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Wilkerson took a lot more money

The Globe gets the exclusive interview; she says she didn't do anything for the $70,000 she got but never reported over the past ten years.

Jay Fitzgerald: Incredible:

... I didn't even know that 'personal fund-raising' had been apparently OK'd by the state's ethics commission. Wilkerson has two commission letters to prove it. ...

And, as Jay notes, this is something Richard Vitale is probably reading up on.


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Michael Flaherty announces run for mayor on YouTube

Flaherty's campaign Web site.

Ed note: See the comments for all the drama (in my own mind?) about the video going up Saturday evening, then coming down, then going back up again.


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Toy train south of Stony Brook

Toy train

The Notorious R.O.B. used a technique known as tilt shift to transform the Orange Line into an HO train set.

Photo used under Creative Commons.


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LaRouchies turn out en masse to support Chuck Turner

Mike Ball reports on a Chuck Turner rally at the Park Square Radisson today that opened with the dulcet a-capella stylings of the LaRouche Jugend:

... At the Radisson before the meeting, it was clear that this was a mandated event for the LaRouche youth. They knew each other and outnumbered the rest of us considerably. Under 100 attended and the 20-somethings dominated. Each was obviously trained to engage, gathering names and contact info on the way in, offering dozens of tracts as stapled magazines or perfect-bound booklets. ...

Ball provides a summary of Turner's speech, which not only brought up the hypocrisy angle of the case against him (why is the U.S. Attorney attempting to keep Turner from speaking truth to power when the guy himself released evidence before the trial?), but even veered into LaRouchist territory, when Turner ran with some of ol' Lyndon's anti-British rhetoric.


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They say home fries make the cafe

Mags is beginning to plan her very own cafe and she reports she's concentrating on the breakfast menu right now:

... I was told that home fries (or hash browns) makes or breaks a cafe that serves breakfast. I don't disagree. There are literally hundreds of way you can make home fries-which got me thinking about how YOU would want them if you came to my cafe. So, why don't you tell me? ...


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MBTA says to hell with Idaho

Sure, there's the whole verge-of-bankruptcy thing, but the Globe reports the MBTA is putting off the purchase of new commuter-rail locomotives because of "an ongoing battle between the two companies that were competing for the contract."

The T had been talking to a European company about building the engines in Kentucky, but Idaho's apparently mighty congressional delegation got the Federal Railway Administration to block that because the company would have built a couple of test models in Europe, which the feds said violated a "Buy America" clause in federal railroad funding rules. Why does Idaho care? The only other bidder was a manufacturer outside Boise.

The Globe says the T might reconsider seeking bids for the locomotives in a few months, when it has a better idea of its finances.


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Old cat ladies never die - they just move to Plymouth

The Cat Lady of Beacon Hill is now the Cat Lady of Plymouth, John Ford warns.


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Alleged hungry thugs forgot the first rule of sticking up the delivery guy

Which is: When you call in your order, don't use your actual address. Boston Police report arresting four Dorchester residents for armed robbery with a sawed-off shotgun Friday night - in the same apartment they'd listed when they called up a local pizza shop to order three pizzas and a calzone.

Police say one of the four met the delivery guy downstairs at 105 Lawrence Ave. around 11 p.m., handed him $40 as if to pay him, then pulled out a handgun and demanded all his money:

According to the victim at this same time, two other black males in their late teens exited the building, one armed with a silver handgun and the other with a sawed-off rifle. After the suspect's was robbed of his money, the suspects instructed him not to look back and they fled into 105 Lawrence Avenue.

When police arrived, they went up to Apartment 6, from which the order had come. They say they found the four hiding in the bathroom - four other people were lounging about the living room - along with a black and brown handled sawed-off shotgun. Oh, and elsewhere in the apartment, police say they found three pizza boxes.

Kenya M. Blalock, 18, Dammikka A. Singleton, 18, Darius M. Sims, 20 and Jeffrey S. Jones, 19, were charged with armed robbery possession of a sawed-off rifle.

Kenya is, as they say, known to police. On Dec. 1, she was arrested along with four other people on charges they robbed a guy walking down Bowdoin Street near Geneva Avenue.

Innocent, etc.

Fri, 01/23/2009 - 18:03
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And here's why I would avoid a stranger offering a free hug

Brookline Police report on an incident Thursday afternoon in front of 146 Harvard St.:

Victim reports that while walking down the street the suspect approached the victim in a motion of offering a hug. The victim then stopped walking and was punched by the suspect in his waist. The victim did not know this suspect and the suspect fled the scene. The suspect was approximately 5'10" 50 years of age and dark skinned.


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