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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tom Menino Hip Edition)
The hardworking staff has to admit that when we saw this headline in today’s Boston Herald Mayor Thomas M. Menino: You wanna know what’s hip? me! we immediately thought of hip replacements. Actually, the piece is about the noodnik campaign … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Future Boston Alliance, noodnik campaign, Tom Menino
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Top Chef: You Gotta Try Boston!
Headline of full-page ad in Sunday’s Boston Globe: HELP BRING TOP CHEF TO BOSTON Obligatory button: The ad is the most visible part of a campaign launched by Digitas and Mayor Tom Menino to bring Season 10 of Bravo’s popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Bravo, Digitas, Facebook, Mick Darling's Posterous, Tom Menino, Top Chef, Twitter
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Here’s That Menino-Bloomberg Anti-Gun Ad
Boston Mayor Tom Menino and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might be Super Bowl rivals, but they’re also gun-control partners, as this TV spot (which will run regionally – not nationally – during today’s Super Bowl broadcast) attests: Pretty sharp, although … Continue reading
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Tagged gun control ad, Michael Bloomberg, New York Post, Super Bowl, Tom Menino
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Boston Deadbeat Non-Profits Edition)
Boston Mayor Tom Menino has lately been shaking down major tax-exempt institutions with his “payment in lieu of taxes,” or PILOT, program – with mixed results and mixed reviews. Regarding the latter, here’s the Boston Globe’s Saturday report: Nonprofits boosting Boston’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston PILOT program, Crash Browser Dummy, Tom Menino
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (DeOccupy Boston Edition II)
Another nifty compare-and-contrast in the local dailies regarding the legacy of this weekend’s Occubye Boston decampment (earlier edition here). Call it A Tale of Three Columnists. Columnist #1: Brian McGrory, whose front-page Sunday Boston Globe piece is the very model of an … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brian McGrory, Howie Carr, Occubye Boston, Occupyniks, Peter Gelzinis, Supt. William Evans, Tom Menino
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Where Is @FakeTomMenino?
Sunday’s Boston Globe trumpeted Mayor Tom Menino’s triumphant return to the Twitterverse: Mayor reconnects with his public, breaks out in tweets on Twitter After nearly a year of silence, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is back on Twitter, connecting with … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily (Nike)Town
Well, Mayor Tom Menino (D- Smallville) can add another notch to his belt: Niketown has folded like origami. As previously noted, T-Shirt Tommy objected to a window display at the Newbury Street Niketown, accusing the retailer of promoting drug use. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Mayor of Smallville, Niketown, Tom Menino
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The Dead-Tree Boston Herald Dead In The Water?
At 1 AM today, as the lateworking staff noted, the Boston Herald website featured this: Police say Whitey Bulger arrested in Santa Monica LOS ANGELES — James “Whitey” Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Gerry Callahan, home delivery, Tom Menino, Whitey Bulger
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Menino Still Dopey About Niketown T-Shirts
So it wasn’t bad enough Boston Mayor Tom Menino lowered himself to subterranean depths in nuking Niketown for its Newbury Street window display, “which boasts T-shirts emblazoned with pill bottles and sporting the words ‘Get High’ and ‘Dope’ — along … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Dictator for Life, Dot Joyce, Nike, Niketown, t-shirts, Tom Menino
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Joan Vennochi Required Reading Link (pat. pending)
Boston Globe op-ed columnist Joan Vennochi is always a good read. But often she’s a required read. As in her Thursday column on the wired-like-Con-Ed Peter Meade, who was just appointed head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, a municipal agency … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, BRA, Joan Vennochi, Mayor Me(nino), Peter Meade, Tom Menino, wired like Con Ed
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