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Gothamist heard more about Governor Paterson's many multiplying problems while dolphins frolicked in the East River.
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The starfish population is booming, and that's probably not be good news. [Boston Globe]
A beaver is dividing a Medford brook and members of the neighborhood. [Boston Globe]
The 88-year-old woman who ran over a 4-year-old Stoughton girl won't be driving again. [Boston Channel]
Don't expect to see same-sex marriage in Rhode Island for at least another year. [The Advocate]
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- John Kerry is visiting the Sudan ahead of a national referendum in January that could split the country in two. [The Hill]
- A Boston firefighter was injured by an electrical shock during a four-alarm fire in Allston. Eight residents were displaced. [Boston Globe]
Judge Joseph L. Tauro ruled today in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Commonwealth v. United States Department of Health and Human Services that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, based largely on principles of equal protection under the law for all parties and states' rights to determine issues not governed by the constitution. Tuoro called the ability to define marriage "an essential element of state power." The decision not only upholds the rights of states like Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa, and of course our fine pioneering selves to recognize gay marriage, but also may suggest that those marriages could someday be recognized in other states as well. We just look forward to the day when marriage can be marriage, with no "gay" or "same sex" or "straight" or other adjectives involved—except maybe "happy." [Globe]
- Gothamist watched the State Senate reject gay marraige legislation supported by the Governor and State Assembly. The small silver lining was State Senator Diane Savino's impassioned speech -- "We have nothing to fear from love and commitment."
Voters in New England's least appealing state told approximately one tenth of its population that it could go f*ck itself but without the sanction of marriage. Maine, also home to Olympia Snowe, did not include a trigger option in its narrow repeal of the state's same-sex marriage law. [Globe]
Congratulations to Maine, which has become the fifth state in the nation to legalize same sex marriage. It's the fourth state in New England to proclaim marriage equality, joining a bloc that includes Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Maine follows Vermont as the second state to legalize marriage through legislation, and its governor, unlike Vermont's, signed the bill into law. [BBC]
Last week, we wondered "WTF, Vermont?" when we heard the news that Governor Jim Douglas planned to veto the bill that would legalize same-sex marriage. Well, he did. But, in a dramatic show of awesomeness, the Vermont House of Representatives voted to override the veto, 100-49. Vermont is the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage and the first to do so through an act of legislature.
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