Mike Barnicle
Mike Barnicle is an American newspaper writer and has been a newspaper columnist for more than 30 years for The Boston Globe (1974–1998), the New York Daily News (1999–2005) and the Boston Herald (2004–present). He has also written for Esquire, George, ESPN Magazine, and most recently Newsweek.com and The Huffington Post.
Barnicle also provides commentary on MSNBC and is guest host of Morning Joe, where he has been under contract for the last 10 years, and frequently is seen on NBC’s Today Show with news/feature segments. He has been a regular contributor to the country’s longest-running, award-winning local television news magazine, “Chronicle” on WCVB-TV. Barnicle has also appeared on PBS’s NewsHour, CBS’s 60 Minutes, ESPN and HBO sports programming.
He has won local and national awards for both his print and broadcast work over the last three decades, including from the Associated Press, United Press International, National Headliners and duPont-Columbia University. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Colby College.
Soon afterward, the New York Daily News and the Boston Herald recruited Barnicle to write for them. Barnicle told reporters that he had nothing but “fond feelings for 25 years at the Globe.” Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy served as a regular commentator and guest host on Barnicle’s daily radio program on WTKK. Barnicle is currently on the radio three times a week with Barnicle’s View, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6:55am and 8:55am .
As of 2009, Barnicle has also become a regular guest on the MSNBC early morning program Morning Joe as a commentator. He also is a frequent guest host for Chris Matthews on Hardball.
Vicki Kennedy: The Woman Who Saved Ted
Vicki Kennedy was born in 1954 in Louisiana. Her parents, the Reggies — a judge and a Democratic National Committee member — were friends with the Kennedys going back to the 1956 convention, when they supported Jack for Vice President; in 1980, Vicki’s mother Doris was the only convention delegate from Louisiana to vote for Ted for President. Vicki had interned in Kennedy’s office in 1976, the summer she graduated with honors from Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. She and Ted had seen each other at social occasions with her parents over the years. When they started dating, he had been divorced for nearly a decade from his first wife, Joan, and she was the divorced mother of a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy.
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Ted Kennedy Dead at 77
Ted Kennedy – Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family’s political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, has died at age 77.
Known as the “liberal lion of the Senate,” Kennedy championed health care reform, working wages and equal rights in his storied career. In August, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — by President Obama. His daughter, Kara Kennedy, accepted the award on his behalf.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, known as Ted or Teddy, was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent a successful brain surgery soon after that. But his health continued to deteriorate, and Kennedy suffered a seizure while attending the luncheon following President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
