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Gov. Patrick's e-mail fail

By adamg on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 9:02am

Steve Garfield explains why he just unsubscribed from the governor's e-mail list.


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Report from the front lines in Coolidge Corner

By adamg on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:54am

Dennis Fox held a sign in support of Gaza in Coolidge Corner yesterday:

... I had two decent conversations with supporters of Israel that went beyond sloganeering, until in both cases they had enough and moved away. I don't believe such conversations will change many minds, and I doubt that changing individual minds will change Israeli policy, but it was more pleasant than mutual screaming.

One of my fellow protestors asked me what I thought made sense to do. I didn't have a good answer.

Miss Kelly, meanwhile, notes a pro-Gaza rally at 5 this afternoon in front of the Israeli consulate in Park Plaza, urges Israeli supporters to attend:

... Please go and show your support for Israel tomorrow. Don't let the Hamas-supporting, Muslim Brotherhood-backed Boston Muslim American Society get all the press coverage.


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If your body's a temple, then Partners Healthcare and Blue Cross are the moneychangers

By adamg on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:47am

Charley on the MTA recommends the Globe's latest story on our own little health-care cartel, and sums up what this and revelations about local doctors pushing pills while getting paid by the drug companies really means:

... Health care costs, particularly in MA, are not just high because of some vague, unknowable "market forces"; it isn't just that the Health Care Invisible Hand mysteriously keeps us all under its thumb, and gosh golly, after all There's Nothing That Can Be Done.

No, it's simpler than that. We're actively, intentionally, unethically and possibly illegally getting screwed.


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Menino shelves plan to move City Hall to South Boston

By adamg on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 8:45am

The Globe reports Menino says now's not the time, partly because the city needs to save the money he wanted to spend on all those studies and construction and moving, partly because nobody would pay the city what it once thought it would get for the current City Hall.


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Faneuil Hall Marketplace is dead. Long live Faneuil Hall Marketplace

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:47pm

Faneuil Hall Marketplace (dammit: Quincy Market) was meant to bring life back to a somnolent downtown. It succeeded. Now it's basically a Natick Mall but with a better food court. Brand Avenue considers the birth, life and slow death of the nation's first "festival marketplace" and wonders what could replace it, especially now that its operator is trying to stave off bankruptcy.

Via Joanne McNeil, who also notes the market's migration from quirky only-in-Boston shops to chain stores:

How curious that urban pedestrian walks grow to tedious and commercial.


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The world would be a much better place without Yellow Book

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:41pm

Martin Lieberman reports:

Yesterday, as I was leaving my apartment, I noticed that Yellowbook had dropped off the 2009 phone books. Do you know how many they left us? Sixteen. Do you know how many people live in my building? Exactly six. Any moron with a pair of eyes could see that there are only six mailboxes here, and the phone books are all stacked up right underneath them. And now it's a day and a half later, and all 16 are still there, untouched. ...

Ed Yellowbook note: I'm grateful Boston lets you recycle phonebooks, because our Yellowbook never even made it in the house - it went straight from porch to blue bin.


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Ditch Brady for Cassel?

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 10:33pm

Hey, look at Brady and Bledsoe. Don Martelli explains why it might make sense.

Channel 4: Brady may not be 100 percent for 2009.


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Mission Hill targeted by burglars

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 9:24pm

They're looking for apartments left vacant by vacationing college students, but aren't all that choosy, Boston Police report:

If you see anyone in the area that does not look familiar to you, contact Boston Police immediately. If you are calling from your cell phone dial 617-343-4911; in order to get the Boston Police dispatcher.


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Teen dead of multiple gunshot wounds in Mattapan

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 8:50pm

Boston Police report finding a male, 18, with several gunshot wounds shortly before 1 p.m. today at 7 Hosmer St. He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Mon, 12/29/2008 - 07:54
Neighborhoods: 
Mattapan
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Guns


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Oh, no, not a bombogenesis

By adamg on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 8:33pm

Not a clue what that means, but it sounds bad and we could get one Wednesday afternoon: Lots of snow and temperatures collapsing quicker than Favre in green and white.


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