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Last Sunday, Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey fired off a memo to the Legislature announcing that she would veto the Bicycle Safety Bill, which was established to do exactly what its title suggests.

Bostonist reported last Monday on a rare display of civility in Massachusetts politics. We also predicted that in no time at all, that civility would end. Well, we were right.

The Somerville Police Department has had quite a shake-up lately. For much of the last year, former Police Chief George McClean had been clashing with Mayor Joe Curtatone -- most notably over a report commissioned by the mayor which criticized the department for being disorganized and poorly led. That very public dispute eventually led to the forced resignation of Chief McClean and the Mayor's appointment of a review board to oversee drastic changes in the way department leadership is picked.

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Bostonist was startled last week when the Cambridge Chronicle published an article listing the ten ugliest buildings In Cambridge. Topping the list was the new Stata Center at MIT, designed by world-renowed modernist architect Frank Gehry. Apparently, we weren't the only ones taken back by this nudge to the experimental and visually stimulating building placed in the center of the otherwise drab industrial park. This past week, the Chronicle reported on a class of...

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...