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Sad State Of Affairs At Boston Herald
From Tuesday’s Boston Herald: School guard faces rape rap Cops say he had affair with 14-year-old A Lawrence school security officer and basketball coach had a yearlong illicit love affair with a teen girl at his school that unraveled after Salisbury … Continue reading
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Tagged 14-year-old, abuse, Boston Herald, illicit affair, statutory rape
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Yacht Edition)
Friday’s Boston Globe: Kerry says he always intended to pay tax WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry yesterday acknowledged for the first time that he mishandled the political fallout from questions about taxes on his new $7 million yacht berthed … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Edition)
Boston Globe, 7/23/10: Democrats drop signature climate bill Kerry vows to keep fighting for passage Boston Herald, 7/23/10: The Herald story claimed, “Senator docks new yacht in R.I. – ducks $500G in Mass. taxes.” There are many sides to Big … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Jawn, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Capt. Kerry's Cash Cruise, climate bill, John Kerry
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Yankees Voice Bob Sheppard Deserved Better Boston Obit Pix
This is just wrong. Bob Sheppard – the voice of the Yankees at the Big Ballpark from 1951 to 2006 – died Sunday at the age of 99. Here’s the picture from the Boston Globe obituary: Worse, the one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Sheppard, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Derek Jeter, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
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Goodnight, Irene!
Letter to the Editor in the Friday Boston Herald: Modesty for Miley Sure Reuters should have known better (“X-rated Miley $hot is a low blow,” June 21)). And Ms. Cyrus . . . they all look alike and ain’t none … Continue reading
When The (Paul) Levy Breaks
So Paul Levy, embattled chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has finally deigned to talk to the press about stashing his – we’re just guessing here, because Levy “declined to detail the exact nature of the relationship with … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, girlfriend, Martha Coakley, Paul Levy
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (U.S. Census Edition)
Saturday Boston Globe: Nothing about the 2010 U.S. Census. Saturday Boston Herald: Something about the 2010 U.S. Census. Lede: The feds spent millions to convince citizens that participating in the Census was as American as apple pie – but many of … Continue reading
Clip Du Jour©
From our Late To The Party desk: The Boston Herald has been spouting off about the WRKO/Tom Finneran/Click On The Jumping Whale kerfuffle for several days now. The back story: Finneran, co-host Todd Feinburg and producer Bill Cooksey were yakking … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, click on the jumping whale, Howie Carr, Tom Finneran, WRKO
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Red $ox Nation (Adjusted For Inflation)
Is it just me, or was anyone else surprised to learn that the Olde Towne Team’s value appreciated less than 10% over the past eight years? Lede from Friday’s dead-tree edition of the Boston Herald: A regulatory filing yesterday by the New York … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Sonny Rollins Edition)
From our Not-To-Get-Technical-About-It desk: Friday’s (dead-tree) Boston Herald: Rock stars are often blockheads. They want to get paid, party hearty and occasionally make some art. Sonny Rollins is no rock star. A link to the last great jazz age, tenor … Continue reading
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Tagged 80th birthday, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Sonny Rollins
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