The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination said a man with HIV/AIDS should be able to keep his emotional support dog after his landlord said hemust get rid of it. Three Boston scientists will get $750,000 each over three years in grants for cancer research. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
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It's the deadline to file your income taxes unless you live in a county that was rain-soaked in March. [Boston Globe]
For better or worse, casino gambling in the Bay State has cleared its first legislative hurdle. [WBUR]
We may not get to say this again: Iceland's volcanic activity has canceled flights in and out of Logan. [Boston Herald]
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There will be about 4% less people do a price check at Shaw's. [Boston Globe]
Some Mass mortgageholders will get some relief from a-holes formerly known as Countrywide. [Worcester Telegram]
Not a good week for the Cahill campaign: A company that held a fundraiser on his behalf had a conflict of interest and was fined by the SEC. [Boston Herald]
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After a few weeks in Afghanistan, a New Hampshire teen soldier was killed on Friday. [Union Leader or WMUR]
Film editor and longtime Boston resident Karen Schmeer died over the weekend when she was hit by robbery getaway car in Manhattan. [Boston Globe]
An off-duty firefighter perished when his own home burned down. [Martha's Vineyard Times]
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After winning a $675k judgement against a BU grad student, they're attacking him for stuff happening in Sweden. [Ars Technica]
Green Line trains don't need texting conductors to derail at Government Center. [Boston Herald]
Gloucester's water system hasn't been safe to use for weeks. [Gloucester Daily Times]
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Sal DiMasi convinced a judge he can't pay his legal bills. We get to pay them for him. Chuck Turner begins his prison term today at the Hazelton Federal Prison in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
A dog owned by a Wrentham family was killed by a car. The family was billed almost $800 by the driver's insurance for damage to the car. The insurance company dropped the payment demand. According to Boston.com, Tom Brady is the best player in Boston. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Massachusetts is losing 1,100 jobs over the next two years as Fidelity Investments closes its Marlboro facility and moves those workers to to Smithfield, Rhode Island, Merrimack, New Hampshire and other locations. Marlboro workers fill operations and technology jobs and don't work directly with customers. Spokeswoman Anne Crowley said Fidelity lost 8,000 jobs in the last couple of years and Marlboro was not at "full capacity." They plan to sell that property. Smithfield, Rhode Island already is home to 2,700 jobs. Merrimack, New Hampshire has 4,600 employees. [Globe]
Business is happening all over New England:
- Scott Brown has a job he wants to keep, and so does Rachel Maddow. Despite denials, Brown suggested Maddow wants his job in order to help him keep it. [Boston Globe]
- A group of 100+ marchers took to Federal Street yesterday afternoon looking for more job-creation lending from banks like Bank of America. [Universal Hub]
- Massachusetts might be out of the recession before other states thanks to the education and health care sectors. WCVB also provided a list of the Bay State's Top 50 Largest Employers.[WCVB]
You know you've always wanted to. Now, you can get paid for it. That's right—Oscar Mayer is hiring Wienermobile drivers. You don't have to sing the company jingle as well as a cute little kid, but you do need an outgoing personality, an enthusiasm for wieners (and other Oscar Mayer products), and a college degree—"preferably in public relations, journalism, communications, advertising, or marketing." A driver's license presumably helps as well. The company is accepting "reumés" through January 31, 2009—looks like they could use a copyeditor as well. If you're selected for the coveted position of Wiener Operator, you'll attend Hot Dog High in Madison, WI; it's sure to be a crucial addition to the "Education" portion of your resume. If you're confident about your chances, you might want to start memorizing the Hotdogger Oath:
The Commonwealth's Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi has long been seen as the biggest obstacle in the way of Governor Deval Patrick's plan to build three luxury casinos in the Bay State. DiMasi lived up to that reputation yesterday by delivering a blistering attack against the governor's projections for how many jobs the initiative would create.
Governor Deval Patrick pitched his casino proposal yesterday at the State House.
Just when we got our hopes up that Mayor Thomas Menino had forgotten about his plans to move City Hall to South Boston, he declared yesterday that the move is still very much on his mind. Jay Fitzgerald reported that Menino spoke at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast yesterday, and he said that he'd like to sell the current City Hall space at Government Center and then use the money to move....
The last word that should be used to describe Boston is "cheap," but housing prices compared to New York City's are a steal. The cellist for the Magnetic Fields, Sam Davol, has moved his family up to a new pad in Boston's Chinatown above Jumbo Seafood Restaurant. Of course, "cheap" is relative. The New York Times did a piece on how Davol and his spouse decided a move to Boston would allow them to quit...
Some stories just sound like terrible jokes. But this one is all too real. WBZ reports that a priest from Boston got arrested last Friday for stalking Conan O'Brien. Pardon us for using the words "priest" and "hell" in the same post, but, seriously, what the hell? You couldn't make that up. And the Archdiocese of Boston took its own sweet time to release the news. They waited until today to announce that Reverend David...
Boston City Council: The four winners in the at-large race were incumbents Michael Flaherty, Stephen Murphy, Sam Yoon, and new arrival John Connolly. Incumbent Felix Arroyo didn't make the cut. Now Murphy and Connolly will need to figure out how to live with each other after Connolly's anonymous mailers, which accused Murphy of always looking for other jobs. Michael Pahre at Brighton Centered reports that Mark Ciommo defeated Greg Glennon for the District 9 slot...
If you walk through Cambridge, you would think that everyone is running for office based on the number of signs on residential streets. Finally, the day has arrived to vote for the city council and the school committee. There are nine open seats on the council, eight incumbents are running again, and several newbies want their jobs. The Cambridge Chronicle has a well-done list of profiles for each candidate. The big story of the election...
Did we ever get a wake-up call. Boston.com, the website for the Boston Globe has metamorphosed overnight. A little box on the right-hand side of the home page asks, "Notice anything different?" In case you didn't notice, the Globe has thrown in a letter to readers and an FAQ. The letter also mentioned what's coming--a "Things to Do" section. How that is different from the "Sidekick," the little insert that already explains things to do,...
--A man and his mother were shot while riding in a car yesterday in Dorchester. The Globe reports that Darnell Ricks Jr., 20, was hit in the arm, and his mother "appeared to have been grazed in the face by a bullet." Police have a detailed description of the alleged perps: "They were looking for three black males who appeared to be in their late teens and about 5 feet 8 inches tall. One wore...
--An 18-year-old screamed racist comments at BPD officers working Tuesday's Red Sox Rally. And then he tried to get out of it by saying he was a cousin of a State Representative. The BPD wasn't impressed. According to Michele McPhee, Peter Kouroujian was busted for drinking underage when he took out his anger on police: As police tried to remove Kouroujian, he allegedly screeched, “Hey, you (expletive). Why don’t you do some real police...
After much debate over whether or not the blue-and-yellow DIY furniture behemoth that is IKEA would be good for Somerville, IKEA has received permits to start building at Assembly Square. George Hassett at the Somerville News reports that construction will begin next summer, 10 years after IKEA first started making noise about moving in. That doesn't mean everyone's issues with the IKEA have been resolved. Somerville residents still want dibs on the jobs the IKEA...
We don't watch Wheel of Fortune any more - once they started spotting people five letters in the bonus round, the thrilling intellectual pursuit seemed to be missing. But we remember from childhood the portion of the show where the winning contestant got to pick out their winnings; the disembodied head floated in the upper-left corner of the screen, smiling and beaming as the camera panned all the marvelous prizes up for grabs. Which is...
The local college news has been depressing. One Globe editorial in particular sent Bostonist into a funk. While brainiacs with ordinary parents get denied at Harvard, the dumb but well-connected just waltz their way in, proving that the college admissions process is a skunky business. But Tufts offered a ray of light this week with the announcement that it will help students pay off their college loans if they take a job in public service....
The story of the drugs and alcohol found in the toxicology results for the bodies of firefighters Warren Payne and Paul Cahill has three threads--the freedom of the press, public safety, and the memory of the firefighters themselves. As noted earlier, all news outlets except WHDH reported yesterday and today about the toxicology results. WHDH couldn't report because Suffolk Superior Court Judge Merita Hopkins silenced them at the request of the firefighters' union. WHDH appealed,...
IKEA is already here, in Stoughton, but the blue-and-yellow behemoth might be moving even closer. The Somerville News reports that the Swedish store with the make-it-yourself furniture has applied to start construction in Assembly Square. The arrival of the store could mean good news (new jobs!) and bad news (ugly traffic). IKEA tries to be soothing, well-organized, and clever, but the long lines at IKEA and technical furniture difficulties tend to put individuals in a...
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and...