Gonzalez Struggles To Catch Up | Kavanaugh Vote Could Happen Today

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 | [Today's Weather]( [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( [Struggling With Name Recognition, Jay Gonzalez Chases Charlie Baker]( With Election Day just weeks away, Jay Gonzalez struggles with visibility. [Judiciary Committee To Vote On Kavanaugh Friday, With Eyes On Undecided Jeff Flake]( Senate Republicans are moving forward with Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation, and plan to hold a committee vote Friday morning. A handful of undecided senators will decide Kavanaugh's fate. - ['Exactly Why I Nominated Him': Trump Gives Kavanaugh Positive Review After Hearing]( - [A Nation Is Riveted As Christine Blasey Ford Testifies]( - [Brett Kavanaugh Offers Fiery Defense In Hearing That Was A National Cultural Moment]( [Gov. Baker, On Kavanaugh: 'There Should Be No Vote In The Senate']( Baker says accusations of sexual misconduct brought against Brett Kavanaugh "are sickening and deserve an independent investigation." COGNOSCENTI [Women's Vulnerability, Men's Anger: How The Kavanaugh Hearings Symbolize Everything Still Keeping Us Apart]( The #MeToo movement has unleashed 12 months of raw honesty, shifting standards and occasional overreach. But the Kavanaugh spectacle has set us backwards, not forward. More From Cognoscenti - [Brett Kavanaugh's Contagious Rage]( - ['What Rings True? What Rings False?' To Republicans, It Doesn't Matter]( - [It's Been 37 Years Since My Rape. The Shame Still Haunts Me]( Local Headlines - [Former State Sen. Brian Joyce Dies]( - [Panel Asks AG Healey To Ensure Beth Israel-Lahey Merger Doesn't Hike Prices Or Hurt Care]( - [Lawrence Family That Lost Its House In Natural Gas Explosion Sues Utility]( [Fewer Massachusetts Students Suspended, But Disparities Persist]( A new report examining how students are disciplined in the state shows significant decreases over the last five years, but also indicates that black, Latino, and students with special needs still receive suspensions at disproportionately higher rates. THE ARTERY [30 Years Later, Boston-Spawned Pixies Still Won't Take Credit For Changing Guitar Rock]( Some mighty seeds were sown by a four-piece band out of Boston, which came to town from western Massachusetts. More from The ARTery - [8 Feminist Art Shows To Check Out In New England This Fall]( - ['I Am Not A Witch' Is A Blast Of Absurdist Outrage Over Hysterical Misogyny]( RADIO OPEN SOURCE [The Jill Lepore School of History]( "What's past is prologue," Shakespeare's phrase from "The Tempest," is carved in stone in front of the National Archive in Washington. Ronald Reagan liked to say that what it means about America is "you ain't seen nothing yet." For the historian, in the circus years of Donald Trump, it's a question, looking back: how much of the end-time strangeness of the Trump era comes out of the old American time machine? [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward this email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by wburtoday@wbur.org in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](