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For those of us who've ever asked

Should we walk, or do we have time to take the T?

, the answer apparently is: It doesn't make a difference.

In their latest attempt to cover up how minimal the replacement shuttle bus service between North Station and Lechmere really is, the MBTA has just put up a series of new posters at North Station "suggesting" that people destined for Science Park might want to walk there instead of taking the shuttle bus. The read (in part):

Getting To Science Park

Shuttle Bus: 15 Minutes
Walking: 15 Minutes

and proceeds to extoll the benefits of walking instead of using the bus.


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Deep Ellum gets permission to tacoize; Brighton Ave. place gets OK to go kabob-bob-bobbing along at night

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday voted to let Deep Ellum, 477 Cambridge St., take over the space next door to open a Texas-style taco place called Lone Star Taco Bar.

The board also gave Boston Kabob Co., 164 Brighton Ave., permission to stay open until 1 a.m., Thursday through Saturday. The kaboberia had asked for permission to keep the lights on until 2 a.m. those days.


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At least they weren't caught serving cold tea

A Chinatown restaurant caught serving well past its 2 a.m. closing time again was slapped with a one-day license suspension.

A manager at Bubor Cha-Cha, 45 Beach St., told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing this week he didn't really know why the restaurant was still open at 3:15 a.m. on May 7 - when police issued the eatery a citation - but thought it might have been because the restaurant was short-staffed that night and so was simply slow to fill orders.

Lt. Det. Eric Eversley, however, told the board that around 3 a.m., he saw three people enter the restaurant, get seated and given water and silverware - as 14 other people already in the restaurant continued to tuck into their food. Eversley said the drinks were non-alcoholic.

The restaurant earned a similar citation in October for the same offense; at the time the board issued only a warning. Board Chairwoman Nicole Murati Ferrer said she'd had enough:

"You can't operate past 2 a.m.," she said. "I don't care if you have one chef or 20 chefs, there are no ifs ands or buts."


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Red Sox say: It gets better


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Man pleads guilty in online prescription scheme that snared Dorchester pharmacy

A man who worked for a DHL subcontractor pleaded guilty this week for his role in illegally selling prescription drugs over the Internet through a network the government says included a Bowdoin Street drugstore.

Steven Immergluck, of Aurora, Ill., made his plea Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston. Immergluck handled shipping for Global Access, SA, a Dominican company that operated Web sites through which people could order prescription drugs without ever actually meeting the doctors who authorized the prescriptions, according to an affidavit by DEA Special Agent Anthony Roberto.

The government says that many of the prescriptions between 2006 and 2008 were filled at Meetinghouse Community Pharmacy, 248 Bowdoin St. Owners Baldwin and Gladys Ihenacho were originally scheduled to stand trial in April on a variety of charges related to the operation, but their trial was postponed after Gladys Ihenacho's attorney, Robert George, was himself indicted on unrelated money-laundering charges.

According to his indictment, Immergluck helped the Ihenachos process as many as 4,000 online prescriptions a month between 2006 and 2008, all digitally signed by doctors who had never seen the patients the drugs - mostly phentermine and alprazolam - were going to. A 2009 DEA order that stripped the pharmacy of its right to sell controlled substances says:

Mr. Ihenacho stated that at one point he was receiving approximately 100 prescriptions a day from [Global Access president Palasy "Jack" Hernandez Hernandez] and had to tell him that he could not fill that many scripts because it was interfering with his local business.

The DEA order, based in part in a confession Boston Police says Ihenacho gave after his arrest (which Ihenacho is now contesting, claiming he was not properly read his Miranda rights):

According to Mr. Ihenacho, he received approximately $100,000 for filling the prescriptions from Jack and was owed an additional $145,000. ...

Mr. Ihenacho further stated that he had visited run by Jack at his office in the Dominican Republic, and had been introduced to Jack's cousin. The cousin told Mr. Ihenacho that he wanted to start his own Internet pharmacy business; Mr. Ihenacho started filling prescriptions for the cousin as well. According to Mr. Ihenacho, the cousin had paid him approximately $100,000 for a one-year period and owed him another $40,000. Mr. Ihenacho also told investigators that he had filled prescriptions for the owners of several other Internet schemes, two of whom paid him a fee of $10,000 a week. Moreover, at the time of his arrest, Mr. Ihenacho stated that he was currently filling approximately 150 Internet prescriptions per day.

Immergluck's sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 20.


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Guy must have really rough skin

Oil of Olay guyBrookline Police report this guy keeps shoplifting Oil of Olay products from the CVS at 900 Commonwealth Ave.

He grabbed $1,000 worth of Oil of Olay stuff on Monday - four days after he was spotted leaving the store with even more Oil of Olay products.

If he looks familiar, give a holler to Brookline Police at 617-730-2244 ext. 2716.


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Somerville tries to improve city services through mystery shoppers

The city is recruiting volunteers to deliberately interact with city agencies and then report back on the level of service they got. Volunteers will try everything from obtaining a residential parking sticker to signing up for a library card to submitting an information request at 311.


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The Fourth came a little early in Somerville

July 4th in Somerville

Somerville held its July 4th fireworks last night, and what would a celebration of American independence be without fried dough? Chris Devers watched the bombs bursting in air.

Posted under this Creative Commons license. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.


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The T was slammin'

Listen to Radio Boston's report on the MBTA poetry slam at the Cantab Lounge the other night - which Richard Beaubien took in as well:

MBTA slamming

Photo copyright Richard Beaubien. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.


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