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Rainpocalypse Shuts Down the D
UHub has the photos of the makeshift dam that the MBTA has built at the point where the D Line goes underground to keep flood waters from filling Kenmore Station. The D is closed between Fenway and Kenmore until the waters of the muddy river recede again....
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At-Large Candidates Support Parks
Boston Park Advocates highlighted the 2009 At-Large City Council Debate on Parks and Open Spaces on Monday. The candidates discussed ways to increase funding for parks, expansion of bike lanes, community gardens and seniors programs, and how to maintain sports fields. The debate featured 100 sponsors, which means people love parks. [UniversalHub]
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A Class Action Against Zipcar
Universal Hub reports on a class action lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston by an Illinois man who claims that Zipcar's fees are illegal under Massachusetts law. Among the practices mentioned in the complaint are allegedly excessive late fees, fees for retrieving lost articles, fees for speaking to a live representative, and automatic debits from deposits on accounts that are "inactive." [UHub]...
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The Rush Hour Debate
As we predicted, we didn't make it home in time to watch tonight's Boston mayoral debate on Channel 25, which was helpfully scheduled for rush hour. Luckily for us, Adam Gaffin was available to liveblog it. The highlights? Michael Flaherty doesn't know how much it costs to ride the T. Yoon explained why there are four candidates in the race. The moderator asked Menino if he thought he spoke like an imbecile. McCrea yelled a...
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Yoon Plans to Completely Remake City Government
Image of Sam Yoon from his campaign Web site. "It comes down to the strong mayor thing," Sam Yoon told a tableful of bloggers today at Flash's, a Back Bay bar. Yoon doesn't just want to be the next mayor of Boston. He wants to completely remake the job. Yoon started the discussion with a little history lesson. "We haven't had a real debate about [Boston's] charter since 1909," he said. That was when...
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Globe, Beam Vs. Technology
That the crew at Universal Hub observed the square peg/round hole relationship to technology sometimes displayed by the Globe comes as no surprise here. In this case, the culprit is Alex Beam's Tuesday column. Bostonist remembers the Globe's odd use of an apparent Twitter-esque reporting style. And, don't forget they might think
downloading music is a fad. (FYI, We know it's iPod and not I-POD.)
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Trolley Crash Caused by "Micro-Sleep Episode"?
Universal Hub reports that the NTSB has suggested that Therese Edmonds might have crashed her Green Line trolley due to a "micro-sleep episode" triggered by job fatigue and undiagnosed sleep apnea, not, as was originally reported, the Doxylamine in her bloodstream. Adam Gaffin's headline says it all....
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Boston Blotter: We Yield the Floor to Adam Gaffin
Please read The Philip Markoff story as told in Herald adjectives at Universal Hub right now....
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Good Times in Jamaica Plain
(Link swiped from Universal Hub.)...
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Anybody Have a Job for Adam Gaffin?
Boston's best blogger just lost his day job. Does that mean an exponential increase in UHub posts coming our way? Or will the Globe take Adam Reilly's advice and give Adam Gaffin a job?...
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Memo to Michael Flaherty: Once Seen on the Internet, a Video Cannot be Unseen
Eagle-eyed Universal Hub caught city councilor Michael Flaherty prematurely announcing his candidacy for mayor via Youtube. See the video-within-a-video here....
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12 Days of New Year's: 9 Cab Rides Home
Eagle-eyed Universal Hub has noted that the City of Cambridge is offering free cab rides to those who drink in Cantabrigian bars and restaurants this New Year's Eve. The so-called safeRide voucher can be obtained from any Cambridge bar or restaurant and will cover the first $35 of your trip. (Don't forget to tip.) Crossing the river this New Year's might be easier to manage than staying in Boston....
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Christmas Castle Architect Allegedly Deadbeat Dad
Dominic Luberto, the Jamaica Plain man responsible for the annual Christmas castle that blinds drivers on the Arborway, owes $123,833.37 in back child support, according to the Mass. Department of Revenue. His Tudor-style castle, which, ironically, his current wife owns, has become an international landmark for the Christmas-addled. [Herald, via UHub, which ran an interview with Luberto last year.]...
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Election Sour Grapes Report: Mirko Geffken Stops Paying His Employees' Health Insurance
Mirko Geffken is the President and CEO of the technology consulting firm Aspiant. He is also a terrible employer. According to a memo provided to the internet by Jeff Cutler, Geffken didn't like the way that Massachusetts voted in the most recent election. So, he took away his employees' health and transportation benefits. It's something that you have to read to believe. Workers in Boston, take heart. Your boss could be much, much more unstable...
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Stay Up to the Minute with Election Day Reports
Universal Hub has a map of election-day events reported by readers. Most of the updates focus on wait times (and there are some long lines), though one reader has posted a concerning tale of voters being turned away at polling places. Many folks are sharing their votes online, but Sarah Palin, for one, is keeping her vote under wraps. Maybe she is a maverick. Maybe she is secretly pro-hope. Or maybe she just doesn't like...
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Wilkerson Watch: Who's Who?
If you can't keep track of the cast surrounding State Senator Dianne Wilkerson's arrest on federal bribery charges and subsequent decision to continue the sticker campaign to retain her seat, you are not alone. Bostonist's head has been swimming for days. Not to worry. Bloggers with clearer heads have pieced the whole thing together for us. For the dramatis personæ involved in the bribery scandal itself, check out Universal Hub's handy list of informed speculations....
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Globe Discovers Blogs Echo Chambers, Still Unclear about Hyperlinks
The piece was a nightmare of disorganization. Globe reporter David Abel penned an article in today's Globe Magazine about the cop who hit a baby stroller in a JP intersection, a story that Bostonist broke in August. Abel's piece is sort of about blogs, er, "increasingly popular echo chambers [that] have provided a means for those long walled off from one another in siloed lives to search for answers," and it's sort of about the...
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Bite Size News, August 27
[Allston water gun fight photos tagged Bostonist by cden4] Hillary unleashes the hounds. Or delegates. Or something. Whatever, it's for Obama. [Globe] Harvard-Gawker-Phoenix-Hub racist police officer controversy exPLODES! [Gawker, Phoenix, Universal Hub] You'll have to go to Nashville for nice bathrooms; the one at Smith College didn't make the cut. [Boston Daily] U.S. to adopt international accounting standards. [NYT] Spain swims in tomatoes. [Globe] New Orleans is wary of Gustav. [CNN]...
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More on the Storrow Drive Crash
While Tuesday's crash on Storrow Drive was good for a few one liners on the internet, in real life it has caused someone a miserable headache (and we don't mean the hypothetical but clearly nonexistent keeper of the Longfellow Bridge). Over at b0st0n.livejournal.com, a user put two and two together after getting an email about a horrible moving experience over a local college's alumni list. The upshot? The drivers at Broadway Express moving company...
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Boston Blotter: Everett HS Employee Accused of Child Rape
--Prosecutors in Malden District Court have charged a 57-year-old employee of Everett High School with child rape. He is accused of molesting a boy over a seven month period last year. He has worked for the school as a janitor and coach of the junior varsity basketball team. [Boston Globe] --A 28-year-old man has been arrested for the alleged murder of a 25-year-old woman who was found dead in her home in Peabody. Few...
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Boston Blotter: Lunch Brawl Suspect Nabbed
-- Police arrested the Dorchester man responsible for the February 27th lunch brawl at West Roxbury High School. Edwin Reyes, 39, surrendered to police yesterday. Police say that Reyes led a posse of four adults, including his two brothers and an unidentified woman, to assault a West Roxbury student who had allegedly beat up Reyes's son. Reyes stands accused of punching a West Roxbury student and driving his car into a school police officer while...
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Bite Size News
--Logan Airport is getting wind turbines. And we look to opponents of Cape Wind to ask, "So, what's your issue with wind power again?" [Boston Globe] --Governor Deval Patrick is putting his weight behind a bill that will protect transgendered people. [Boston Globe] --Brigham & Women's will be the first hospital in the United States to perform partial face transplants. [Boston Globe] --Anyone hear a sizzle? Live wires fell on an MBTA bus today...
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Uh-Oh. Adrian Walker Arraigned for OUI
The Globe is blushing right now. Columnist Adrian Walker, most frequently seen getting Universal Hub's dander up, was arrested early Sunday on an OUI. Making matters worse for the Globe, he was driving a company car when Transit Police in Dorchester arrested him for speeding. He told officers that he had been at Silvertone earlier. He has pled not guilty. But the word is out. The Globe mentioned the incident in "New England in Brief."...
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Bite Size News
--Some of those who treated the Big Dig like one big, fat ATM are finally getting their just desserts. Yesterday, a Big Dig contractor was charged with trying to overcharge the government by $300,000. They've agreed to plead guilty. [Boston Globe] --Things are getting hotter for Superior Court Judge Richard T. Moses. The Herald is ticking off a list of sex offenders he set free who then went on to commit more crimes. [Boston...
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Bite Size News
--Note to European officials: Next time you think you've got Whitey Bulger on your hands, make sure it's really him. Two people from Germany just announced that they're the people in the video circulated the FBI, which has led to the frequent hassling of innocent tourists. [Boston Globe] --A Green Line train with 70 passengers derailed at Reservoir last night. Of course, all you could hear if you were waiting for a Green Line...
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Bite Size News
--More fire department turmoil: A panel of union firefighters determined that the alcohol and drugs found in the bodies of firefighters Paul Cahill and Warren Payne in August's Tai Ho Restaurant blaze did not cause their deaths. But the fire commissioner begs to differ. [Boston Globe, background: Bostonist] --While it's good that the mayor is throwing his efforts behind saving Hendry Street from the foreclosure crisis, the housing problems in Dorchester aren't limited to...
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Series of Tubes
--Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub was on NPR this week to discuss Boston Crime, which tracks violent crime on a Google map and allows people to comment on cases. A must-listen. They describe him as a "computer guy by day, crime chronicler by night." [NPR] --What's with the rats all over a recent edition of the Boston Globe? [Massachusetts Liberal] --Where to find pictures of Boston back in the day. [Beantown Bloggery] --Food sniglets! [Cave...
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DevalWatch: The Governor Goes Low Maintenance
First, there were the rumors about Tom Brady getting hair plugs. Now, our Governor shaves his head. The state of the Commonwealth's hair is in flux. The reaction on the internet to this news has been mixed: Boston Daily drew comparisons to Britney Spears' infamous head shaving. Local pundit Seth Gitell, though admittedly biased, praised Patrick for his "courageous leadership." Meanwhile, the majority of Universal Hub voters say that they don't care about the story...
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Bite Size News
--The Coast Guard reined in a 933-foot tanker that broke down off the coast of Cape Cod. The tanker held liquefied natural gas, but the Coast Guard said it didn't leak any. [Boston Globe] --Soon after an accident in which an elderly driver struck a child while he was on his way to vote in Randolph, State Sen. Steve Baddour is campaigning to boost tests for all drivers "throughout their driving careers." [Boston Herald]...
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Bite Size News
--Word is out that former House Speaker and current WRKO radio-show host is going to drop his plans to become a lobbyist, finally realizing that lobbying while being a talking head might be a conflict of interest. Adam G. joked, "The WRKO job must pay more." [Boston Globe, Universal Hub] --Former Massachusetts governor and now former presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he won't try to be vice-president. But he's changed his mind before. [WCVB]...
