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-- When the homeless meet gentrification, the homeless get treated like shit. Shocker. [Boston Globe]

-- Not to worry, though. Governor Deval Patrick plans to eliminate homelessness in Massachusetts within five years. And he has a whopping $10 million set aside in his budget to do it. [Globe]

-- The Herald, always eager to battle sensationalism in the media, reports that the new strain of staph, elsewhere described as "the new AIDS," is anything but. [Boston Herald]

-- Despite the $300 million casinos may or may not provide Governor Patrick's 2009 budget, they are probably bad for the environment. [WBZ]

Monopoly street art photo taken in the newly homeless-unfriendly South End and labeled "bostonist" by Flickr user Hargo

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