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Lapsed journo, Pennsyltucky expat. “While they lived, they were victors, or vanquished, or both. Now they are neither. Words are the only victors.”
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Ex-cardinal McCarrick tells Massachusetts court he's incompetent for trial

Ex-cardinal McCarrick tells Massachusetts court he's incompetent for trial

The Washington Post — DEDHAM, Mass. - Five years after child sex abuse allegations against then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick first surfaced and rocked the U.S. Catholic Church, lawyers for McCarrick, 92, said Monday that he's no longer mentally competent to stand trial and that the charges should be dismissed.
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Rick Singer, at center of college admission scandal, sentenced to 3½ years in prison

Rick Singer, at center of college admission scandal, sentenced to 3½ years in prison

The Washington Post — BOSTON - The former college admissions consultant who orchestrated a breathtaking scheme to get the children of wealthy parents into highly selective colleges through bribery, cheating on the SAT and ACT, and fake athletic credentials was sentenced Wednesday to 3½ years in prison for crimes he committed in what became known as the "Varsity Blues" scandal.
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DOJ antitrust challenge to airline alliance concludes in federal court

DOJ antitrust challenge to airline alliance concludes in federal court

The Washington Post — BOSTON - A month-long antitrust case wrapped up in federal court Friday that could set limits on how and whether domestic airlines can form alliances. Federal antitrust regulators last year sued to stop an alliance between American Airlines and JetBlue Airways in which the carriers share passengers, jets and revenue in certain routes between New York and Boston, calling it anticompetitive and harmful to consumers.
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Biden administration challenges airline alliance as antitrust trial begins

Biden administration challenges airline alliance as antitrust trial begins

The Washington Post — BOSTON - Federal prosecutors trying to halt an alliance between two air carriers in the Northeast painted the agreement Tuesday as one that could allow the carriers to limit capacity and harm fare-reducing competitors, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
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A more diverse Boston prepares for a true changing of the guard

A more diverse Boston prepares for a true changing of the guard

The Washington Post — BOSTON - For two centuries, this historic city has elected only White men as mayor. This fall, its history will be upended. Bostonians will go to the polls Tuesday in what is locally called a preliminary election, winnowing more than half a dozen mayoral candidates down to two for the general contest in November.
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Michigan appeals court reinstates Election Day mail-in ballot deadline as early voting surge cont...

Michigan appeals court reinstates Election Day mail-in ballot deadline as early voting surge cont...

The Washington Post — A state appeals court in Michigan moved up the deadline for voters to return mail-in ballots, reimposing a cutoff favored by Republicans during a continuing surge in early and mail-in voting around the country.
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Government Shutdown Shutting Some People Out of Food Assistance

Government Shutdown Shutting Some People Out of Food Assistance

WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) — "We don't have any food right now," she said. "There's no food in our house." Harris is one of a small number of people, so far, whose access to federal benefits like food stamps is cut off because there is no one in Washington to keep those programs running.
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Subsidized Housing Latest Government Shutdown Casualty

Subsidized Housing Latest Government Shutdown Casualty

WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) — And as the shutdown drags on the government funding is drying up. Several nonprofits in Massachusetts that receive subsidies for the apartments they provide to low-income residents are scrambling to keep their other programs running while the federal money runs out.
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Columbia Gas at Center of Explosions in Recent Past

Columbia Gas at Center of Explosions in Recent Past

WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) — Columbia Gas has been at the center of a number of incidents in Massachusetts and around the country in the last number of years and has drawn the ire of state officials more than once. The Massachusetts division of Columbia Gas, formerly Bay State Gas Co., was involved in four investigations in two years that included three explosions, according to state documents.
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Flood of Complaints in Lynn

Flood of Complaints in Lynn

WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) — Milly Vega knew the water inundating her quiet side street near the Saugus River in Lynn, Massachusetts, last September was trouble. She wasn't ready for what came in her basement at the same time. "The water was darker than usual," she said in an interview. "And it wasn't clear, Mother Nature water.
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Opioid Crisis Driving Suicide Increase in Jails

Opioid Crisis Driving Suicide Increase in Jails

WBTS-TV (Boston, MA) — Brandon Roy had two years clean under his belt and a brand new baby girl at home with his fiancée in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, when Bristol County Sheriffs' officials said they found him hanging in his jail cell last November. "He was a good person," said his fiancée, Alicia French.
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Former Methuen Housing director's salary increased at furious pace since '08

Former Methuen Housing director's salary increased at furious pace since '08

Eagle-Tribune — METHUEN - Former housing authority executive director Kenneth Martin's salary increased at a brisk pace over the years, particularly after 2008, even as Martin warned authority commissioners of financial constraints and limited public funding, according to a review of housing authority documents, state documents, Methuen city records and housing authority commission minutes.
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Former chief quashed internal investigation, now consults on same

Former chief quashed internal investigation, now consults on same

The Eagle-Tribune — A retired Tewksbury police chief contracts his services, such as internal police conduct investigations and promotion testing, to other police departments around the state, including Methuen, but a 2004 memo calls into question the former chief's handling of his own in-house internal affairs investigation involving his brother-in-law.
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Registry of Deeds: Friends and family

Registry of Deeds: Friends and family

The Eagle-Tribune — In mid-January 2015, two new employees showed up at the Northern Essex Registry of Deeds office within days of each other to start as data-entry clerks. The new clerks, spouses of politically connected local attorneys, did not replace employees who left the office, according to registry records. They each started at an annual salary of $38,195. Since Northern Essex Register of Deeds M. Paul Iannuccillo took office in January 2013, all three new hires he has made and nearly all the paid interns he brought in have had the same thread in common: a connected or influential relative.
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Assistant register's duties are poorly defined

Assistant register's duties are poorly defined

The Eagle-Tribune — The duties, job description and qualifications for an elected register of deeds or an appointed assistant register of deeds are sparse, sketched only in outlines by state statutes.
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Division of power among Galvin, registers is source of friction

Division of power among Galvin, registers is source of friction

The Eagle-Tribune — State involvement in many registry of deeds offices has grown in some areas over the last few years, chafing some of the registers of deeds who are independently elected to run their offices.
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Assistant register of deeds hired for $99K

Assistant register of deeds hired for $99K

The Eagle-Tribune — LAWRENCE - The Northern Essex Registry of Deeds office got a new assistant register Feb. 1, less than two weeks after The Eagle-Tribune interviewed Register M. Paul Iannuccillo about his schedule and why he spent just under four hours per day in the office. Stephen Fernandes is the new assistant register of deeds and on pace to earn a salary of $99,000, according to the state's open checkbook website. The position of assistant register at the Lawrence office had been vacant for more than two years, according to registry of deeds records.
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Proposal to eliminate some registers of deeds went nowhere

Proposal to eliminate some registers of deeds went nowhere

The Eagle-Tribune — LAWRENCE - After the Northern Essex register of deeds was found to be spending only a half day in the office, state Sen. Stanley Rosenberg, D-Amherst, proposed eliminating seven elected registers of deeds positions. That was in 2011 and at that time he said the proposal was in response to the revelation that former Northern Essex Register of Deeds Robert F. Kelley ran errands, worked at his private law firm and drank during registry hours. The idea went nowhere.
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Politics makes register of deeds position tough to fix

Politics makes register of deeds position tough to fix

The Eagle-Tribune — The revelation that the Northern Essex Register of Deeds spent an average of less than four hours per day at work is a too familiar story in Massachusetts, media watchdogs and others say. M. Paul Iannucillo, the Northern Essex register, is one of a handful of officials caught in just the last several years spending only a few hours per day at the office. In fact, Iannuccillo campaigned for his current job successfully against Robert F. Kelley, a local attorney whom Boston television station Fox25 in 2011 found spent half his work day running personal errands, working at his private firm and drinking.
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Despite promises, register of deeds with $100K-plus salary spent less than 4 hours/ day at office

Despite promises, register of deeds with $100K-plus salary spent less than 4 hours/ day at office

The Eagle-Tribune — The first in a series of articles following a months-long investigation into the work habits and office of the Northern Essex Register of Deeds.
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Lobbyist right at home at Registry of Deeds

Lobbyist right at home at Registry of Deeds

The Eagle-Tribune — LAWRENCE - Methuen City Councilor James P. Jajuga has been a fixture at the Northern Essex Registry of Deeds office for months. Jajuga, a former state senator, state trooper and state secretary of public safety, was observed by The Eagle-Tribune coming and going from the registry regularly during a 6-month investigation of Register of Deeds M. Paul Iannuccillo. Jajuga has been seen going behind a barrier into the employee area, appearing to use state computers, and meeting with employees, including the registry office manager, in the conference room, sometimes without Iannuccillo present.
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Minority hiring rules working against city

Minority hiring rules working against city

The Eagle-Tribune — A 1970s-era federal court decree originally was designed to increase public employee diversity and boost opportunities for minorities. Now, however, officials in two majority minority cities say the decree is constraining how many minority candidates they can hire. Lawrence is badly lagging on a requirement to diversify its Police Department in a way that would make it more representative of the largely Latino community it serves. Officials say the federal agreement designed to encourage more minority representation actually prevents them from hiring enough minority candidates to meet that requirement.
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Author of report justifying Martin's pay hike omitted some housing directors' salaries

Author of report justifying Martin's pay hike omitted some housing directors' salaries

The Eagle-Tribune — METHUEN - A 2008 salary report used to give a 15-percent raise to then-housing executive director Ken Martin listed salaries in a half dozen similarly-sized housing authorities nearby and concluded Martin's salary was low compared to other directors in the region.
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Former Methuen Housing director's salary increased at furious pace since '08

Former Methuen Housing director's salary increased at furious pace since '08

The Eagle-Tribune — METHUEN - Former housing authority executive director Kenneth Martin's salary increased at a brisk pace over the years, particularly after 2008, even as Martin warned authority commissioners of financial constraints and limited public funding, according to a review of housing authority documents, state documents, Methuen city records and housing authority commission minutes.
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