"New superintendent open to replacing entrance test for exam schools" by James Vaznis Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
Boston Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius, less than two weeks on the job, expressed a willingness on Wednesday to explore replacing the long-controversial admission test for the city’s exam schools, a polarizing issue that could end up in court.
Cassellius made her comments on WGBH radio Wednesday afternoon in response to questions from hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude, who raised the exam school issue. Cassellius said she was shocked when she learned in recent days that the district’s cost of administering the Independent School Entrance Exam was $140 per student, noting, “That’s a lot of money.”
“We could talk this over and see, are there other options in terms of the exam,” she said. “There might be something that, quite frankly, will save us money,” but she emphasized that she was not calling for eliminating an admission test altogether — an idea being pushed by several civil rights attorneys and parent advocates. “I’m not proposing getting rid of any type of exam or anything like that,” she said.
Cassellius declined a Globe interview request Wednesday to elaborate on her remarks.
Since before she even started as superintendent on July 1, Cassellius has been under pressure by civil rights attorneys to change admission requirements to Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the O’Bryant School of Math and Science in an effort to ensure black and Latino students have a better chance of earning seats.
Three weeks ago, the NAACP and Lawyers for Civil Rights sent her and Mayor Martin J. Walsh a seven-page letter asking them to commit to overhauling the admission criteria and gave them 14 days to respond, but neither the superintendent nor the mayor responded to the letter, and the groups say they are exploring all legal options.
Cassellius’s comments on Wednesday only added to the discontent.....
They want quotas.
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Today's front page confirms it:
New Boston schools superintendent says her focus is on racial equity
The controversy underscores the perilous local politics she faces(?).
Don't screw it up:
"Harvard suspends star economist Roland Fryer following sexual harassment complaints" by Michael Levenson Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
Harvard University on Wednesday suspended the prominent economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. for two years without pay and shut down his education research laboratory after an investigation found he engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with multiple women in the lab.
The punishment derails the career of a scholar who, at 30, became the youngest African-American to receive tenure at Harvard. Now 42, he had been among the highest-paid employees at Harvard, earning $618,027, according to the university’s 2015 tax form, and his Education Innovation Laboratory, or EdLabs, had attracted funding from some of the biggest names in philanthropy, including the Broad, Pritzker, and Gates foundations.
His downfall came after multiple women alleged that Fryer discussed sex at work, sexualized female employees, and created a demeaning workplace at the lab for several years, according to an attorney representing a lab worker who filed a complaint. Fryer’s suspension was announced at a time when the university, like other institutions, has been reckoning with the prevalence of sexual harassment in the #MeToo era.....
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The good thing is he kept Epstein off the front page for a day, and it's going to be a long walk up those stairs with plenty of time to ponder what went wrong:
"Visits to Mass. prisoners fall sharply under new rules" by Mark Arsenault Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
The number of visits to inmates in Massachusetts correctional facilities fell 23 percent in 2018, the first year under new rules restricting how many individuals may visit any one prisoner, according to Department of Correction statistics.
Advocates for prisoners say the decline is a worrying sign for inmates, their families, and the communities to which most prisoners will eventually return.
“Many studies have been done, including by the DOC, that correlate prison visits with reduced recidivism,” said Elizabeth Matos, director of Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, a nonprofit advocacy group for inmates.
Prisoners who receive more visits have fewer incidents of misconduct while incarcerated and a better chance of readjusting once they get out, said Matos, whose group is representing prisoners and visitors who are challenging the new rules in court.
“As people get close to being released, they need to set their lives back up” with a job, housing, and transportation, she said. “It’s very hard to set all that up without help on the outside.”
With the new rules, a DOC spokesman said, higher-security facilities saw a significant decrease in the number of visitors caught trying to smuggle contraband, which was the goal. The department did not provide specifics to substantiate its statement.
The new rules, which went into effect in March 2018, require visitors to be preapproved and limit the number of visitors, corresponding to the facility’s security level.
Before the change, visitors could show up during visiting hours, fill out a form, show an ID, and submit to a search, and they generally were permitted to see an inmate.
The updated regulations set limits for the number of names allowed on a preapproved visitor list: five for inmates in maximum security, eight for those in medium security, and 10 for those in minimum security. The lists could be updated twice a year.
As the new rules were about to take effect, the DOC pushed back against the criticism, arguing the caps would not be a hardship for the average prisoner. At the maximum security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, for instance, the typical prisoner was visited by just 2.3 people, a DOC spokesman said at the time, but in early January, The Boston Globe filed a public-records request for monthly visitation numbers in 2017 and 2018.
State Representative Marjorie C. Decker has filed a bill that would essentially undo the new visiting policy, forbidding caps on the number of individuals permitted to see a prisoner, among other things. The bill is in committee.....
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The least they can do is get them a ride somewhere:
"Baker seeks more oversight of Uber and Lyft" by Aidan Ryan Globe Correspondent, July 10, 2019
Governor Charlie Baker Wednesday called for stricter oversight of the ride-hailing industry, proposing to toughen penalties on drivers who stalk customers or falsify accounts, and collecting more data to understand how Uber and Lyft contribute to the region’s traffic congestion.
Legislation unveiled by the governor would make it a crime for drivers working for so-called transportation network companies, or TNCs, to use customers’ personal account information to stalk or harass them, and would impose jail time of up to 2 ½ years for the practice of “account renting,” where uncertified drivers use the accounts of registered ones.
The new safety provisions come amid “disturbing reports across the country of criminal incidents involving rideshare drivers,” Baker said.
But not here, right?
“People of all ages rely on TNCs at all hours to get to work, go to meetings, or catch a ride home from the airport late at night. In any circumstance, people must feel safe while hailing a ride-share vehicle and after they’ve arrived at their final destination,” he said.
Especially early in the morning.
Baker pointed to an incident at Logan International Airport last April where a man unlawfully used another driver’s ride-hailing account. Baker said the man was later found to have a violent criminal history in two other states.
Praying he's not an illegal, and what's with the poor food service?
His proposal also comes two months after the Globe published the account of a young woman who was stalked by an Uber driver and the difficulties she had in obtaining a restraining order against him.
In addition, the legislation would establish stiffer penalties on drivers who fail to maintain updated driver or background check certificates, fail to display required decals, or fail to maintain adequate insurance.
That cheer you just heard was from the taxi drivers.
“This bill enhances public safety, provides necessary information to transportation planners, will maintain confidentiality, and reduces administrative burdens on our cities and towns,” Baker said.
The governor’s measure was welcomed by Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, who has called for hearings into Uber’s and Lyft’s practices in the city. The ride-sharing companies are probably due for additional oversight, Flynn said, because too many of their drivers are ignoring basic traffic laws.
“I see a lot of double-parking, pulling over in the middle of the street or in a bus lane or bike lane, so those are safety issues,” said Flynn.
Spokespeople for House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka said their respective chambers would review the bill, but offered no additional comment.
Baker’s proposal comes as Uber and Lyft usage in Massachusetts is surging to the point where transportation activists say the services need to be reined in. Ride-hailing services combined for 81.3 million rides across Massachusetts during 2018, a 25 percent increase from the previous year, according to data collected by the Department of Public Utilities.
Since when have they wanted to kill a growth?
The sheer number of Uber and Lyft rides at Logan prompted the Massachusetts Port Authority to ban the services from curbside at the terminals during most of the day, diverting them to a central dropoff location in the parking garages.
Baker has said he supports the restrictions because they would cut down on traffic congestion at the airport and in East Boston, and on Wednesday he cited the increased usage numbers to explain his proposal.....
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Did you get any video?
"Bill would limit public access to police video in Massachusetts" By Todd Wallack Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
Secretary of State William F. Galvin is raising alarms about a bill that would allow government agencies in Massachusetts to withhold all police dash-cam and body-camera footage from the public for any reason.
We are already at the bottom on open-meetings and public records transparency, and the only state where civil treatment means go to prison, and now they want to shut off all the body cams on police.
Why even bother having them, other than for cutting a big, fat state contract to some well-connected company or concern?
Galvin pointed out there are already exemptions in the state public records law for information that could potentially jeopardize an ongoing investigation or invade people’s privacy, but the bill sponsored by state Representative Denise Provost, a Somerville Democrat, would go much further, creating a new exemption in the public records law for “any recordings made by a body camera, dashboard camera, or any similar device by a law enforcement officer,” including video capturing fatal police shootings.
“There is absolutely no need for this,” said Galvin, whose office helps oversee the state’s public records law. Galvin wrote lawmakers Tuesday to raise objections to the bill. “A blanket exemption undercuts the whole purpose of having bodycams.”
The House bill, which is slated to be considered at a hearing of the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on Thursday morning, would also create a task force to establish uniform standards on bodycams — a provision that is likely to be far less controversial, but the bill’s author said she thought it was vital to protect the privacy of innocent people and bystanders who happened to be captured on film, and she worried the video could be used for salacious entertainment.
The $urveillance $tate doe$n't come without problems.
“The goal of privacy protection for victims, minors, bystanders, and witnesses, I think, has to be paramount,” Provost said.
Now can they see your driver's license?
Activists and journalists have frequently obtained such footage in other states after police shootings and other contentious encounters with officers.....
Yeah, and anything that would contradict the image and illusion of Bo$ton being a model city when it comes to cop shootings shan't be allowed.
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Also see: Former top state senator forfeits $90,000 in OCPF settlement
I guess it's a "he said, she said" situation:
"What She Said: On Beacon Hill and beyond, women seeking male allies" by Stephanie Ebbert Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
“We need you guys” might not be a top-selling T-shirt at the next Women’s March, but it’s a message that women’s rights advocates are increasingly comfortable sending in a national climate growing hostile to reproductive rights, and it’s one that men in leadership positions — like 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls Cory Booker and Pete Buttigieg — have been amplifying.
Someone called Buttigieg a racist due to the unusually high number of African-American babies aborted, and as for the climate growing hostile:
"Support for legal abortion stands at its highest level in more than two decades according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The poll found a 60 percent majority who say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, tying the record high level of support from 1995. The latest survey found 36 percent say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, also tying a record low. The increase in support for legal abortion is in part due to large growth in support among independent women voters (up 16 points to 71 percent) and Democrats (up 12 points to 77 percent). A 41 percent plurality of Americans want their own states to avoid making it either harder or easier for women to have access to abortion. Fewer (32 percent) say their states should make it easier and fewer still (24 percent) say their states should make it harder....."
I don't know how to reconcile the two, other than to say I guess we are just a little bit pregnant.
The truth is, it's all about the poll numbers.
After Alabama took steps to ban abortion recently, Booker, a US senator from New Jersey, wrote an open letter in GQ to all men, urging them to action. “Women should not have to face this fight alone,” he wrote, adding that “all people deserve to control their own bodies.”
Except when it comes to mandating vaccines, GMO labels, or identifying chemicals in the air, water, soil, and consumer products.
In Massachusetts, abortion rights advocates who are countering the national trend by trying to expand abortion access actively sought a male ally to sponsor legislation on Beacon Hill.
What they want is unrestricted abortions for anyone and you can count heads to determine who is telling the truth.
Not in a white-knight way, but because women’s issues can be relegated to second-class status unless they are framed as a matter of economic equality and racial justice, noted NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts’ executive director, Rebecca Hart Holder recently told supporters.
“Men have to have skin in the game just as much as women do on reproductive freedom issues,” she said. “And honestly, there are quite a few men in the Legislature who really understood.”
Well, we have been told our whole lives it is a woman's decision. It's hard to want to jump right into something and offer a perspective when you have been excluded.
On Beacon Hill, men are lead sponsors of numerous issues once regarded as female concerns.....
One guy testified about the bill with his own kindergartner on his lap (odd juxtaposition), and the rest of the article reads like a pre$$ release from NARAL.
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Ready for some eats, kids?
"The playful and welcoming environment at the third annual Boston Summer Eats kickoff nevertheless carried serious overtones. The event highlighted the importance of destigmatizing food insecurity and of encouraging students 18 and under to take advantage of the summer program. At the kickoff event, Summer Eats distributed purple tote bags filled with pouches of three-bean chili that could be cooked in 90 seconds using either a microwave or stovetop, and inside the Cole Center — situated within a Boston Housing Authority apartment complex — volunteers packed turkey sandwiches, fruit, and milk cartons into paper bags. Five-year-old Dariel ValentinValentin’s mother, Amber Holden, said it was stressful to scrounge up three daily meals for her children four years ago, before Summer Eats launched. They lived off sandwiches to stretch their available food, she said, acutely feeling the absence of free school breakfasts and lunches. Now, Holden, 28, said her family also has chicken caesar salad and make-your-own-pizza kits at their disposal. “It helps knowing there’s food and resources if we need it,” she said....."
Yes, the crumbs that are showered on us by the well-meaning, charitable elites are gobbled up. Just don't let your stomach rumble from hunger.
You know, give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and..... sorry, dinner bell ringing!
Also see:
Boston police Civil Rights Unit probes vandalism at East Boston church
The graffiti was a series of letters and investigators are trying to determine their meaning, while the suspect was described as a white or Hispanic woman and no arrest has been made.
Mass. hiker rescued from trail in White Mountains
Will they make Janis Dietz pay for it?
Woman’s body pulled from Charles River
Beverly man drowns in Hamilton pond
FBI and Boston police search for armed suspect who robbed bank in South End
“[He was] described by the victim tellers as a black male, medium build, approximately 5 feet 7 inches, dark-colored bandana or scarf covering his head, black sunglasses, [and] what appeared to be tape over his nose, and the FBI is assisting Boston police in the investigation but no arrests have been made.”
No video of him running away?
Patient stabs EMT in ambulance en route to MGH
The female suspect was later identified as Julie Tejeda, 31, of East Boston, and things got stranger from there:
Woman who allegedly stabbed EMS in ambulance was questioned by police about airport threats
According to the Globe, “she was questioned by law enforcement the day before the attack regarding a hoax bomb threat at multiple airports, and the State Police confirmed that investigators spoke to her as part of an ongoing probe into the threat made to airports. Investigators also spoke with a friend of Tejeda’s and relatives, and she was cooperative, had no criminal history, had no history of violence against herself or others, exhibited no terroristic intentions, and had a support network of friends and family within the same household, yet investigators decided to seize her phone through a “court-authorized warrant in furtherance of the ongoing hoax threat investigation.”
No wonder the Uber didn't arrive on time.
Mother in Blackstone ‘house of horrors’ case sentenced to 6 to 8 years in prison
Makes you want to just retire:
"House panel approves measure to shore up failing multiemployer pension plans" by Robert Weisman Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
A bill to prop up financially ailing multiemployer pension plans advanced in Congress on Wednesday as an influential House panel approved a proposal that would protect benefits promised to more than a million workers nationally, including tens of thousands in Massachusetts.
The measure, introduced in January by Representative Richard Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, was passed by the Ways and Means Committee on a 25-to-17 vote along party lines. The full House of Representatives is expected to approve it later this month, but with some committee Republicans calling it a “federal bailout,” it remains unclear if the bill will be taken up in the GOP-controlled Senate. The bill would create a new agency within the Treasury Department called the Pension Rehabilitation Administration to issue government bonds that would finance loans to underfunded multiemployer pension plans.
I don't know how another layer of bureaucracy and more debt is going to help, but I do wonder when he is going to retire -- or will he have to be pushed out (he's got my vote!)?
He won't be worrying about his taxpayer-funded pension, either!
More than 120 multiemployer plans covering 1.3 million workers and retirees are underfunded by a total of $48.9 billion, and have told regulators they could slip into insolvency within 20 years, according to a report last year by the pension consulting firm Cheiron Inc. Such plans typically draw contributions from groups of mostly small businesses.
Yeah, that's with a B and it makes the T's look like two cents.
“These are American workers who planned for their retirement and now, after working for 30-plus years, they are facing financial uncertainty at a time when they are often unable to return to the workforce,” Neal, the committee chairman, told his Ways and Means colleagues before Wednesday’s vote.
The underfunded plans include one covering truck drivers and warehouse workers, represented by the New England Teamsters Union, and another covering Massachusetts workers through the Teamsters’ Central States Funds. Two smaller Massachusetts multiemployer plans, the Chicopee-based Roofers and Slaters Local 248 Pension Plan and the New Bedford Fishermen’s Pension Fund, were also listed among those whose condition was deemed “critical and declining.”
John Murphy, an International Brotherhood of Teamsters vice president who’s led the union’s efforts to shore up the plans, called the Ways and Means vote “a major legislative achievement, showing that government will respond to the needs of middle-class retirees and workers.” Calling on the Senate to pass it, he said “the ramifications of inaction are immeasurable,” but one of those opposing the Neal bill, Representative Tom Rice, a Republican from South Carolina, blamed the precarious finances of the multiemployer plans on what he called “an arcane provision” that allows the labor unions that administer the plans to “chronically underfund” them.....
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So that is what they have been doing during the Democratic cat fight.
Maybe Beacon Hill can help:
"Bill nearing finish line on Beacon Hill would soften blow of high court’s ruling on union dues" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
The US Supreme Court undercut a major source of union funding a year ago, but on labor-friendly Beacon Hill, a “fix” for that court decision is nearing the finish line.
Are they?
If anything, they seem more corporate friendly.
The Massachusetts House and Senate whisked a measure to Governor Charlie Baker’s desk last week that would allow unions for government employees to be reimbursed for arbitration and grievance work they perform on behalf of nonmembers. The roll-call votes in both Democrat-controlled chambers were nearly unanimous.
Listen to him!
They haven't done $h!t for six months, are late with a budget yet again, and he is saying they whisked a bill over to Baker.
Baker said he expects to decide on the bill by the end of this week. The Republican governor said he has no qualms with its main objective, but has concerns about “privacy issues that were raised by some of the intrusive elements of that law.”
Get a body cam on them!
No, wait!
Baker was referring to a provision that would give unions access to workers’ personal e-mail addresses and cellphone numbers. In letters to Baker calling for a veto, the National Federation of Independent Business and the right-leaning Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance criticized that aspect of the bill, in particular.
You know, in case the union had to pay you a little visit.
If Baker balks, overriding him should be a cinch in the Legislature. It’s all but certain this matter will be resolved before lawmakers head off to vacationland in August.
That would be a big relief to union leaders. After all, state legislators couldn’t pull it off a year ago.....
Oh, they got stiffed last year?
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Related:
GE employees in Lynn reject contract
That raises the possibility that GE union members could go out on strike.
"Charlie Baker’s plan to curb drug prices strains his relationship with biotechs" by Priyanka Dayal McCluskey Globe Staff, July 10, 2019
The state’s booming biotech industry has long enjoyed a tight — some would say coddling — relationship with Beacon Hill. Massachusetts has invested hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to help life sciences companies grow.
That's a nice way of saying they lavished tax loot on pharmaceuticals and the like.
Suddenly, the relationship is more complicated.
A proposal by Governor Charlie Baker to curb drug prices paid by the state Medicaid program has biotech leaders up in arms.
If Trump can't do it, what chance does he have?
As state lawmakers meet behind closed doors to hash out a final version of the plan, they are also grappling with this question: How does Massachusetts hold accountable an industry that it helped to build?
Baker’s plan, announced in January, is among the most aggressive in the country to target drug pricing. It would give state officials more power to demand that companies negotiate lower prices. If a company doesn’t negotiate, state officials could publicly set a target value for its drug and subject the company to more oversight from the state Health Policy Commission — including public disclosure of price information, and if the commission determines a drug price is unreasonable or excessive, it could ask the attorney general to investigate under state consumer protection law.
If approved, these rules could apply to about 200 of the most expensive drugs in the state Medicaid program — including those developed by Massachusetts companies that have benefited from public incentives, according to public records obtained by the Globe.
The governor tucked drug pricing controls into his state budget plan; lawmakers are negotiating their budget now.
We're $crewed.
“The industry does not have a good relationship with him right now,” said Robert K. Coughlin, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council president.
A national lobbying group, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, also opposes Baker’s plan.
Administration officials contend that the costs of prescription medications — particularly new drugs that have no competition — are growing too briskly. Before discounts, the cost of drugs in the state Medicaid program, known as MassHealth, nearly doubled over six years, to $1.9 billion in 2018. MassHealth provides coverage for more than 1.8 million people, including the state’s poorest residents.
It's price-gouging at the expense of the poor, and fine, keep your pills.
Employment in the state’s biopharma industry — from tiny startups to the biggest pharmaceutical companies — has increased 28 percent in a decade, to about 70,000 jobs, and the jobs pay well, with wages averaging about $150,000 a year, according to a MassBio report. Sanofi, Shire, Biogen, and Novartis are among the state’s biggest bio-pharma employers.
“It’s been a great success,” said House majority leader Ronald Mariano, a Quincy Democrat. “Just drive through Kendall Square and you can see the buildings that have been created, the economic activity that has been created.”
Employers have long been attracted to Massachusetts’ universities and educated labor force, but in the midst of the Great Recession, Governor Deval Patrick decided to expand the state’s role in growing jobs. Without government help, Patrick said in an interview, the state’s burgeoning biotech sector could have been lost to other states and countries.
In 2008, with legislative approval, Patrick’s administration launched an ambitious plan to grow the life sciences in Massachusetts through an infusion of public spending. In the first decade of the initiative, the state committed more than $677 million in grants, loans, tax incentives, and other support.
Patrick — who is removed from the debate at the State House and hasn’t taken a position on current legislation — said state support for biotech should not exempt the industry from accountability.
“It has to be OK for a friend of the biotech industry to ask how to moderate costs,” he said. “Who better than a friend?”
Baker’s strategy to lower drug prices has taken many by surprise.
Executives and investors at several Boston-area companies declined to speak on the record about the governor’s plan, though in private, they are grumbling.
“That’s not how you treat one of your most successful industries,” said one local biotech executive.
“The fear I have is we put a policy in place that hasn’t been tested,” he said. “It will send a very strong signal to innovators: If you are successful in creating a breakthrough medicine, in this state you will be subjected to the most severe consequences in terms of pricing.”
The biopharma industry is a force on Beacon Hill. MassBio’s Coughlin is a former state representative who also worked in the Patrick administration. Before that, former House speaker Thomas Finneran led the trade group.
So elected officials have been reluctant to take on the industry, said state Senator Mark Montigny, a New Bedford Democrat and longtime critic of drug companies.
“Beacon Hill has coddled Big Pharma,” Montigny said. “Because it’s such a successful industry, many leaders on Beacon Hill have gotten ga-ga on life sciences.”
What drugs are they on?
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They need to find a better Work $pace:
Making medicine on the mountain
It's about a Vermont herbalist and her apothecary.
[I suppose now is the appropriate time to mention the full-page Total Wine ad on A12]
Hey, looks like you got yourself a front seat today:
Confessions of a Red Line defector
Since the June 11 derailment, the hypocrite has avoided the T — even if it means sitting in traffic.
Edelman is mad as hell, but won’t ditch the T because if they slink off to their cars, there will be fewer angry voices demanding action and train accidents are often the result of poor railway infrastructure and official negligence.
Meet Boston’s new parks director
Caught on video: close encounter with a whale near Gloucester
6 sea turtles released at West Dennis Beach after months of recovery from hypothermia
Dennis Port woman suffers serious injuries after being struck by delivery truck
Hit by a beer truck!
Two people rescued from raging Lynn house fire
Late Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter lies in state at City Hall
Just another day in history.
For-profit school will pay $1.6m in debt relief, cease operations in Mass. as part of settlement
Bill allowing 'X' gender on licenses becomes law in New Hampshire
"A black prison employee is suing the Connecticut Department of Correction, alleging she was suspended without pay for complaining about a corrections officer who displayed a Confederate flag in his vehicle....."
Wynn offers investors a glimpse of Everett’s development potential
Can you believe they turned down a room ‘upgrade’and are fighting to get their money back?
I didn't know he was married to Ann Wedgeworth, and two of my favorite movies of his were Down Periscope and Canadian Bacon.
Few seem to care about CBS’s ‘Love Island’
That's because the general public is sick of self-centered, self-indulgent, reality show slop.
Did you see the Stones at Gillette?
Uma was in the crowd.
Uma, Jerry!
She ain't no dog, that's for sure, and we didn't start the fire.
Poet and former Youth Laureate Amanda Gorman has book deal
‘The Farewell’ director Lulu Wang sets sci-fi movie next
I wonder how much tax loot that is going to cost Ma$$achu$etts taxpayers.
Funeral held for Eva ‘Liz’ McDonough; woman once targeted by Mafia boss
Why didn't she make the movie?
