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New York Burger Stand on Boston’s Seafood Turf?

BOSTON First the reviled Yankees won the World Series; now Shake Shack, the New York burger stand, might stake a claim in one of Boston’s most sacred spaces. A New York restaurateur vying with a Boston one to create a restaurant at this former ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Boston College,  New York Yankees,  Danny Meyer

Milbridge Journal: Town Once Known as Inclusive Is Riven by Housing Dispute

MILBRIDGE, Me. Down a rural road where wood smoke spirals from chimneys in the settling twilight, a five-acre lot thick with spruce trees is the unlikely site of a dream deferred. During the blueberry season, workers share small sleeping cabins with a ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Rep. Kennedy and Bishop in Bitter Rift on Abortion

Representative Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island was to meet Thursday with Thomas J. Tobin, the Roman Catholic bishop of Providence, and perhaps start healing a bitter rift over whether health care legislation now before Congress should restrict ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Patrick J. Kennedy,  U.S. Congress,  United States Conference of Catholic Bishops,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Edward M. Kennedy

Retirees Still Liable for Alimony, Massachusetts Court Rules

BOSTON The highest court in Massachusetts ruled Monday that alimony should not automatically end when the paying spouse reaches retirement age and stops earning income. The ruling by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court comes at a time when some alimony ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Maine Voters Repeal Law Allowing Gay Marriage

In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement, Maine voters narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage. With 87 percent of precincts reporting early this morning, 53 percent of voters had approved the ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Baldacci,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Jon Corzine,  U.S. Republican Party,  National Organization for Marriage

Menino Coasts to Fifth Term as Boston Mayor

BOSTON Mayor Thomas M. Menino easily won an unprecedented fifth term on Tuesday, relying on his popularity to neutralize charges that the city needed a change. His opponent, City Councilor Michael F. Flaherty Jr., had courted newcomers and ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas M. Menino,  Michael F. Flaherty,  Sam Yoon

Boom in community college enrollment plays out in dead of night

"The seams are tearing, and people are just popping out all over." BOSTON — Winston Chin hustles Tuesdays from his eight-hour shift as a lab technician to his writing class at Bunker Hill Community College, a requirement for the associate's degree he ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Walt Whitman,  Barack Obama,  Dunkin' Donuts, LLC

Setback for Group Fighting Gay Marriage in Maine

BOSTON The Maine attorney general is prodding a national group that fights same-sex marriage to reveal its donors by Election Day, after a federal judge on Wednesday denied the group’s request for a restraining order. Voters will decide on Tuesday ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Organization for Marriage,  Californians Against Hate

Licensed to Sell Marijuana, but Still in Shadow

SANTA FE, N.M. The only person in America with a state license to distribute marijuana wants to keep her identity secret. In Rhode Island, whose new approach will be like New Mexicos, Rob Mooney says street dealers marijuana messed me up. “I’m so ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Eric Holder,  Robert Pack

At Harvard, Leaner Times Mean No More Hot Breakfast

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweatsuits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at faculty ...

From ABBY GOODNOUGH, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Stanford University

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