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Archives for April 25, 2008

Friday Joke Revue

April 25, 2008 By Bob Neer

From the local Bay State Bombast, part of the Political Shorts feature written by alert BMG reader (and Leno writer) Ben Alper for the OnlineOffbeat.com site: Three things to watch for in tomorrow's Boston Marathon ...    • When … [Read more...]

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Boston Globe losing its star health care reporter

April 25, 2008 By David

This is a huge loss to the Globe, and to all MA residents interested in health care reform: reporter Alice Dembner reportedly has taken a buy-out and will leave the paper in early May. And the incredible shrinking Globe continues its march … [Read more...]

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Foreclosure Geography

April 25, 2008 By andrew_j

Anyway, back to the maps, here's a heat map of Boston neighborhoods by income (Red means high income, blue means low): OK, so what do you think the foreclosure heat map looks like?  If you said nearly the opposite, you're … [Read more...]

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Here Comes the Bribe

April 25, 2008 By farnkoff

Well, here's what we've all been waiting for. Enjoy, everyone. Let's hope our kids can fix the mess that our great and glorious benefactor got us into. … [Read more...]

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Clean Energy for the Commonwealth by Governor Deval Patrick

April 25, 2008 By bowes3

Name   Websites A123 Systems   Find out more Borrego Solar   Find out more Cape Wind   Find out more … [Read more...]

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Our Official National (& state) Day of Religious Supremacism

April 25, 2008 By frederick-clarkson

The Interfaith Alliance, Jews on First!, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, (and probably others) are calling them out on this discriminatory, Christian nationalist vanity project that comes with the Congressionally … [Read more...]

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Inside Track *%#@s Commit Journalistic Crime

April 25, 2008 By eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii

The two %$#@s that write that trash gossip column for the Herald went off on a Globe writer today  for apparently appearing intoxicated at a Fox Network dinner event.  This same writer, the #%&*s reported, also wrote negative … [Read more...]

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Still a closed door to the people’s House

April 25, 2008 By Charley on the MTA

Matt Viser's got a must-read story in today's Globe about how that $200 million tax giveaway (oh no, I don't dare call it a loophole) got put into the close-the-loopholes bill in the House.Community activist Carl Nilsson … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bosley, dimasi, globe, house, massachusetts, massachusetts-house, taxes, viser

Don’t Call It a Come Back..She’s Been There For Years…Or Why Its All About the Ladies

April 25, 2008 By lanugo

Post-Pennsylvania, everyone is trying to decipher the meaning of Clinton's not-really 10 percentage point victory there (or have just gotten tired of it all).  Many have concluded it doesn't mean anything since the outcome was largely … [Read more...]

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Need help from the Hive mind

April 25, 2008 By freshayer

I recently tried to update my profile and all I managed to do was wipe it out. Even though I think I am following the procedures to input new data and it always denotes "changes saved", nothing gets saved. I have been referred to the Soap … [Read more...]

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