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• 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]

• Congressman Michael Capuano will announce on Friday that he is running for Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat. Capuano said he waited to join the race out of respect for Sen. Kennedy. [Boston Herald]

• With Mass. Attorney General/Senate candidate Martha Coakley now supporting the appointment of a temporary Senator to replace Ted Kennedy and momentum growing to change the law to allow it, former Governor Michael Dukakis is being seen as a leading choice for the interim appointment. [Boston Globe]

• After a near collision yesterday and another mishap involving trains in Massachusetts today, does Jeffrey Mullan really want to run the new MassDOT when it opens up for business on November 1? Really? [Boston Globe]

• The Massachusetts House of Representatives may vote as early as Thursday on a bill that would allow Gov. Deval Patrick to pick a temporary replacement for Sen. Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate. Channel 5 reports the bill would pass the House but not necessarily the state Senate. [WCVB]

• Boston-based 9/11 families are comforted that President Obama has declared September 11 as a National Day of Service and Remembrance. [Boston Herald]

• The National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum is collecting hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories to document 9/11. The Museum, slated to open in three years, will warn visitors about graphic images in the museum or online. [AP via Yahoo! News]

• Repetitive? Yes. Rare? Yes. Ridiculous? Maybe. That today's date is 9/9/09 means different things to different people. A repeating date like that won't happen again for almost a century. [MyFoxBoston.com]

• Tim Cahill doesn't want to be a Senator. He wants to be Governor, though. [Boston Globe]

• John McCain can't vote in our special election to replace Senator Kennedy. That fact didn't stop him from butting into the Bay State's business by tying to get Curt Schilling to run. [CNN]

• Asburnham's Cushing Academy has a library with no books in it. [Boston Globe]

• Now we know where the bones are buried in Cambridge. [Boston Herald]

• Beaches in Chatham are open today. Say hello to the sharks. [Cape Cod Times]