The Globe reports on comments Deval Patrick made this morning on WTKK.

They have them in other states. Now Gov. Patrick wants legislation to let cities and towns put cameras atop traffic signals to photograph and fine drivers caught going through red lights.

Interestingly, he put it in his latest proposal to deal with the state's latest fiscal problems - so that's how he's going to soften the blow of cuts in local aid to cities and towns (click on the link, then either scroll down or search on "red light").

Bill would only affect public workers in Suffolk County (question: And Somerville?).

Via David Guarino.

WBUR reports.

Boston Police relay word of street closings and such for Obama's appearance at the Copley Plaza this afternoon:

Huntington Avenue eastbound from West Newton Street will be closed to traffic from Noon to 4 PM. Within this same time frame, there will be intermittent closings of Dartmouth Street and St. James Avenue as well.

"No Stopping, Boston Police Special Event, Friday" signs will be posted at the following locations:

Front page material, even.

It's something I noticed in April of 2008, and wrote again about in March of 2009.

Interesting that new details are coming out, like the fact that a third of their workforce are temporary. I wonder how many of them are "independent contractors"...

The Globe also completely fails to mention that after securing money from the state and letting Patrick brag about the new jobs it was bringing in, Evergreen Solar built a $55M plant in Michigan which they claim will have 100 employees. Evergreen Solar received 2 million dollars from Michigan in tax credits last year.

Karen Sutton explains how a be-robed Governor of the Commonwealth came by to help her son clean up at the State House yesterday.

Earlier:
Sometimes the third graders are a bit more combative.

Despite tax hikes.

Jay Fitzgerald ponders the crowning of a guy most of us have never heard of as our Temporary Senator:

With an unerring instinct for political disaster, Deval Patrick looks like he's going with Paul Kirk -- and Patrick will look like a first-rate incompetent weenie as a result. He'll come across as having caved to the mildest criticism of Dukakis and the slightest hint a Dukakis appointment might be used as a campaign issue. He'll come across as having buckled to the wishes of the out-of-state Kennedy family and D.C. insiders. He should have cut his losses and just gone with the Duke. ...

The Globe reports Gov. Patrick will tell state workers who need a room to find someplace that doesn't have "Hyatt" in its name.