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<p>WASHINGTON - At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades.</p>

SALEM - A Salem man is facing charges that he threatened to shoot a local judge during a call to a radio talk show host last week. John Adelman, 53, allegedly called "The Scott Allen Miller Show" on WRKO on the morning of Sept. 19, telling the host he had just voted for a candidate who supports term limits for judges. He went on to claim he had been subjected to anti-Semitism from a judge and finally suggested that in the absence of term limits, "a gun could fix it." Miller, the host, quickly cut the call short, lambasting Adelman...

--The state Democratic party is tapping U.S. Sen. John Kerry's brother, Cameron Kerry, to co-chair a committee designed to help them win the one race that has eluded them for more than a decade: the governor's office Cameron Kerry, an attorney with the politically connected law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, will co-chair the Massachusetts Victory '06 Coordinated Campaign with attorney Katherine Clark, a former Democratic candidate for state Senate. Tracey Lewis, deputy director for John Kerry's leadership committee, Keeping America's Promise, has been named the committee's campaign manager. Cameron Kerry served as an adviser and confidant...