Massachusetts voters know what it's like to get dumped. They fell in love with a handsome, rugged cool kid and accepted his class ring. Then, all of a sudden, he stopped returning their phone calls. Sometimes, he'd pass by in the hall and make small talk, but he was always making sure that others were watching, just so the observers knew he was "letting the voters down easy." But the news that he was moving......

After the infamous tunnel collapse of this past July, one could argue that East Boston had it bad. Being an island, there is no feasible way for residents to get into the city without going through a tunnel or over a bridge, unless one considers a detour through Chelsea and Somerville "feasible". However, some comfort was taken in the fact that the Sumner and Callahan, built in 1961 and 1934, respectively, had existed for decades......

We're not quite sure how the day is going to end. We could see 100% voter turnout (not likely), a huge upset in the democratic gubernatorial race with a write in campaign for Dukakis (also unlikely), September 19, 2006 being declared Fox News Channel Day by both the City of Boston and the State of Massachusetts (boy, we thought this was impossible), people roaming the streets with speech peppered with Yarr and Matey (how is......

Two days after the I-90 connector tragedy, answers are starting to surface. Unfortunately, none of them are what you’d want to hear. Given the history of mismanagement surrounding the Big Dig project, it should come as no surprise that problems were discovered as early as 1999, when at least five bolts in the connector failed routine testing. It may be worth mentioning that these bolts, which anchored the tie rods holding 3-ton panels, were fastened......

Today's Globe mentioned Boston Magazine's recent flub over this month's "Power Issue" cover. Listing the Top 100 Most Powerful People in Boston, the issue has been getting a lot of press in the local media. Well, the list might be all well and good, but the black and white cover of Governor Mitt Romney with a green "POWER" across his chest is not great. Turns out the February 2005 issue of Texas Monthly had this......

Boston Red Sox have long supported the Jimmy Fund as their official charity. Today Mayor Menino brings another Jimmy to the Hub. Jimmy Fallon will be given a key to the city later today in a ceremony officiated by Menino and Governor Mitt Romney. After Fallon’s six year stint on Saturday Night Live and countless portrayals of characters hailing from the Bay State Jimmy Fallon will be given the honor he deserves. Recurring characters portrayed......

The MBTA has announced that to help reduce their budget deficit liquor will be sold in subway stations. With the growing population of panhandlers who collect money in the subway stations then leave to go purchase alcohol the MBTA can increase profits by selling spirits within the stations. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said "We are hoping that the alcoholics and students of the Boston area will take advantage of this new service." Beer and pint......

Yesterday, the Boston Globe reported on UMass President Jack Wilson getting heated about the state Board of Higher Education, New England School of Law and Suffolk Law School. UMass has proposed merging UMass-Dartmouth and Southern New England School of Law, the state board plans to vote on March 31. Wilson is irritated because the board has distributed negative reports about the proposal seemingly in cahoots with NESL and Suffolk. Suffolk University Law School and......

Though politics in our fair city are often quite divisive, what better way is there to get political enemies to the same table than the St. Paddy's day holiday? Every year, South Boston State Senator Jack Hart sponsors a brunch on the Sunday following the holiday, which rather than bringing true unity, often takes the tone of a Friar's Club Roast. Headlined by such political notables as the sitting Governor, Attorney General, and Boston......

As former Vermont Governor Howard Dean said “Not only are we going to New Hampshire, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York…Yearrrah.” Words that marked the primary cycle of the 2004 election ring true for Governor Mitt Romney. He traveled to South Carolina yesterday to deliver a speech to over 300 republican audience members. The political process......

The Stem Cell debate has come to the Hub. As expected Senator Ted Kennedy is butting heads with Governor Mitt Romney. The Governor opposes the expanded use of embryonic stem cells in research for moral reasons. His claim that you must create life and then discard it, this, he claims, would put us closer to "barbarism." Kennedy is working at the federal level with a bill that would lift the ban on funding for the......