Hub Politics Farewell Address

Five years ago today we launched Hub Politics. We joined the fold with a handful of other conservative blogs that were blogging about national and local issues. It was a conscience decision to set us apart from the rest by focusing exclusively on the issue regarding Massachusetts. For five years we have done just that. We launched two additional blogs, Deval Patrick Watch, to keep tabs on our Governor, and Save WRKO, which has been keeping an eye on the local media. It’s been a long and amazing journey.

On this fifth anniversary of the launch of this blog, we are writing to announce the retirement of Hub Politics.

This decision was both expected and unexpected, and many factors led to this end. From the start, it has always just been the two of us (with some occasional guest bloggers). As we saw our own schedules making blogging less and less frequent, our attempts to garner new writing talent to fill the void were never fruitful. Our commitments to our careers, education, and personal lives have made blogging at Hub Politics increasingly difficult. In the past year and half, Aaron has obtained his Master’s Degree in Architecture, and is currently taking his Architectural Registration Exams. Matt has moved to New York, gotten married, and bought a house.

Over the years, we met many political figures serving the Commonwealth, and covered (and attended) many political events. We witnessed political disappointments as we lost the corner office in 2006, and watched in dismay as the imbalance of Beacon Hill was exacerbated. This year, we had the great fortune to be at the epicenter of a Republican victory that astonished the nation. Still forthcoming, we have high hopes that the Republican Party will take back the Corner Office, and continue the trend of Republican victories in this state, and nationwide. While we originally expected to be actively blogging for this upcoming election, the unfortunate reality is we will not be taking part in blogging this year’s election.

We have had the pleasure of meeting many bloggers, politicians, candidates, enthusiasts, activists and media personalities over the years that will now call friends and we are grateful for having met them, but this is not goodbye. We will no longer be blogging here, but we are not gone.

We are grateful for the opportunities that came to us as a result of our efforts with Hub Politics. We have contributed our views as invited guests on local talk radio like WRKO 680 AM and 969 FM Talk, and local news show like Fox25 and CBS4. We’ve been profiled by the Boston Globe and been regularly quoted by the Boston Herald. There are even a few stories broken on Hub Politics. With all the competition, it is extremely rewarding to be one of those blogs that gets to make a difference.

Making this decision easier is knowing that there will still be a strong presence of conservative blogs in Massachusetts that wasn’t really here five years ago. To all of them we wish the best of luck and hope that they will be a force for continued prosperity of the conservative movement in the Commonwealth.

In closing, we would like to thank all the readers of Hub Politics who made this venture worthwhile. It was our pleasure to serve you.

Happy Fourth of July
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More information about the future of the hubpolitics.com domain will be posted at a later date.

Hub Politics was created by Matt Margolis and Aaron Margolis on July 4, 2005.