Bill Maher interviewed Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick on his HBO "Real Time" show Friday. While the interview was ostensibly set up to promote Patrick's new book, it turned into a defense of President Obama and progressive policy.
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Although convicted of bribery, Chuck Turner is ready to get back to work on the City Council. [Dorchester Reporter]
The priest who stalked Conan O'Brien says he's fine and wants to get back to work, but the Boston Archdiocese is on Team Coco. [MyFoxBoston]
The contractor working on the exploding house has a record of safety violations. [Boston Channel]
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Vice President Joe Biden and Vicki Kennedy campaigned for William Keating in Quincy in his election against GOP candidate Jeff Perry, who campaigned in Scituate. [WCVB] Check out a summary of Question One. [WBZ]
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Charlie Baker is polling neck-and-neck with Gov. Patrick with about a month before the elections. [Boston Globe]
A Massachusetts man is planning to build an orphanage in Haiti to be named in honor of his daughter who died in the catastrophic earthquake. [WHDH]
A 3.1 earthquake, centered in New Hampshire, was felt around New England. [WMUR]
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President Obama and family are vacationing at Martha's Vineyard for the second year in a row. [ABC News]
Someone took a major fall at Fenway Park last night. Amazingly it was no one on the Sox roster. [WHDH]
Barbara Lynch's Menton has made Bon Appetit's "10 Best New Restaurants" list. [Boston Channel]
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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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With uncharacteristic speed, successful repairs may have potable water in the system by tomorrow or Wednesday. [Boston Globe]
Obviously, bottled water sales soared this weekend. [Boston Globe]
Basically, everything else was having difficulties. [WHDH]
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An advisory panel recommends rejection of Cape wind project. [Cape Cod Times]
Steven Tyler and Neil Diamond sang and competed in the "Who is older than Fenway Park?" competition. [CBS News]
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Cambridge-based Zipcar's IPO shares jumped up to 75% on its first trading day. Most Massachusetts residents believe global warming is real. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
It looks like Senator Scott Brown is the only person not obsessed with his 2012 reelection campaign. He recently said he's not worried about 2012. "Give me a break. I’m not concerned about my job," he said in his definitive I'm-Scott-Brown-and-I-drive-a-truck tone.
ABC News and the Associated Press have called Governor Deval Patrick the winner in the gubernatorial race. Sean Bielat has conceded to Barney Frank.
- Gubernatorial candidates Deval Patrick and Charles Baker spent the final campaign weekend stumping for votes. Patrick visited Holyoke, Natick, Newburyport, and Lynn. Baker rolled through Foxboro, Natick and Worcester. Senator Scott Brown was with Baker. [Globe]
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.
The first Massachusetts gubernatorial argument discussion debate took place last night. Bostonist was bored watching it.
Hurricane Earl is weaker than it was, and Governor Deval Patrick says it could drop to a Category 1 storm before it hits Massachusetts. Gov. Patrick did declare a state of emergency.
Our friends at Gothamist are keeping the Ist-a-verse well informed on the ongoing "Ground Zero mosque" saga. A mosque is planned close to Ground zero. Some people support it. The families of 9/11 victims seem to oppose it.
Politics is hyper-partisan in the 21st Century. Usually, Bostonist enjoys the full-contact sport of politics. We also enjoy politicians who occasionally act without partisanship.
The Bay State is as close to approving casino gambling as its ever been. Legislators actually worked out a deal to allow three casinos and two slot parlors at racetracks, selected by a bidding process and overwhelmingly approved the bill.
- Tim Murray left the hospital. He won't be visiting Deval Patrick's home in Milton because the Governor's place isn't air conditioned. [WBZ]
- The high temperatures complicated the work of firefighters battling a brush fire in Holden. [Worcester Telegram & Gazette]
- Jobs you might not want on a hot summer day. [Boston.com]
- 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]
- Fixing the Weston water main break has cost $572,000 so far, the MWRA said. Expect that number to grow. [Boston Globe]
- Remember the absurd amount of rain Mother Nature dropped on us in March? Well, the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation said that's the reason access to Walden Pond State Reservation's trails and swimming areas will be restricted this summer. [Boston Globe]
- A total of 13 MBTA employees are getting canned for participating in a scam to falsify inspection bus records. [Boston Herald]
- A driver of an MBTA bus was caught reading a newspaper while driving. A motorist, presumably driving, took a picture of it. [WBZ>]
With great fanfare and confetti, the Mass GOP tossed aside Christy Mihos and named Charlie Baker its nominee for this fall's gubernatorial election. Baker will face off against incumbent Deval Patrick and Independent Treasurer Tim Cahill for the unenviable position of having everyone in Massachusetts hate you even if they voted for you. Green partier Grace Ross will also contend for the honor of being the Commonwealth's least liked person. [Globe]
Worth a read: A piece this morning on Blue Mass Group that takes issue with the sudden and disturbing conventional (well, er, Newsweek) wisdom that Mitt Romney should be Health Care Czar (TM). Among the howlers in the Newsweek piece is this one: "[This is why Romney is] best qualified for the job of health-care czar: He's basically already done it. In fact, he's the only executive who has done it." As BMG rightly points out, Romney didn't oversee any part of the implementation of Massachusetts health care reform—the law went into effect after he left Beacon Hill—and, crucially, he had no role in the meager cost controls that we got from Therese Murray and Deval Patrick in 2008. [Blue Mass Group]
We're not ready to say "New New Appalachia," but fill out those census forms today, kids, because Massachusetts is falling apart!
We always thought that Massachusetts was due some residual benefit from the fact that Governor Deval Patrick's dad was a jazz legend—other than the bragging rights we have over the 49 states that aren't governed by the son of a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra. But now, HubArts reports, Patrick will donate his father's entire jazz archive to the Berklee College of Music.
Our scientific instruments aren't particularly sensitive, so take it with a grain of salt when we estimate that 274928653478 inches of rain have fallen on Boston in the last 48 hours. As much as we like to sneer at those in balmier latitudes who have to shut down entire metropolitan regions after a little snow dusting, it turns out that Boston's Biblical Flood Preparation training leaves something to be desired.