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By adamg - 7/13/12 - 11:10 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that if you're facing criminal charges and want a court-appointed lawyer, you're going to have to prove you really are indigent - and that if you live at home, your parents or even significant others will have to chip in.
The state's highest court made its rulings in two separate cases today.
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 6:55 pm
Companies using a patent owned by the University of Washington yesterday sued every Boston research hospitals over the way they use MRI to diagnose certain brain problems.
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 6:30 pm
Northbound Orange Line riders reported more delays during this afternoon's rush.
By adamg - 7/12/12 - 11:59 am
The Boston Police Patrolmen's Association is acknowledging the recent protests over the content of its bimonthly newsletter, Pax Centurion.
First, the union fires back at people who asked advertisers to pull out:
By adamg - 7/11/12 - 8:21 pm
WBUR talks to Mary Tamer, a member of the School Committee who says she cannot believe how Superintendent Carol Johnson was going to just let former O'Bryant co-headmaster Rodney Peterson get away without any punishment after pleading guilty to beating his wife.
Her outrage is unusual on a committee hand-picked by the mayor.
By adamg - 7/10/12 - 6:47 pm
The Dorchester Reporter talks to at-large Councilor John Connolly, who says the Rodney Peterson case - especially the revelation that Johnson did nothing to discipline him even after he pleaded guilty - is just the latest in a string of "bad decision
By adamg - 7/10/12 - 10:12 am
School Superintendent Carol Johnson appeared on WBUR this morning to discuss the Rodney Peterson case, several days after the Globe reported she'd promised Peterson she'd take no action as long as the case stayed out of the media.
By adamg - 7/8/12 - 10:48 am
The Globe details how School Superintendent Carol Johnson did nothing after then O'Bryant co-headmaster Rodney Peterson pleaded guilty to domestic violence and applied for a new job in Memphis - and may have promised to keep that up as long as news didn't leak out (which it did). But the kicker to the whole thing is in the very last two paragraphs:
By adamg - 7/8/12 - 12:22 am
Around 10:30 p.m., possibly in the head on Danube Street, although the homicide unit was not requested, which is only done when injuries appear life threatening.
By Anonymous - 7/7/12 - 11:53 pm
The Tea Party so wanted five conservative judges to find the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional but as you know, that was not the decision. [float=right]
Boston Tea Party rally in Columbus Park.
Photo by Chris Faraone.
By adamg - 7/7/12 - 9:50 am
A trade association of contractors who install home security systems charges the two telecommunications companies are violating state law and possibly putting residents' lives in danger by letting unlicensed technicians install their own burglar alarms and smoke detectors.
In a lawsuit originally filed last month in state court but transferred this week to US District Court in Boston, the Massachusetts Systems Contractors Association charges:
By Anonymous - 7/7/12 - 4:22 am
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[/float]Rethink Brown has a new report that looks a Scott Brown's record during two years as US Senator.
The report is organized in four parts;
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 11:48 am
The BRA is hiring an Innovation District manager, the description for which sounds like the description for the people who run the city's Main Street programs in older 'hoods, only more innovationier - the successful candidate will attempt to recruit high-tech and biotech companies, instead of hardware stores and restaurants.
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 10:02 am
The Globe reports, adds that while the editor himself continues to refrain from public comments, the officer who wrote a column with a joke about Egyptian men having sex with their dead wives "stands behind" everything he's written.
By adamg - 7/5/12 - 1:42 pm
UPDATE: No right-wing wankfest - station will a Mike 93.7 successor.
The Phoenix reports the station it's selling to Clear Channel might be about to become Boston's new home of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Jimmy Severino, at least, if you follow where talk1017.com leads to.
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