Travaglini resigning.

If nothing else, should divert media attention from Patrick.

Carpundit reports that whoever was driving the car with the SENATE 1 plates really should learn how to drive in a winter storm:

The sanest perhaps, but not the only one (need to know more? Of course you do).

The Outraged Liberal analyzes the latest out of New Beford; concludes the feds know exactly how to time a staged raid; the new staties need to seriously get their act together and fast - except for DSS Commissioner Harry Spence and Patrick flack Nancy Fernandez Mills, who, he says, just need to resign.

At least, according to the Globe's paean to the new UMass-Lowell chancellor. Adam Reilly compares the Globe's soft touch with the Herald's slightly more critical take, which at least acknowledges that the other two candidates had slightly better academic credentials (in the sense that they actually have them).

Or do they simply smell blood in the water?

AmberPaw worked as a volunteer today, doing Spanish interviews with some of the people arrested in New Bedford:

... Not one of the detainees I interviewed had any criminal history. All were working 48 hour weeks for $7.50 an hour. The saddest question was from a Guatemalan father, who had been working side-by-side with his 18 year old son. They were separated by the ICE raid, and he does not know where his son is. ...

Jay Fitzgerald doesn't buy a Chicago Sun-Times report that ranks Massachusetts only 26th on a ranking of corruption, because the report is based largely on federal indictments and, well, when your federal officials are themselves corrupt, you don't tend to see as many corruption indictments.

Earlier in the week, Adam blogged about the Human Peace Symbol that was planned for Copley Square today.

Well, I took pictures of it today. Some from the ground, some from the conference room near my desk on the 48th floor of the Hancock Tower. You can see them all here.