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• A year after their well-publicized confrontation, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley were both blamed for the incident. An independent Cambridge review committee determined the incident was “avoidable” and each man had “opportunities" to avoid what took place. [WCVB]

• Beth Singer, the Provincetown School Superintendent, issued a public apology for the school's new condom policy. She pledged to revise the policy. [Cape Cod Times]

--Old hotness: Late trains on the Worcester-Framingham line. New hotness: Changing the timetables so they don't look late anymore. [WBZ] more ›

--Are you a smoker? House Speaker Sal DiMasi and Senate President Therese Murray are considering raising the cigarette tax. [Boston Globe] more ›

Deval Patrick has been making news lately with the State of the Commonwealth and his public support of presidential candidate Barack Obama. But what of Massachusetts' other top dog, Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi? Bostonist read Paul McMorrow's lengthy Boston Magazine profile of the Speaker of the House and found the article too interesting not to sum up. more ›

State legislators are busy people. Once elected, they have to figure out how to keep their jobs, how to get re-elected, how to advance, and how to keep their peers from stabbing them in the back. (Presumably, they govern in the midst of all that. Oh, who are we kidding?) more ›