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• Mass. Maritime 2, Pirates 0. [Boston Globe]

• While Governor Deval Patrick and Speaker Robert A. DeLeo bicker, the fate of an education bill, not to mention $250 million in federal stimulus funds, is up in the air. [Boston Herald]

• According to the University of Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, corporate use of social media - Twitter, Facebook, etc. - has increased greatly in the past three years. []

The Globe reports that attorney general Martha Coakley has finally gotten involved in the Kineavy email scandal. The U.S. Senate candidate said that her office was now "inovlved" in the effort "to determine whether there have been any violations of the public records law by [Boston] City officials.

Attention: Boston Globe. The crucial issues in the 2009 Senate election to replace Ted Kennedy do not include show tunes and men's clothing. Saturday's piece on Michael Capuano paints him as a Kennedy type of liberal. He says he is the financial underdog among the four Democratic candidates. Oh, he's also switching to long-sleeve shirts. The Globe's Andrea Estes said he looked "uncomfortable" in his suit. On Friday, Matt Viser reported that Martha Coakley referenced the Rodgers and Hammerstein song "I Enjoy Being A Girl" in an answer to a question about the role of gender in the campaign. After analyzing some of the lyrics, he concluded "Coakley seems unlikely to use it as a campaign theme song." Journalism!

• Senator John Kerry included a $20 million earmark in a Defense Department bill to fund the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. [Boston Globe]

• Martha Coakley spent lots of cash gearing up for a Senate bid even before there was an open seat to run for. [Boston Herald]

• Congressman Michael Capuano will announce on Friday that he is running for Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat. Capuano said he waited to join the race out of respect for Sen. Kennedy. [Boston Herald]

• With Mass. Attorney General/Senate candidate Martha Coakley now supporting the appointment of a temporary Senator to replace Ted Kennedy and momentum growing to change the law to allow it, former Governor Michael Dukakis is being seen as a leading choice for the interim appointment. [Boston Globe]

           

Bostonist Flickr contributor A.P. Donovan attended the Boston Labor Day Health Care Rally and took this series of great snaps. The Globe estimated the crowd at 1,000 or more, and it included several high profile office-seekers, including prospective Senate candidates (and current Attorney General and U.S. Representative, respectively) Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano and Boston mayoral candidate (and current Mayor) Thomas Menino. The crowd gathered on the Boston Common for speeches and marched to Copley Square to continue the rally.

As rumors of Schilling dance in the air, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has officially declared her candidacy to temporarily take over the late Edward Kennedy's Senate seat. Other possible candidates include Democratic representatives Michael Capuano and Stephen Lynch, as well as Republicans Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, and state Sen. Scott Brown. We wonder how much the hubbub over Teddy's seat will detract from the mayoral race, with primaries on September 22.

• A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on I-495 in Mansfield near Route 140 around 11 a.m. on Tuesday after experiencing engine failure. According to Mansfield EMS personnel, both passengers said they were not hurt. [WCVB]

• Earlier today, Bostonist detailed plans that might allow Governor Patrick to pick an interim Senator until the special election in January. Martha Coakley appears to be running for the permanent seat regardless of that. [ Boston Globe]

David Fioravanti wasn't the Biggest Loser when he competed on the reality TV show in 2005, but he did win $100,000 by losing the greatest percentage of body weight (he started out at 260) after being eliminated in week 5 of the show. He took a stab at being a motivational speaker, but something--possibly rumors about racial slurs--stepped in his way. So he did what any "loser" would do--resorted to crime. The Herald reports that Fioravanti was arrested on five counts of motor vehicle insurance fraud, two counts of insurance fraud, larceny over $250, attempted larceny over $250, and making a false statement on a motor vehicle registration, according to the office of the attorney general. The car insurance fraud is related to registering his car at his mother's address, while the other insurance fraud is the result of him twice attempting to take out and cash in an insurance policies on jewelry that had already been stolen, even trying to insure a ring for $10,000 more than its initial worth. That's a big gain, but it seems Fioravanti might come out with a loss. He's scheduled to be arraigned on November 4.

--A fire happened at Fenway Park this morning while construction workers were removing a temporary luxury suite. The fire was quickly put out, and no one was hurt. [WBZ] --A cousin of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley died Friday night in a fire in her Hyannis home. [Boston Globe] --The Air Force has found that Cape Wind wouldn't impact one of its radar stations. In an impressive NIMBY effort, Representative William Delahunt wanted to...

The state Cultural Facilities Fund was generous this year, giving $16.7 million to various arts-related groups. The Citi Performing Arts Center was not one of them, largely because they seem to have their priorities mixed up when it comes to handling their funds. The Citi Performing Arts Center was going to get $600,000, but that amount has been, in the words of the Globe, "tabled." The Citi Performing Arts Center had tried to improve its...

Former MIT professor and business whiz John Donovan Sr. has been found guilty for staging his own shooting in 2005, wasting a hell of a lot of Cambridge's time, and irritating state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Supposedly, his motive for such weird behavior was that he wanted to get revenge on his son by saying his son had hired Russian hit men to kill him. Donovan went on trial last week for filing a false...

Boston.com reports that Attorney General Martha Coakley will soon announce the indictment of Powers Fastener, a New York based glue manufacturer. Powers Fastener allegedly supplied the low-creep resistant adhesive that the Big Dig used to "affix" ceiling panels to the I-90 Connector Tunnel's interior. The indictment will charge the glue company with criminal negligence in the death of Milena Del Valle, who was killed when the tunnel's ceiling fell onto her car last year....

All of Fung Wah's accidents were kind of cute, in a twisted sort of way. Fung Wah is the cheap transportation of choice for all the cool kids wanting to get out of town. But Fung Wah's latest scrape with the law isn't cute at all. Fung Wah must pay a blind couple $50,000 because the company wouldn't let the couple take its seeing-eye dog on the bus. Fung Wah must also cough up a...

--Sean Stevens and Peter Berdvosky can breathe a sigh of relief now that they are officially off the blotter with a slap on the wrist. The artists who were hired by the Cartoon Network and Interference, Inc., to hang the Mooninites throughout Boston will do community service. Instead of offering the public another '70s hair comedy routine, the two had more substantial things to say this time around. The Herald quoted Stevens as saying, "I...

We recently received e-mails proudly announcing the impending arrival of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters on April 13. Even if you didn't notice the - ahem - little problem promotions for the ATHF movie caused in Boston, and even if you've never heard of ATHF, the movie sounds like fun, and the full-length cartoon features the voices of Bruce Campbell and Neil Peart of Rush.

Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today that the Boston area cut a deal with Turner Broadcasting and Interference, Inc., the brains behind the marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theatres that made life in Boston a little nutty last week. Boston will receive $2 million dollars for its trouble. In return, Turner Broadcasting and Interference won't face charges. Here's the basic breakdown - $1 million goes to reimbursing state and...

For whatever reason, nothing captures the national imagination like the trials of handsome young men who kill their families. So expect Massachusetts to be propelled into the national spotlight for a while now that Neil Entwistle, the British man whose wife and infant child were found shot to death in the family's Hopkinton home a few weeks ago, has finally been arrested and is being brought back to the United States from England. Entwistle turned...

Remember when Tom Reilly was just a run-of-the-mill, blowhard, establishment Democrat whose judgment we were starting to question because he used his office to do favors for friends (and possibly interfere with a criminal investigation along the way)? Bostonist does, and man, those were the days. Yesterday, when revelations of Marie St. Fleur's financial problems came to the fore, Bostonist was still willing to suppose that the AG could pull this thing out with a little creative spin. St. Fleur, apparently, did not have so much confidence, so the Lieutenant-Governor-candidate-for-a-day withdrew. Bringing Reilly back to where he started, except worse.

State Senator Jarrett Barrios seems to have some magic political mojo that makes things go his way. As though it weren’t enough that Tom Reilly’s shot at governor will allow Middlesex DA Martha Coakley to run for Attorney General, which will, in turn, allow Barrios a chance to run for DA in his home county, Barrios, being gay, married, and eloquent, has obtained quite a high profile as the (oh-so-handsome) face of gay marriage in...

Our Senator may have lost the presidential race, but Massachusetts is nevertheless solidifying its control over the rest of the country: Our old pal Bill Weld is getting more press coverage than he has in years as New York Republicans consider whether to nominate him if their current governor, George Pataki, doesn't run again. The New York Times tells us that Weld, who now lives in Manhattan, has been looking to get back into politics...