DeLeo wants probation hires under Civil Service
House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo said yesterday he will file legislation to make hiring and firing at the state Probation Department subject to civil service rules, in an attempt to begin repairing an agency badly damaged by a patronage scandal.
Now it will be impossible to fire any of them.
MCAS tied to college success for Hub grads
Now it will be impossible to fire any of them.
MCAS tied to college success for Hub grads
The state’s high academic standards and rigorous MCAS exams appear to have given Boston high school grads a dramatic boost toward earning college degrees, but too many are still dropping out, according to a study being released today.
I'm sick of seeing the word but turn up in my newspaper.
Rentals soar as more people steer clear of homeownership
I'm sick of seeing the word but turn up in my newspaper.
Rentals soar as more people steer clear of homeownership
And the Globe considers this a good thing. More property in fewer hands.
- Harvard revamps its Corporation
- Jury watches a dying smoker
- Menino is missed as he misses out on annual tree trimming
- Union says city officials met secretly over charter schools
- MBTA earns mixed grades on accessibility in review of ADA settlement
- Man killed in small-plane crash identified
- Man acquitted in deadly I-91 accident
- OSHA investigates fatal fall from bridge
- High court will take case on warming
Flags will drop to mark Pearl Harbor date
The mother of all false flags.
The great Roosevelt knew about it and allowed it to happen so he could get us into WWII.
- A divided SJC blocks evidence
- Prisoner steals moment of freedom
- Lawmakers consider another spending bill to offset health costs
- 350 volunteers take part in Homeless Census
- N.H. man claims insanity in killing
- R.I. man held without bail after ninth OUI arrest
- Boston to replace 2 principals at underperforming schools
- Boston man charged in series of church break-ins
- Defendant seeks to bar use of video showing boy’s death at gun expo
California gay marriage court case proves a hit on TV
Click.
Top math, science students take home $100,000 for research, inventions
Sailor accused of trying to sell secrets
To who?
- Census releases new population estimate
- Judge is urged to halt stem cell funding
- Three imprisoned for holding teen captive
- Supreme Court takes up deadline for veterans seeking benefits
- Prosecutors ‘mute’ at death case hearing
- ICE took extra steps to best deportation record
Japan, India pressed to curb child abductions
When are we going to stop killing children with invasions and occupations?
Lawmakers and universities cut sabbaticals to trim costs
Maybe the "lawmakers" should get one. (Maybe I will take one seeing as the Globe only gives me 5 stories a day before I have to be a member).
- Challenges to Emanuel’s candidacy reviewed
- Obama calls for new ‘Sputnik moment’ for US
- Elizabeth Edwards reportedly gravely ill with cancer
I no longer believe a word regarding plane crashes in the paper.
- Firm’s new moniker may be its Trump card
- Google launches an online bookstore
- Boston magazine editor out after less than 1 1/2 years
- Sex-bias suit faces crucial test
- Bank of America bought trouble with Countrywide
See why I no longer want to read the Boston Globe?
Related: Treasury to sell more Citigroup stock
Selling it at a loss, taxpayers.
"The recovery in ad spending is not showing up across the board. Instead, forecasters expect advertisers will continue to shift dollars to the Web and away from traditional media such as newspapers.
Related: Kicking Around the Boston Globe
Soon there will not be a paper to kick.
The forecasts come as many media and entertainment companies gather for the annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference in New York.
A conference for the media sponsored by a BANK!
That just about says it all, doesn't it?
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Borders may target its rival
Who cares?
Who reads books anymore -- or newspapers for that matter?
US cites success of investor-fraud crackdown
Not like it is a self-serving comment or a piece of deception, Americans.
Your government would never do that to you, right?
Minn. AG accuses Discover of fraud
Debt-crisis fund is big enough for now, Europe’s leaders say
China’s growth brings big returns, but some see investment disasters ahead
Yeah, don't invest in an AmeriKan newspaper.