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Great White Sharks Tagged For First Time Off Massachusetts

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Shark Tagging, Cape Cod, Marine Life, Atlantic Ocean, Massachusetts, Great White Sharks Cape Cod, Great White Sharks, Green News

BOSTON — Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod – the first time ...

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No Blacklisters Please: Decency in P3 Contracting

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dulles Airport Expansion, Dorchester Tunnel, Balfour Beatty, United Kingdom Informaiton Commissioner, Public-Private Partnerships, Connecticut, Texas, p3, North Antelope Rochelle Mine, Chicago Parking Meters, California, Public Works, Highway 130, Virginia, City of Norwalk Parking Authority, Economic League, Blacklisting, Wyoming, LAZ Parking, Metro Goldline, Alfred Cunningham Bridge, Privacy, Massachusetts, Alameda Corridor, North Carolina, Illinois, Vinci, Politics News

The United Kingdom Information Commissioner recently named Balfour Beatty and LAZ Parking Company's parent, Vinci, as having funded a secret 15-year long blacklisting operation.

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Divorce Rate in Gay Marriage-Legal MA Drops To Pre-WWII Level

Bruce Wilson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, James Dobson, Massachusetts, Maggie Gallagher, Gay Marriage, Politics News

After four years, legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts appears to have no effect on the Massachusetts divorce rate, posing a big problem for highbrow critics of gay marriage.

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Curt Schilling Considering Run For Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat (VIDEO)

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts-Senate-Vacancy, Gop, Massachusetts, Curt Schilling, Ted Kennedy, Boston Red Sox, Politics News

BOSTON — Curt Schilling, the former major league pitcher who won the allegiance of Bostonians by leading the Red Sox to the 2004 World Series, s...

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Martha Coakley To Seek Kennedy's Senate Seat

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kenendy Senate Seat Replacement, Kennedy Senate Seat, Kennedy Senate, Martha Coakley Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Martha Coakley Senate Seat, Politics News

BOSTON — The race for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death last week of Edward Kennedy got off to a cautious start Tuesday, despite a t...

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Hearing Date Set On Possible Kennedy Replacement

AP | STEVE LeBLANC | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kennedy Replacement, Sen. Kennedy Dies, Senate Replacement Hearings, Vicki Kennedy, Gov. Deval Patrick, Sen. Kennedy Dead, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

BOSTON — The push to name a successor to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy gained momentum Monday, with state lawmakers scheduling a hearing on wh...

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Vicki Kennedy Not Interested In Senate Seat: Stephanopoulos

ABC News | George Stephanopoulos | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Election, Senate, Massachusetts, George Stephanopoulos, Ted Kennedy, Vicki Kennedy, Politics News

The trial balloon launched yesterday by Kennedy friends Chris Dodd and Orrin Hatch isn't going anywhere. A solid source assures me that Vicki Kennedy...

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Friends, Romans, Countrymen... Not

Linda Hirshman | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Funeral, Massachusetts, Eulogy, Barack Obama, Rose Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

What might President Obama have said at Ted Kennedy's funeral?

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Friday Talking Points [91] -- Win One For Teddy

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Calling for some sort of decorous avoidance of politics during politicians' funerals is downright ridiculous. It'd be like eulogizing Charles Lindbergh and not mentioning airplanes.

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Ted Kennedy: A Whole Human Being

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yin and Yang, Senator John L. McClellan, Capitol Hill, Watergate, Vietnam War, Ted Kennedy, Senator Edward. M. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Massachusetts, United States, Senate, Politics News

I discovered that I'd misjudged Ted Kennedy. I hope that now I would have the wisdom to confer more compassion on any and all in tragic circumstances.

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Senator Ted Kennedy: The Lion In Water

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Richard Nixon, Chevy Chase, Politics, Gerald Ford, Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, United States Senate, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Ted Kennedy was undoubtedly the lion of the Senate who lived a long and consistent life as a public servant. Not even political foes can argue that hi...

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This Will be a Difficult Seat to Fill

Byron Williams | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Civil Rights, John F. Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, Apartheid, Americans With Disabilities, Massachusetts, South Africa, Election, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

For the first time since 1952, it is possible someone whose last name is other than Kennedy will hold that Senate seat from Massachusetts.

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What Ted Kennedy Meant to Me

Joe Trippi | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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I learned a lot in the long campaign of 1980. Kennedy taught me loyalty, brotherhood, to never give in -- and to always fight.

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Senator Kennedy Made Me Do This

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bilingual Education, S-Chip, Children, Ryan White, Immigration, Ted Kennedy, HIV/AIDS, Senator Hatch, Health Care, Americorps, CARE Act, Massachusetts, Poverty, Minimum Wage, Healthcare, Politics News

Kennedy's career was marked by a decades-long commitment to help those with the least political power - the poor, children, immigrants, and the uninsured.

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Remembering Ted Kennedy's Early Career

Danny Miller | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Senate, Massachusetts, Health Care, Voting Rights, Harry Truman, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Ironically, it was President Kennedy's assassination less than a year into Ted's first term that really allowed the younger Kennedy to find his place on the national stage.

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Malice, Blowback, and the "Yeah, So?" Gambit

Eric Lurio | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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Kennedy's last public act before he died was to write the Massachusetts Democratic leadership and plead for the law that forbids a governor from appointing a senator's successor, be changed.

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Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009 (PHOTOS)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Special Olympics, Slideshow, Advocacy, Kennedy, Maria Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy, Images, Politics News

BOSTON - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics and helped demonstrate that the mentally disabled can triump...

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Funeral, Wake (PHOTOS)

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

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HYANNIS, Mass. (Associated Press) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics, was celebrated Friday at a funer...

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Taking Gun Laws Seriously

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Crime, Deval Patrick, Gun Control, Criminal Justice, Massachusetts, Nra, Guns, Illegal Guns, Politics News

The gun lobby's refrain, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people" represents a well-disguised fallacy -- one that recently proved surprisingly persuasive to the highest court in Massachusetts, a state long known for its strong gun laws.

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Gates-Crowley Battle Not About Race, but Rather Citizens' Rights

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Extremism, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge, Fanaticism, Police, President Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Citizens' Rights, James Crowley, Race, Home Break-In, Politics, Sean Hannity, Racism, Glenn Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Arrest, Politics News

When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.

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Gay, Gay, More Gay: Can't We All Just Get It Straight?

Richard Laermer | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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A state that recognizes same-sex marriage is entitled to have its "public act, record, and judicial proceeding" (and marriage is arguably all three) respected by all the other states.

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Mass. Hospital Sues Over Cost Of Universal Health Care

The New York Times | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Boston, Massachusetts Health Care, Boston Medical, Deval Patrick, Health Insurance, Universal Health Care, Medicaid, Massachusetts, Health Care, Politics News

A hospital that serves thousands of indigent Massachusetts residents sued the state on Wednesday, charging that its costly universal health care law i...

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