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Sex offender ban sought for homeless shelters

The most dangerous sex offenders would be barred from staying at homeless shelters under a plan proposed by advocates for the homeless and endorsed by key legislators. As the state’s steep budget cuts have forced organizations that help the homeless to ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  U.S. Democratic Party,  American Civil Liberties Union,  U.S. Senate

Budget cuts will imperil state’s poor

Maria Bonilla - who has trouble walking because of a congenital heart defect - feeds, houses, and clothes her two young children with $942 of state and federal cash assistance every month, though it barely covers her rent, utilities, and everything ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  Homeland Security Department

Woman struck by city truck

Before firefighters washed away the blood to make way for the marching bands, before an elderly woman carrying a black handbag ventured from the curb, before Ramon Rivera stopped clanging his bell for the Salvation Army, a new city employee hopped in a ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Salvation Army,  Ford Motor Company

MGH doctor returns home after stabbing

BELMONT - There were balloons, a few curious neighbors, and a horde of reporters. Two weeks after a patient repeatedly stabbed her at a Massachusetts General Hospital clinic, Dr. Astrid Desrosiers returned home yesterday, with casts on both forearms ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  Harvard Medical School

Budget trims lead homeless shelters across Mass. to cut services and beds

Boston plans to eliminate nearly 20 percent of the beds at the city’s largest homeless shelter, the first time it has made such cuts. Cape Cod’s largest shelter expects to end its day program, meaning dozens of people are likely to spend their days ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick

State can limit water use, AG’s office argues

In a case that could have a major impact on water use in Massachusetts, the attorney general’s office argued before the state’s highest court yesterday that the Department of Environmental Protection can impose limits on the amount of water ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Department of Environmental Protection,  Margaret H. Marshall

State presses wind projects

With more than a third of the major wind-energy projects in Massachusetts stalled by lawsuits or permit appeals, the Patrick administration has proposed a landmark bill that would streamline the state’s appeals process and make it possible to win ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Deval Patrick,  U.S. Democratic Party,  James McCaffrey,  Sierra Club

In Stoughton, a missing dog’s strange saga

Janet Torren sensed something was wrong when the animal control officer didn’t return her calls. When she reached the officer, it seemed peculiar that her story changed with each question, she said. It was not until Torren threatened to call police ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Murphy

Hemingway’s papers come to JFK Library

In a little-known nook of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, with a fine view five floors above Boston Harbor, lies a book-lined room with a lion skin throw rug, a scrapbook with photographs of old fishermen, and a host of other odd relics from ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Fidel Castro,  Ernest Hemingway,  John F. Kennedy,  James McGovern,  U.S. Democratic Party

New T ads reach out to Hub’s faithless

Beside ads beckoning believers to explore Islam, attend services at the Boston Chinese Evangelical Church, or learn about the healing powers of Christian Science, the walls of the city’s subway cars will make room this month for another creed: ...

From DAVID ABEL, Boston Globe,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Catholic Charities,  Sam Harris,  Christopher Hitchens,  Richard Dawkins

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