Results tagged “bite size news”

• Attention holiday shoppers: Boston offers free parking on Black Friday, and every Saturday left in 2009. [Boston Globe]

• Some firehouses in Boston are busy and some aren't and it's a trend that might require City Hall to reassign some jakes. [Boston Herald]

• The Franklin Park Zoo's population has grown thanks to the birth of two rare animal babies. Check out pictures of the animal goodness here. [WCVB]

• Massachusetts lost out on $147 million in federal stimulus grant money available for public transportation upgrades along Blue Hill Avenue due to bickering between the Patrick administration and residents of Roxbury and Mattapan. [Boston Globe]

• Republican Senate candidate Jack E. Robinson supports free public transportation. [Boston Herald]

• Mass. Maritime 2, Pirates 0. [Boston Globe]

• While Governor Deval Patrick and Speaker Robert A. DeLeo bicker, the fate of an education bill, not to mention $250 million in federal stimulus funds, is up in the air. [Boston Herald]

• According to the University of Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, corporate use of social media - Twitter, Facebook, etc. - has increased greatly in the past three years. []

• Mass. lawmakers are debating establishing preferred parking zones for low emission vehicles. [Boston Herald]

• Ted Kennedy Jr. has no plans to actively support any candidate in the Massachusetts Senate race.[Boston Globe]

• Michael Capuano told Fox25 that he is good and his opponents are really really bad. [MyFoxBoston.com]

• Senior citizens spoke out against increased restrictions on elderly drivers. That spooked State lawmakers into delaying this legislation. [Boston Herald]

• Some 90 Massachusetts Turnpike Authority workers got raises while thousands of state employees possibly face job cuts. [WCVB]

• A study by the Massachusetts Advocates for Children says 90% of autistic children in this state have been bullied. [Boston Herald]

• Massachusetts honored Bay State veterans at a State House ceremony today. [Boston Globe]

• The wife of late Marine Capt. Kyle Van De Giesen of North Attleboro gave birth to their second child, Colin Joseph, on Tuesday. Van De Giesen, 29, was killed October 26 in Afghanistan. leaves a legacy with the birth of his son Tuesday. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]

• Governor Deval Patrick signed a bill today to expand veterans benefits to include cash payments for deployments and access to employment. [Boston Herald]

• With the Patrick administration considering expanding gambling in Massachusetts, the Governor is proposing budget cuts to helping gambling addicts. [Boston Herald]

• Governor Deval Patrick's administration plans to cut funding for special treatment units for prisoners with mental illness. The cut could restart a suit by the Disability Law Center against the Department of Correction that was headed for an out of court settlement. [Boston Globe]

• Marine Capt. Kyle Van De Giesen's funeral was held today in North Attleboro. He was killed in Afghanistan on October 26. [WCVB]

• A Plainville man is stationed at Fort Hood, where an Army major allegedly killed 13 people on Thursday in a shooting spree. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]

While Boston voted for Mayor Tom Menino again, cities and towns around Massachusetts voted incumbents out and elected a diverse array of new leaders. [Boston Globe] With thousands of auxiliary ballots left to count, City Council and School Committee candidates in Cambridge won't have official results until at least the end of the day Wednesday. [Cambridge Chronicle] A Georgetown woman wants the Bay State to require insurers to cover children’s hearing aids. [Boston Herald]

• The early voter turnout in Boston was heavy in places as the choice between Menino and Flaherty was finally made. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]

• Boston votes on Tuesday. Today, the Boston Herald provides two potential campaign issues for voters. Michael Flaherty blames Mayor Thomas M. Menino for the lack of Verizon FiOS service in Boston while Menino blames Verizon. Flaherty blames Mayor Menino for a lack of available financing needed to complete work at the unfinished Filene’s site at Downtown Crossing.

• Budget Cut Redux: Gov. Deval Patrick plans to save the state's new film-industry tax credit while advocates for residents of Massachusetts with mental illnesses are concerned about cuts to social services. [Boston Herald]

• The father of the Boston special officer who shot and killed the man who stabbed the psychiatrist discussed his son with the media. [Boston Globe]

• The Globe apparently stalked Mayor Tom Menino and determined he is a cross between a conquering hero, a champion boxer, and Boss Tweed. Menino is quoted as describing himself in the following terms: "I’m not good looking, I can’t speak well, I’m not smart." [Boston Globe]

• Michael F. Flaherty is focused on his campaign theme Tom Menino heads a corrupt administration at City Hall. [Boston Globe]

• President Obama's trip to Boston is in the books. He discussed energy policy at MIT, visited a wind-testing facility in Charlestown that received federal stimulus funds, and attended a fundraiser for Gov. Deval Patrick. [Boston Herald]

• George Chmiel, 28, of Charlestown is competing in a seven-day, 150-mile foot race through the Sahara Desert. Chmiel reportedly said "It’s totally insane yet at the same time it makes a bunch of sense." Better him than Bostonist. Good luck, though. Really. [Boston Globe]

• Six months after he survived being held hostage by Somali pirates, Captain Richard Phillips said he's considering a new career. [AP via Google]

• Michael Flaherty and Tom Menino split two Democratic Committee ward votes last night. [UniversalHub]

• Bay State lawmakers want to require students to remain in school until age 18 in order to cut the dropout rate. [Boston Globe]

• Amherst's Town Meeting will consider allowing Guantanamo detainees to relocate there after they are released. [Boston Herald]

• One hundred employees at the state's Department of Conservation and Recreation were let go today. [Boston Herald]

Continue reading "Bite Size News, October 20: Amherst Goes Gitmo Edition"

A $600 million budget gap could lead to trimming 2,000 state jobs, not to mention other cost-cutting measures. [Boston Globe]...The Mass. unemployment rate jumped to 9.2% in September, which might mean the Bay State is still in a recession. [Boston Herald]...Potential amendments to the state's transportation reform bill could eliminate some of the saving that was the purpose of the reforms. [Boston Herald]

• Four environmental groups resigned from a state advisory panel to Gov. Patrick's administration after a dispute over clean water policy and the Water Management Act. [WCVB]

• Puppy surgeons will operate on the brain of an abandoned 8-month-old Chihuahua to save his life. [WCVB]

• The T board is dead. Long live the T. [Boston Globe]

• President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. [New York Times]

• A Framingham man, Nathan Brooks, will pilot the Goodyear blimp tonight over the Red Sox-Angels playoff game in Anaheim. Only 146 people nationwide are certified to pilot a blimp. [Boston Globe]

• Thirteen communities Massachusetts are getting $8.1 million in federal stimulus cash to rehire 127 firefighters. [Boston Herald]

• While Martha Coakley has some favorable polling data, Alan Khazei has something Coakley probably won't get: the endorsement of a Kennedy, in this case, RFK's son Max Kennedy. [Boston Globe]

• Governor Deval Patrick says his plan to replace cops with civilian flaggers on major work sites would save Masachusetts $7.2 million per year. The city of Boston disagrees, and the City Council yesterday voted 12-1 to prove it. [Boston Herald]

• Several off-duty police officers protested the presence of a civilian flagger in a road crew on Route 6A in West Barnstable. [Cape Cod Times]

• Both candidates appeared on WCVB last night. Tom Menino called the Flaherty/Yoon "ticket" as “jobs for votes," and Flaherty didn't like it. [Boston Herald]

• More budget cuts are looming as Governor Deval Patrick announced that September revenues were $243 million short of expectations. [Boston Globe]

• A Delta Air Lines shuttle flight from Boston to La Guardia Airport in New York collided with a bird on Tuesday. The plane left Logan Airport at 4:30 p.m. and struck the bird at 6 p.m. as it was on final approach to the airport. Pictures[WCVB]

• Massachusetts is holding an H1N1 virus summit in Worcester. The Department of Public Health announced H1N1 vaccines will be available within two weeks. [WCVB]

• Should doctors get paid by pharmaceutical corporations like Eli Lilly & Co. for speaking on behlf of drugs they make and doctors prescribe to us? No, but 60 Bay State physicians have done it this year anyway and were paid a total of $500,000 to do it. [Boston Globe]

• For two "change" candidates, Sam Yoon and Michael Flaherty seem to be pretty familiar with brokering purely political deals. [Boston Herald]

• Senator John Kerry included a $20 million earmark in a Defense Department bill to fund the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. [Boston Globe]

• Martha Coakley spent lots of cash gearing up for a Senate bid even before there was an open seat to run for. [Boston Herald]

The selection of Paul Kirk as interim Senator is not the end of the story as he is apparently Ted Kennedy's executor and related to Cardinal William H. O'Connell. Oh, and the state Republican Party has filed an injunction to block the appointment.

• The National Transportation Safety Board is concerned that a malfunction in the automated signal system that caused a deadly crash in Washington, DC in June could cause a similar incident in Boston. [WBZ]

• Mayor Tom Menino appears to have a cash and organizational advantage over Michael Flaherty. [Boston Globe]

• Boston University set aside rooms for students exhibiting flu-like symptoms. Students are discussing the policy's strengths and weaknesses. [B.U. Daily Free Press]

• Consider this: Could fears about the swine flu be more disruptive than the actual flu outbreak? [Yahoo!News.com]

• With Steven Tyler recovering from his fall, Joe Perry is mad, and the future of Aerosmith is uncertain. Perry had already commented on the fall. [AP via Boston.com]

• Foxboro has a message for fans attending either of U2's Gillette Stadium concert dates on Sunday and Monday: Don't arrive too early. [Attleboro Sun Chronicle]