel: Judy Staring at the Sun Van Halen: Jump David Bowie: Jump They Say Bruce Springsteen: Jungleland Wings: Junior’s Farm Blondie: Just Go Away Cheap Trick: Just … Read more

‘J’ Tunes on the iTunes: TTF

This week on the Taste the Floor, I ventured into the letter “J” on my computer’s iTunes player. Here are the songs that the player says I heard most. I expect that J will be shorter than I was. LOL Here’s what I played this week on the show. Aerosmith: Jaded The Black Crowes: Jealous … Read more

A Few Quick WSJ Reads …

The taxpayer’s receipt … “a giant insurance company with an army” … with billions — about $259+ billion, to be exact — wasted on interest payments lining the pockets of the rich and foreign governments because the federal government is too big, too expensive, and involved in too many things: “How $100 of Your Taxes Are … Read more

Parlor Walls, Bleached, Nadia Reid, I Songs, and More: TTF

Zoe Durrant: Baloon Parlor Walls: Hesitation Nadia Reid: The Arrow and The Aim Bleached: Turn to Rage Molly Burch: Fool Hedge Fund: Hot & Lonely Emma Lachevre: Moving On Louise Burns: Who’s The Madman The Psychedelic Furs: Into You Like a Train The Psychedelic Furs: It Goes On Echo & the Bunnymen: It Was a … Read more

TTF: A Show to Celebrate Friendship

On this week’s Taste the Floor Show, I put together a dedication to my three-plus decade friendship with Donna Greenleaf Grzywacz, who has been stricken with ALS. Here’s what I played. Listen to the full show here. DEVO: Beautiful World DEVO: Gates of Steel The Psychedelic Furs: The Ghost in You The Psychedelic Furs: Heaven … Read more

Q: Where Have You Been?

Great column by Robert Redford here … “45 years after Watergate, the truth is again in danger” … the only problem with it is the fact the public has been kept from “the truth” for nearly the entire time since Watergate. Redford — and others — not realizing this is what is most frightening about … Read more

The Box I Never Go Through …

Today, while delaying going out and cleaning up from the snowstorm, I ventured into “the box I never go through” … photos, memorabilia, postcards, other things … it is just too emotional … However, I needed some things in there for a special project so, I had to open it up … Here are some … Read more