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--Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub was on NPR this week to discuss Boston Crime, which tracks violent crime on a Google map and allows people to comment on cases. A must-listen. They describe him as a "computer guy by day, crime chronicler by night." [NPR]

Apologies for the lateness of this one.

--Deval Patrick boosted the payroll for his own staff by $1.1 million. The Herald is not amused. [Boston Herald] --Speaking of not being amused, Outraged Liberal is appropriately outraged at the Herald for some fuzzy math regarding the news bit mentioned above. [Massachusetts Liberal] --King Downing, an official with the ACLU who specializes in fighting racial profiling, suing the Massachusetts Port Authority and the Massachusetts State Police. He was hassled while leaving the airport, and...

Boston University is willing to spend big bucks--$1.8 billion, to be exact--to be an academic powerhouse. Linda Wertheimer at the Globe reported Thursday that BU wants to "add 150 professors, dramatically lower the school's student-faculty ratio, and pour money into salaries to allow BU to vie for the nation's top professors." Not bad. You go, BU. President Robert Brown has visions of US News & World Report college rankings dancing in his head. However, if...

Back in 1620 Myles Standish and his motley crew of puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. In 2002 Mitt Romney brought some Latter Day Saints into the State House here in Boston. In 2006 a group of students now attending Harding University in Arkansas hope to found a new church in Boston, or, well, it seems Quincy is now top on the list. Boston Church Plant has been developing plans to plant Christian values here in the Hub with a new church. In the often oxymoronic ethos of Massachusetts Bostonist is sure that they will be both well received and shunned.