Republican Bill Hudak is suing his Democratic opponent in the Sixth Congressional District race, Representative John Tierney. Hudak wants an emergency restraining order to stop Tierney from running television ads that Hudak says misrepresent his positions on mortgage interest deductions and other issues. Suing an opponent over mortgage interest deductions seems dramatic. We don't know if the suit has more to do with those Obama signs or not.
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Someone hung an effigy of President Obama by its feet at the Central Falls school where the teachers were fired. [WPRI]
The D Line should be fully operational by Monday morning. So let's hope for Tuesday evening. [Newton Tab]
Ever wonder if Evacuation Day might actually celebrate something else? The original bill was signed in green ink. [Boston Globe]
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Senator Kennedy is taking his final drive around Boston. [Boston Globe]
President Obama is scheduled to eulogize Kennedy at his funeral. [Washington Post]
Tropical Storm Danny is approaching. [Milford Daily News]
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Shh... The President and his family are vacationing on the Vineyard. [Martha's Vineyard Times]
Former Gov. Cellucci supports restoring the gubernatorial power to appoint a temporary Senator. [Boston Herald]
A local firm won't divulge the "secret ingredient" in their solar-power system. [SmartPlanet]
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Massachusetts tax collection drops in May. [Boston Business Journal]
Brookline is bothered by Big Brother. [Boston Globe]
Rumors are that a Beatle (that doesn't kill trees) is coming to Fenway Park in August. [Boston Herald]
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We saw a Giant Inflatable Rat drive by in downtown Boston today, but aren't sure why. Anyone have the scoop?
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Somerville catches Obama Fever, since the President-elect spent his Harvard Law days in Winter Hill. [Boston Herald]
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Last week, a soldier became the first Iraq casualty from Framingham. Sgt. Scott J. Metcalf suffered "non-combat-related injuries," and his death is being investigated. [Metrowest Daily News]
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Obama has an auntie in Southie who lives in public housing. [Boston Globe]
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Microsoft opened a new research facility in Cambridge. Perhaps they'll eventually get "Obama" into Word's spell-check. [Mass High Tech]
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-- President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango will appear in U.S. Immigration Court tomorrow in Boston to appeal an earlier ruling that denied her political asylum. Onyango, a native of Kenya, will also be asked to bring Obama's birth certificate to the hearing. That last part is a joke. [Globe]
-- Even bikes are getting into the spring of things. [Chic Cyclist]
In the Shepard Fairey exhibit which opens today for the general public at the Institute of Contemporary Art, there is a quotation by Andy Warhol, one of Fairey’s main influences if not his most important.
Shepard Fairey, he of the ubiquitous Obama poster, is coming to the ICA this week. On Thursday, he’ll introduce a new exhibit, “Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand”, and give a talk at 6:30pm. The lecture is sold out already, but you can still catch a glimpse of the artist as he takes over the decks on Friday, Feb. 6 for the next installment of the ICA’s “Experiment”, the museum’s art event-slash-dance party. (Tickets available in advance: $25 general admission; $20 members, students, and seniors, 21+ only).
-- Celebrate the start to Obama's presidency in a tasty way with inauguration cupcakes. [Beantown Baker]
-- In an effort to make bees even bigger pricks, scientists give them coke. A dance party ensues. [Pax Arcana]
Political Blogger sees "Big Picture" at Globe: Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo gave some props to the Boston Globe's photo blog. In a brief entry, he wrote:
-- For the veterans, there's a new social networking site just for you. [Community of Veterans]
I was recently saddened by her rejection from the Massachusetts-based Ghost Hunters group. They said their reasoning had something to do with my exclusive obsession with vampires and other cryptozoological phonomea didn't really fit into their mission of hunting down the after-beings of salors reeking mildew and decaying seaweed.
-- Find a debate-watching party on Obama's site. (Feature not available on McCain's site.) [Obama for America]
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The Boston Herald today--in sadly predictable fashion--posted online an article of theirs about a local Youtube star without anywhere linking to the Youtube video in question. (They do have their own embedded version of the video, but this Bostonist couldn't get it to load, and the whole premise of the piece is the unlikely Youtube stardom of a Natick toddler.)