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The T station at Government Center will be getting a makeover that's scheduled to be completed in 2015. (And Bostonist can't help singing Jonathan Richman.) [Boston Herald]
The State Street T station is almost complete -- only four years behind schedule. [Boston Globe]
After 40 years of music, Harpers Ferry is expected to close at the end of the month. [Boston Herald]
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Something that's neither a rum drink or college footballer is headed in our direction. [WHDH]
Hide the trashy ladies! Tiger Woods is in town, and the PGA is concerned about a weather delay. [All Headline News]
After hanging out at the UFC Fan Expo and Harvard Square, Shaq is now "The Big Wedding Crasher". [NESN]
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Based on today's FBI raids, it looks like the "Times Square Bomber" had ties to the Boston area. [Boston Globe]
After a four-year ban, hazardous materials will soon be trucking through the North End again. [Boston Globe]
The broken water clamp that is about 10 feet in diameter and weighs a ton has not been found yet. [Boston Globe]
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There will be about 4% less people do a price check at Shaw's. [Boston Globe]
Some Mass mortgageholders will get some relief from a-holes formerly known as Countrywide. [Worcester Telegram]
Not a good week for the Cahill campaign: A company that held a fundraiser on his behalf had a conflict of interest and was fined by the SEC. [Boston Herald]
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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.
Pols love a parade. Usually. Candidates for public office are fixtures at parades from Fourth of July to St. Patrick's Day. Columbus Day in East Boston? Not so much.
Republican Charlie Baker will appear on WCVB’s "On the Record" (OTR) on Sunday. Clips of the interview are already available on the WickedLocal.com Massachusetts Politics Blog.
Governor Deval Patrick is fond of saying the 2010 gubernatorial campaign is a choice between different values. Bostonist would love to see an honest debate on what each candidate values in government. Lately, the candidates' exchanges have converted into lawsuits, dirty tricks, insults, and general weirdness. And we found that all on one page (see above) at the Herald's website. We love that the Herald is so concise and reliable in its tawdriness.
Governor Deval Patrick says he won't hire Tim Cahill if he is reelected in November. Patrick endorsed his current team, and said he plans on keeping them. Patrick respects Cahill, but won't give him a government job.
We know Tim Cahill isn't leaving the governor's race despite running mate Fredo Paul Loscocco ditching Cahill for Charlie Baker. The Independent candidate has actually gotten more aggressive.
Garrett Quinn wants Tim Cahill to drop out of the governor's race. He really wants Deval Patrick to lose, and thinks Cahill's continued candidacy works against that. He might gets his wish as Cahill's got a 2 p.m. press conference today.
Charlie Baker leads in one poll, Deval Patrick in another. Regardless, it's a tight gubernatorial race.
- Two top aides to Tim Cahill quit his campaign, saying he can't win. Cahill still vows to keep running. [WBUR]
- The Republican Governors Association invested $2 million in ads supporting GOP gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker. [AP via Google]
We aren't sure if any voters found what they were looking for in last night's debate. Unless you were looking for insults and mudslinging, and then you were in luck.
Look for Gov. Deval Patrick to act like a frontrunner as a new poll has him leading Republican Charles Baker, 41-34. We thought that sounded cool. We assume Patrick is happy he's winning, though.
Massachusetts' lawmakers have been unable to agree on how to bring casino gambling to the Bay State for, well, awhile. Everyone has their own plan, but they share an assumption that casinos mean jobs. Do they? Or, did they just forget what happens when you assume? Lawmakers - - should observe the latest news out of Foxwoods. According to Boston Business Journal, Foxwoods' slot revenue dropped to $59.2 million in August, a 6.3% decline in slot win compared to August 2009. Foxwoods says the decline is a result of "prolonged economic conditions."
Despite having no contested primary elections, gubernatorial candidates still got attention.
Political season is upon us and so are endorsements.
- Tim Cahill left the Democratic party to run for governor as an Independent candidate. He still plans to vote in the Democratic primary next week. [Boston Herald]
- Karyn Polito is a Republican candidate for treasurer in Massachusetts. She supports a ballot question to cut the state sales tax to 3%. If it passes, Polito wants to raise it back to 5%. For and against tax cuts all at once. [Boston Herald]
We're thrilled that Republican Charlie Baker saw fit to link his campaign to a classic American comedy like . (We planned to suggest Ted Underhill until we realized he is currently deceased.)
- State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill's campaign committee failed to pay about $15,000 in state income taxes. Does his campaign need a new treasurer? [Boston Globe]
- A report from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office determined CEO Paul Levy's "inappropriate personal relationship" "endangered" the reputation of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. [MassHighTech.com]
- A commuter rail station in Chelsea is inaccessible to commuters in wheelchairs. [WCVB]
Curt Schilling retires and he's still able to gobble up headlines. The latest?
- Citing the layoff this week of 23 Lawrence firefighters, the Professional Firefighters of Massachusetts is asking for "a public safety state of emergency" in the city from Gov. Deval Patrick. [Lawrence Eagle Tribune]
- DeLuca's Market on Charles Street in Beacon Hill was damaged in a fire Thursday. The market has been in the same spot for over 100 years. Pictures. [Boston Globe]
Incompetent State Treasurer and future gubernatorial also-ran Tim Cahill is on a one-man mission to make Scott Brown look like a moderate, Massachusetts Republican. The man who once proclaimed that the state should lose a frivolous, lunatic lawsuit is now courting another group of lunatics by equating Muslims with terrorists. Cahill's job has long been assured by his lackadaisical attitude toward political patronage, but how many racists does he think Massachusetts has? This latest stunt has caused us to consider the imponderable: that Cahill is a Democratic plant designed to wedge fringe voters away from mild-mannered rich guy Charles Baker.
- With the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency stating that the southeastern part of the state facing the worst of possible flooding, 700 National Guard members were activated to help. [Boston Herald]
- This is the wettest March ever. How do reporters uncover these scoops? [WBZ]
- Our latest storm might force Rhode Island to close parts of I-95. [WPRI.com]
- Streets in Fall River are flooded and damaged, especially Mt. Hope Avenue. Pictures. [WBZ]
A great piece of investigative journalism in yesterday's Globe. A group of Northeastern journalism students, with the help of professor Walter V. Robinson, got the goods on our least favorite State Treasurer Tim Cahill. It turns out that cagey Cahill received a pile of campaign donations from out-of-state investors who just so happened to end up with a brand new infusion of investment money from the Massachusetts pension fund! Nothing illegal, of course, but it's all very, very shady. [Globe]
Tim Cahill, incompetent treasurer and independent candidate for governor, had a pow-wow with the Herald in which he slammed Obama's health care bill and said that Mitt Romney's health care reform in Massachusetts has failed.