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• Mayor Menino wants to "take more risks" in the next four years. [Boston Globe]
• Flaherty and Yoon are keeping their options open. [Boston Globe]
• Town of Amherst votes to accept two Guantanamo Bay prisoners as residents -- if they're released. [Christian Science Monitor]
• One state official did such a poor job, she has been contracted to finish her work after being forced to resign. [Boston Globe]
• If it was up to a BU researcher, buses and trolleys would never be covered in Bacardi ads again. [WBUR]
• A gold star mother is halfway through Congress in hopes of being buried next to her Iraq veteran son -- presumably after she passes away. [Mansfield News]
• The Bay State's racing commission strikes down Raynham Park's request for dog racing in 2010. [Boston Herald]
• A Western Mass town attempts to clamp down on crazy cat ladies. [WHDH]
• You can watch a live streaming of this evening's U.N. Gaza Report discussion at Brandeis between Richard Goldstone and former Israeli ambassador Dore Gold. [Boston Globe]

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