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Tomorrow a public hearing on Bicyclist Safety Bill (aka S 1414) will take place in room B-2 of the Statehouse at 10 am. The bill is the same bill that Kerry Healey vetoed when she was governor helping Mitt out when they were both lame ducks. As we learned the first time around the executive office seemed to misinterpret the bill, thinking that it imposed a new set of rules on recreation. The bill's intention,...

Not long ago, Bostonist told you about how the Herald's crack team of investigative reporters broke the shocking (shocking!) story that craigslist was being used for purposes more nefarious than the mere selling of non-street-legal knives and mini footballs singned by a former Giants tight end who's been retired for over a decade. Yes, some unsavory folks were using the site to sell sex!

While Bostonist was happily ensconced in the warm embrace of family, turkey, and red wine yesterday, those America-hating scofflaws at Super 88 Markets (some of them just a few blocks down Washington street from our law-abiding gathering) were undermining everything we hold dear in this Commonwealth by being open for business. Despite Attorney General Reilly's stern warnings to Whole Foods and others, the Globe reports that the Asian foodstuffs chain was welcoming customers in many...

You may recall Bostonist wondering, not long ago, who was responsible for the fliers around town warning us about a social worker named Mary Mitchell-Nixon ("abuser of people with AIDS," the fliers said). Well, alert Bostonist reader Dan Roche brought to our attention the recent appearance of new, more detailed fliers, explaining more about the nature of one man's serious grudge. (The text and a picture of the new fliers are reproduced after the jump,...

When elected leaders make extra time to hear the concerns of well-heeled campaign contributors, Bostonist doesn't bat an eye. After all, politics is not a field from which we expect, um, ethical behavior. But when the amount of cash donated corresponds to the number of Red Sox tickets given to the donor, civic duty requires that we cry foul. Today's Globe reports that the Republican Governors Association will give four roof deck tickets for next Monday's Sox-Indians game to anyone who coughs up $50,000. Of course, donors also get photo-ops with various Republican Governors, including our own (he's the vice-chairman of the Rep. Govs. Assoc.), and get to attend the fun-filled New England Governors Forum (which, in addition to the Republican Governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, features the Governors of two lesser-known New England states, Arkansas and Missouri). So maybe it's not scalping - maybe donors are contributing $49,820 and $180 is face value for four tickets. (Or maybe the Red Sox are donating the tickets as an inducement to encourage private giving, the way local businesses do with public radio, although we doubt it). But The Globe also informs us that "those offering smaller donations - from $5,000 to $25,000 - get either two or three tickets to Fenway's right-field roof, depending on the amount" [Bostonist's emphasis]. This quid pro quo is starting to sound more like the sort of activity prohibited by Mass. General Laws chapter 140, section 185A.