Michael Flaherty proposes that city workers who haven't already agreed to wage freezes work an unpaid day once a every other month for the next twelve months. He says this would save the city almost $20 million a year, or enough to pay for the costs of unemployment and health benefits for all the workers the city plans to lay off.

Meanwhile, Kevin McCrea says this wouldn't be necessary if it weren't for 165 new city workers he says Menino has hired over the past year.

What? Jonathan Papelbon is endorsing Flaherty? Does the Papelbot even know there's an election this year?

Herald: Pike plagued by weekend traffic jams.

Seems lots of tolltakers reported in sick and the turnpike no longer calls in replacement workers. So, do you think all those tolltakers were sick?

The MBTA informs us of a renewed push on its "See something, say something" campaign tomorrow morning:

At dozens of stations around the nation's fifth busiest public transportation system, MBTA Transit Police will be joined by bus, subway, and Commuter Rail personnel in talking with customers and distributing tens of thousands of the MBTA's Transit Watch pamphlets that encourage people to report:

An unaccompanied bag or package in a remote area
Any passengers behaving oddly
A group operating in an orchestrated or rehearsed manner
Suspicious odors, fluids, or other substances

At Back Bay Station, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel Conley, MBTA General Manager Daniel Grabauskas, Transit Police Chief Paul MacMillan will hand out the pamphlets to commuters.

Third Decade discovers that having a Ben Affleck movie filmed on your street is kind of annoying - from the slowed-to-a-crawl Internet service to the muscle that tells you you can't take pictures on your own street.