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The Cape Wind project takes another step forward after signing a deal with National Grid. [Cape Cod Times]
Boston stoners may be too high to remember their marijuana tickets. About 80% of the citations have not been paid. [Boston Herald]
The New Kids on the Block apparently don't know what year it is, because they performed at the American Music Awards last night. [CBS News]
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Mass Tank Sales Corp. of Middleboro will make offshore wind components for Cape Wind project. It could create 100-350 jobs. [Boston Herald] Two Cambridge Health Alliance staffers are suing their employer for allegedly not compensting them for working through lunch breaks. [Cambridge Chronicle]
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Many Bay State incumbents will run unopposed in upcoming elections. [Boston Herald]
Vicki Kennedy probably won't run for Senate. [The Hill]
The Worcester Telegram & Gazette has introduced a paywall on its website. (Is Boston.com next?) [WBUR]
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Prior to Saturday's World Cup match, the most notable American-English tie battle happened 235 years ago today. [Telegram & Gazette]
The Commonwealth is getting serious about extending commuter rail service to Fall River-New Bedford area by purchasing 30 miles of track in the area. [Taunton Daily Gazette]
The Celtics won their 17th NBA championship two years ago today. [NBC Sports]
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Huggers will continue to find trees in Massachusetts as the Commonwealth is moving to protect more of its forests from logging, etc. [Berkshire Eagle]
Although there is resistance to Cape wind power, a Boston Harbor island may be a successful location. [Patriot Ledger]
Earth Day activists are in hot (clean?) water for camping overnight in Boston Common. [Boston Globe]
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An advisory panel recommends rejection of Cape wind project. [Cape Cod Times]
Steven Tyler and Neil Diamond sang and competed in the "Who is older than Fenway Park?" competition. [CBS News]
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In one week, two whales have died at the same Rhode Island beach. [Providence Journal]
Cape Wind opponents continue to drag their feet -- into a courtroom. [Cape Cod Times]
Uh, oh. Genzyme's contaminated Allston factory may endanger some that count on their drug treatments. [Boston Globe]
A soldier from Chicopee has died from wounds inflicted by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. [Worcester Telegram]
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A baby was left on the doorstep of a 81 year-old Newton man. Nice job, Mom! [Boston Herald]
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A small plane crashed in Orange, Mass. Saturday. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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The Justice Department is suing Massachusetts and Brockton. Massachusetts is checking the immigration status of anyone arrested. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
- Harpers Ferry in Allston closed tonight after more than 40 years. [UniversalHub]
- Ted Sorensen, President John F. Kennedy's former speechwriter, died Sunday at 82. [WCVB]
- Massachusetts is the second most energy-efficient state behind California. That's even including a record-setting demand for energy this summer. [Boston Globe]
- The state Department of Energy Resources allocated $200,000 to setting up electric vehicle charging stations. [Boston Business Journal]
- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Cape Wind Associates signed a 28-year lease, the first lease for commercial wind energy in the country. [Boston Herald]
- Hurricane Earl finished off Gene Ratner's Nantucket home. [Nantucket Island Inquirer]
- Wayne Johnson of Marblehead has to destroy his $1 million home because it blocks his neighbors view. [WBZ]
If you live in the Massachusetts Tenth Congressional District and remain undecided with just over a week left until the primary election on Tuesday, September 14, pay attention to WGBH on Wednesday for Mass Decision 2010 coverage.
- Moving TARDIS. TARDIS practice. Pick your pun. That sucker is mobile. [Universal Hub]
- Virginians probably thought their RMV was probably just incompetent. It's really EMC that messed up. Don't mess with Hopkinton. [Boston Globe]
- Citing the layoff this week of 23 Lawrence firefighters, the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts is asking for "a public safety state of emergency" in the city from Gov. Deval Patrick. [Lawrence Eagle Tribune]
- DeLuca's Market on Charles Street in Beacon Hill was damaged in a fire Thursday. The market has been in the same spot for over 100 years. Pictures. [Boston Globe]
- Ten parishes in the Boston Archdiocese that were ordered closed in 2004 face a looming final verdict from a Vatican court. Parishioners at some churches have kept them open with around-the-clock vigils. [WBZ]
- Lord Jesus Christ was hit by a car in Pittsfield. He was not hurt. [MassLive.com]
- The Cape Wind wind farm project has finally been approved. [Boston Globe]
- Scott Brown is against it and called it "industrialization." [Wind-Watch.org]
- Despite a determination by the National Park Service that the Nantucket Sound can be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Obama administration signaled a resolution to the nine-year dispute over the Cape Wind project is close by planning a meeting next week involving concerned parties. [Boston Globe]
- A plan released by the Patrick administration would allow more than 200 wind turbines in Massachusetts coastal waters by using zoning rules to develop renewable energy projects. The plan also incorporates new environmental protections into the process of developing coastal water uses. [Boston Globe]
- 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]
Two Native American tribes from Massachusetts are objecting to the Cape Wind wind-turbine project, citing the potential damage to "spiritual sun greetings and submerged ancestral burying grounds." According to the Globe, the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag tribes want to add Nantucket Sound to the National Register of Historic Places. The Globe also reported that the tribes' opposition to the project could delay, but not necessarily stop, the entire project. People seem to like the idea of Cape Wind unless they like to sail there. Bostonist has a suggestion to solve the newest dispute: Attach a floating casino to the Cape Wind project.
Lyme disease cases are up 39% over last year in Nantucket. The island's rate of Lyme infection is abnormally high, almost on par with the island's other unspeakable affliction: opposition to the Cape Wind project. If only there were a way to coordinate the two epidemics.
--Divers are looking for the body of a man who somehow went from the Mass Pike into Sudbury River last night. [Boston Globe]
This week, the Civil Society Institute released survey results that showed 82 percent of people in Massachusetts approved of Cape Wind, which would install wind turbines in Nantucket Sound. The news came out just as Cape Wind supporters were pushing for US Rep Ed "Biz" Markey to publicly back the project. {They are not lobbying Senator Ted Kennedy, who, in a fit of NIMBYism, has opposed the project from the get-go because Nantucket Sound is his backyard.)
--Logan Airport is getting wind turbines. And we look to opponents of Cape Wind to ask, "So, what's your issue with wind power again?" [Boston Globe]