Bite Size News, July 31: Thank you, Teddy Edition

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Picture of Ted Kennedy's sailboat Mya from flickr user mommyof3girls.
  • Senator Edward Kennedy will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama on August 12. In his 46-year Senate career, Kennedy has produced legislation supporting public schools, civil rights laws, healthcare, senior citizens, the military and Americans with disabilities. [Boston Globe]
  • Approximately 100-200 Massachusetts farms are battling the same fungus that caused the 19th-century Irish potato famine. [Boston Globe]
  • Don't count on MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas renewing his contract in May of 2010. Is this a surprise? Really? Would you stay? [WBUR]
  • Elaine Bump, the Massachusetts secretary of labor, reportedly told state auditor Joe DeNucci she wanted his job. This allegedly upset her boss, Governor Deval Patrick. [Boston Globe]
  • Now that B.U.student Joel Tenenbaum admitted to his illegal downloading and sharing of music, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner instructed the jury to consider only how much to award in damages to four recording labels that sued him. His lawyer asked the federal jury to award minimal damages. [WCVB]
  • President Obama's aunt Zeituni Polly Onyango, 57, is living in public housing in South Boston while she waits for a deportation hearing in February. [Boston Herald]

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