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Mass. awarded $100 million in transit funds

After getting only peanuts from the $8 billion the feds handed out last month for high speed rail, Massachusetts has done a bit better in grabbing some of the $1.5 billion in TIGER funds handed out today. The states gets almost $100 million for three projects: Fitchburg Commuter Rail Extension…

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One good thing about snow: It helps the cops track armed-robbery suspects

2/16/10 - 2:39 pm Boston Police report fresh footprints in the snow helped lead them to two suspects in an armed robbery in Roslindale yesterday afternoon. read more

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You can always tell a drunken Harvard student - you just can't tell him much

The Crimson reports record numbers of Harvard students are showing up at the university clinic dead drunk - the economy is to blame, of course - and that college officials are worried about an upcoming event that mixes "alcohol and fire," which they are thinking is not the best of ideas. …

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Tree of Life Tai Chi Center

Thinking about doing some Taichi/Qigong here

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Boston Blotter: Spurned Lover Murder Convictions Edition

-- Nicole Chuminski, 27, was convicted of killing her lover's two children when she set fire to their house. Chuminski killed Acia and Sophia Johnson, ages 14 and 13, had "a rocky relationship" with the girls' mother, Anna Reisopoulos, and set the fatal fire as an act of out-of-control vengeance…

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What's a good liqueur for noodles?

Wagamama at the Pru goes before the Boston Licensing Board Wednesday morning to seek permission to serve liqueurs. It already has a beer and wine license.

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All of Boston's Colleges are Racist

Since we spent so much time skewering Emerson for its terrible record of granting tenure to minority faculty, it's only fair that we draw your attention to this recent Globe article that looks at the tenure situation for minority faculty at all of Boston's private colleges. Are you surprised to…

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Tire, wheel thieves return to West Roxbury, Roslindale

District E-5 reports somebody's going around the city's two quietest neighborhoods stealing wheels off cars again. On Feb. 4, the owner of an Accord on LaGrange Street came out to find his car up on concrete block and missing one tire. On Feb. 11, the owner of a Chevy Colorado parked on the VFW…

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Court reaffirms public's right to watch jury selection in criminal cases

First, an admission: When I saw two Supreme Judicial Court decisions came out this morning related to former Stoughton police officer David Cohen, I just tossed the e-mail - I've reached my limit on Stoughton police corruption (hey, Stoughton, WTF?). Fortunately, Robert Ambrogi has a much higher…

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Boston Bruins Tikets And The Boston Garden – Historically Interwoven | TROMPYX

Boston Bruins Tikets And The Boston Garden - Historically Interwoven: http://trompyx.com/boston-bruins-tikets-boston-gar den-historically...

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Bite Size News, February 17: Murray vs. Brown Edition

Image by hmmlargeart from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Lieutenant Governor Timothy Murray still exists and said Wednesday that Senator Scott Brown is "flat-out wrong" when claimed the federal stimulus package failed to create new jobs in Massachusetts. [WCVB]2010 Winter Olympics gold…

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Republicans Want Other, Romney

The "Esquire Survey of America's Republican Elite" has found that 31% of our Republican leaders favor the Mitt man for the presidency in 2012. Affection for Romney is an odd segue from the previous survey question, to which 55% of respondents asserted that their party should focus on "shrinking…

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Man to spend rest of life in prison for killing wife he hated

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Da Lin Huang, 46, of first-degree murder for strangling his wife after first bashing her head repeatedly against the wall of her apartment in 2001, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. read more

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Boston sets up anonymous bully hotline

617-534-5050 - drop a dime on a bully, either in real life or online, to trained staffers from the Boston Public Health Commission. More.

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