The Boston Globe is reporting on “breaking news” that Supreme Judicial Court Justice Francis Spina held a hearing on the sale of the Caritas Christi Heath Care system to Cerberus Capital Management today. Justice Spina signed-off on the transaction tranferring the assets of a non-profit entity to a for-profit entity. This was the…
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Computerworld on-line notes that the “broadband stimulus program” wasn’t created just to bring broadband to underserved rural areas but it was also designed to create education centers to teach and train people to access and use the Web. There has been a particular need for such centers in cities…
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Tony Sampas brings to a close two weeks’ worth of images of Lowell signage with these shots of Merrimack Rug and Linoleum at 297 Market Street.
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A new Suffolk University poll released late last night shows Deval Patrick with the same size lead over Charlie Baker has been seen in other recent polls. According to Suffolk, among likely voters, Patrick has 46% to Baker’s 39% and Cahill’s 9%. The leader of Suffolk’s polling operation, David Paleologos,…
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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Condoleezza Rice was in Boston yesterday promoting her new family memoir, Extraordinary, Ordinary People. Often lampooned on Saturday Night Live, the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush is anything but a stick figure. She is charming,…
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Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
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The Globe is reporting in a “Political Intelligence” on-line post by Stephanie Vallejo that State Senator Jamie Eldridge (D) of Acton plans to refile a bill that would lessen the impact in Massachusetts state elections of the U. S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of Citizens United. The recent ruling basically allows…
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The big national lenders that halted foreclosure activities two weeks ago have now resumed after their self-scrutiny of the documentation related to mortgages that are to be foreclosed. The efficacy of this review is questionable; if it’s anything like the degree of care these same companies brought to granting the…
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Thanks to Globe reporters Courtney Hollands and Nicole Cammorata for suggestions for last-minute Halloween costumes in today’s Boston Globe Calendar. Unfortunately, the photo was not included online. You have to see the hard copy of the paper for the full effect—the yoga mat is worn like a serape and marked…
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