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THE TROLLEY TROLLOP: AN INCONVENIENT STABBING
Man, what a week it has been. Steve Jobs passed away. The Occupy Boston movement is still going strong. Sarah Palin announced to no one in particular she’s not running for president, (only a mere three...
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BOSTON BASTARD: CONFLICT AND DISINTEREST
Two well known Boston-based Black institutions have been butting heads in recent weeks, with OneUnited Bank threatening to foreclose upon the Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in...
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BOSTON BASTARD: FUZZY MATH
Late last year, former Boston City Councilor Maureen Feeney was railroaded by public opinion in her attempt to effortlessly transition into a higher-paying gig as City Clerk, which included a pay bump...
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BOSTON BASTARD: PARTY CRASHERS
I heard a rumor that Suzanne Lee and Maura Hennigan were both seen at the South Boston vigil for Barbara Coyne – the 63-year-old woman stabbed last week, politicking in some form or fashion. This was...
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BOSTON BASTARD: ASLEEP ON THE JOB
The annual municipal budget season is always a mixed bag for journalists in Boston, who on one hand, get to see a stream of hearings that provide opportunities for city councilors to posture over their...
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BOSTON BASTARD: DARK HORSE
John Connolly had better watch his ass, I’m starting to think that fellow City Councilor Mike Ross may also be considering a run at the mayor’s office next year, and who can blame him -- he’s got the...
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BOSTON BASTARD: SOAP BOX DERBY
With one last congratulatory circle jerk, the city’s budget season mercifully ended last week, with every councilor ultimately approving the operating budget, while Mike Ross was the only councilor...
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BEAN COUNTER: VOLUME 14, ISSUE 30
BPD officers have received over 400 hours of overtime pay for court appearances never requested by prosecutors, according to a Globe analysis. Worse, officers refused to even try to look busy when...
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BOSTON BASTARD: BACK IN SESSION
It is almost too appropriate that the Boston City Council begins this year with meaningless grandstanding and a feeble attempt to hide the amount of backstage wheeling and dealing that makes up Boston...
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BOSTON BASTARD: CHOOSING SIDES
After one year of being the newest face on the Boston City Council, it is still difficult to tell whose side Frank Baker is on. It has long been common practice for councilors to form tenuous alliances...
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HONEST PINT: BREWERY AND COMMUNITY
On Congress Street this past Thursday afternoon, I saw something that I—and many, many others—have been waiting at least a year and a half to see: people walking down the street with a growler of...
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NEWS TO US: THE DIG’S ENDORSEMENTS
For the Dig‘s endorsement of Marty Walsh for mayor, click HERE. BOSTON CITY COUNCIL City Hall will be a markedly altered beast without the crop of current councilors who ran for mayor and already lost....
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NEWS TO US: 13 IN THE CHAMBER
Meet the new Boston City Council. And be sure to pay close attention. After two decades of toiling in obscurity under roughshod mayoral dominance, this group finally has a chance to claim some real...
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INTERVIEW: FOUNDATION DAY 2014
Photo courtesy of the Foundation Movement On the eve of Boston’s highest hip-hop holiday … some progressive words of wisdom from our laureate MCs … When the Dig first covered the Foundation Movement...
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BOSTON COUNCILORS EQUATE POT DISPENSARIES TO METHADONE CLINICS, AND WORSE!!!
If I gave a damn how cops and public health officials felt about weed, I would have stopped puffing in plain sight years ago and sought a city job that tests my pee. Nevertheless, I wasted nearly...
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BLUNT TRUTH: YOU’RE ALL CONSPIRING TO FUCK PATIENTS!!!
As expected, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s implementation of medical marijuana has incited endless media and political uproar. It’s a strange situation, as the carts circle so many...
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BLUNT TRUTH EXTRA: VAPORIZING MYTHS ABOUT THE BOSTON MEDIA’S FAVORITE WEED FELON
Image via stevedeangelo.com It’s no secret that, generally speaking, the Boston media’s coverage of medical marijuana dispensary applicants has been negligent. That’s especially true in the case of...
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PEACH POT: HOW A GEORGIA REPUBLICAN WOUND UP FIGHTING FOR MARIJUANA REFORM...
Photos courtesy of Peachtree NORML To pot activists in Massachusetts, where Democrats run everything and marijuana reform is assumed to be inherently lefty, Sharon Ravert at first looks like a cartoon...
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THE DIGBOSTON 4.20 SENSIMILLA STIGMA SPECIAL
At this point, there’s no legitimate reason to oppose marijuana. As demonstrated in the profile of Georgia pot reformer Sharon Ravert herein, even sensible conservatives are tired of the resources and...
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BLUNT TRUTH: A GLORIOUS 4.20 ON THE COMMON
Image by Scott Murry With this year’s dual Easter and 4.20 holiday bonanza falling right before the super-secure 2014 Boston Marathon–and with the Boston City Council having passed an ordinance that...
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