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We can't believe we didn't enter, but somehow the deadline for the essay contest for Mitt Romney's Free and Strong America PAC passed us by. Not to worry, plenty of intrepid folks poured their hearts out on paper, answering the question "What does a free and strong America mean to you?" Some of them even won. Nobody from Massachusetts made the cut, naturally, but a Mainer got honorable mention for writing a poem instead of an essay. Sample stanza:

• The Boston Licensing Board met today to decide if the South Street Diner should continue to operate 24 hours after a mere 60 years of already doing it. [UniversalHub]

• Not even six months have passed since president Barack Obama took office and Rasmussen thinks we want to know that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are leading the "race" for he 2012 GOP nomination? [Boston Herald]

The city of Boston and the men who fill the ranks of the Boston Fire Department simply can't get along. Contract disputes have long since gone nuclear and now any controversy turns into a five-alarm blaze of rhetoric and posturing perfectly designed for the city's competitive media outlets.

Mitt has put two of his mansions up for sale. Hair tonic not included in asking price. [Globe]

• Tuition stays steady, but fees may increase. [Globe]
• Lose $8 billion, lose your job. Harvard fires endowment workers. [Herald]
• Everyone should be very concerned when an athlete smokes marijuana at a time when he is not athletically competing. [NYT]

The Romney camp is denying claims that former campaigners staffers are attacking Sarah Palin. Various sources have reported that former Romney supporters (and even Romney himself) were critical of Palin but forced to keep their opinions under wraps during the campaign. Those making the accusations against Romney and his staff say the former Massachusetts governor is attacking Palin in the interest of promoting his own presidential chances in 2012. In public, Romney has defended Palin, saying "She has been able to keep cool under the pressure” during the campaign process. 40 percent of Herald readers would like to see Romney run in 2012; 24 percent would go for Palin.

Gail Collins' recent op-ed in the New York Times waxes nostalgic about the old days of the presidential campaign, before we lost Mitt Romney and met Sarah Palin:

Let's face it: No one really expected presidential candidate John McCain and aspiring presidential candidate/former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to kiss and make up. But McCain surprised everyone by choosing Alaska governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

With Teddy and the Clintons behind him, Barack Obama now needs only for the Republicans to shoot themselves in their finely-clad feet--by having an inordinate amount of homes, making light of bombing, not knowing about the economy, and being computer illiterate. Or, since that's apparently not enough, by picking Mitt Romney as VP. Some Massachusetts pols think the Romster would be the kiss of death for the Republican party, and offer up critiques such as "How can you be the party of the people when your two representatives would not know poverty if it sat in front of them?” (Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons) and “We’d tell him to go home, if we knew which home he was coming from" (Massachusetts Democratic Party chair John Walsh). Burn!

The House of Representatives has voted 118-35 to strike down the state's 1913 law that prevents people from getting married here if they couldn't legally get married in their home state. Originally passed as a way of preventing uppity interracial couples from coming here for a quickie wedding, it looked like one of those quaint and ridiculous "no putting squirrels down your pants for the purpose of gambling" laws. Until it became relevant again, when Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriage. Now, gay couples from Alaska to Arkansas can come here, get legally married, and then go home and try to get their own states to recognize it. Critics like former Governor Mitt Romney say this will turn Massachusetts into the "Las Vegas of gay marriage"; proponents, seeing how much moolah flows in and out of Vegas (mostly in) on a daily basis, wonder why exactly that's a bad thing. The repeal now needs to be signed by Gov. Patrick, but he seems enthusiastic about doing so.

Sources say Mitt Romney is near the top of John McCain's vice presidential running mate list. If Obama picked Patrick (not looking at all likely), we'd have quite the Massachusetts Governor showdown in the elections. Some say businessman Romney would provide the economic knowledge McCain seems to lack; others point out that Romney's not been nearly as successful in business as someone like Michael Bloomberg (even though Bloomberg was once targeted as a possible Obama pick--gah!). McCain needs to get positive (or at least non-negative) press soon; he might just make an announcement to reclaim the headlines from Obama's world travels.

--The investigation into why a commuter rail train crashed into a loose boxcar in Canton, injuring 150, is turning toward brakes not being set on a car at a lumberyard in Stoughton. Also, even if the train was on the loose, "The car should have been stopped by a derailing device where the siding meets the main track. A source close to the investigation said the derailing device worked properly when tested Wednesday morning and passed its most recent inspection." [The Enterprise of Brockton]

--The Red Sox just broke up with Mirabelli ... we are processing this. It is hard.

--The factory that exploded in Danvers just happened to have more than twice the approved amount of flammable materials. [Boston Herald]

--So, just how many new construction jobs will the casinos proposed by Governor Deval Patrick create? He said 30,000. An independent analyst says no way: "... building three casinos at a cost of $1 billion each in Massachusetts would create a total of 4,000 to 5,000 new construction jobs for the duration of the building period, probably three years." [Boston Globe]

--A judge set the bail for Damion Jamaal-Anthony Haley, the man who allegedly fired a gun into a crowd of brawling partygoers at Aria over the weekend, at $1 million. [WBZ]

--Are you freaking out over the fact that the St. Patrick's Day parade falls on the same day as Palm Sunday, March 16? 'Cause the press sure seems to be making a fuss. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]

Elections are expensive this year, and it turns out that former Massachusetts governor and former presidential aspirant Mitt Romney paid a pretty penny for each delegate he received before dropping out of the race.

--MBTA General Manager Dan Grabauskas has received plenty of angry e-mails in his time, and should be able to take some serious heat. But he is furious about an e-mail from a Department of Corrections employee that got way too personal. Grabauskas is gay, and the e-mailer used anti-gay slurs about Grabauskas when describing MBTA service. Now Grabauskas is upset with Deval Patrick and his administration for not doing something about it sooner. The employee has been suspended. [Boston Herald]

--Word is out that former House Speaker and current WRKO radio-show host is going to drop his plans to become a lobbyist, finally realizing that lobbying while being a talking head might be a conflict of interest. Adam G. joked, "The WRKO job must pay more." [Boston Globe, Universal Hub]

A few days ago, everyone cared about the Commonwealth. Senator McCain was here, Senator Obama was here, Senator Clinton was in Worcester, the Kennedys were everywhere. Now we won't even have our ex-governor parading around the country insulting us. It all happened so fast.

We meant it as a joke when we said that former Romney aide Jay Garrity was the only one on the team having a good week. But it might be true. WBZ is reporting that Romney is "suspending" his campaign.

within the Romney campaign got some good news after Super Tuesday. DA Dan Conley announced that he won't press charges against former Romney aide Jay Garrity.

Is it a coincidence that the only Massachusetts city to give the majority vote to Huckabee in the Republican primary was Salem, our Commonwealth's -- lo, our nation's -- proud mecca of witchcraft? We thinketh not!

Republican presidential aspirant and former Massachsuetts governor Mitt Romney is the projected winner of the state of Massachusetts over John McCain this Super Tuesday, according to CNN. And that victory was by no means a given since Romney didn't exactly leave Massachusetts wanting more.