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Comment on: 51 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll to rise - News - Boston.com
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Comment on: MBTA to open two new stations on Fairmount Commuter Rail Line - Metro - The Boston Globe
What a line like this needs is smaller trains at near-subway frequency. Electrify it (overhead, 25K volts, same as Amtrak) and use multiple-unit cars the way it's done elsewhere. Or, barring having t more »
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Comment on: Truck in Texas gets repossessed with baby inside - Parent Buzz - Boston.com
Perhaps it wasn't intentional however it was a negligent thing for the repo company to have done and could have ended badly had the weather been extreme. There should be fines, enough to make them ta more »
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Comment on: No salvation for anyone on the wrong side of Menino - Opinion - The Boston Globe
Long past time for Menino to be replaced and for Boston to place term limits on its mayors.
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Comment on: Parents should have had a handle on kidâs toy gun - Letters - The Boston Globe
A toy did not put anyone's safety in jeopardy. The school establishment has taken collective leave of its senses. What was the net benefit of this absurd over-the-top action and to whom? To the child more »
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Comment on: Suspension lifted for Hopkinton 5-year-old who brought toy gun to school - Metro - The Boston Globe
This is foolish overreaction my bureaucratized school personnel who have abandoned any notion of making the punishment fit the offense. There have been stories of little kids being suspended or hauled more »
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Comment on: Ending a friendship, the old-fashioned way - Magazine - The Boston Globe
When you're ill some day and need someone to stop at the grocery for you to pick up some essentials perhaps you can have your Facebook contacts help you out. Oops - they can't, can they, 'cause they' more »
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Comment on: Bunnies taking toll on cars at Denver airport - News - Boston.com
Mothballs in a perforated container repel rodents and will probably work on rabbits as well. They can't stand the smell.
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Comment on: 400,000 lose power; cleanup continues - Boston. - Flash Player Installation
Those penalties for violating the Governor's travel ban were over the top. A year in jail for driving -as if that would ever actually be imposed. It's disproportionate. I doubt that penalty would pass more »
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Comment on: Blizzard over for most, let the cleanup continue - Weather Wisdom - Boston.com
It's snowing full force in Needham at 8:54. No letup.
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Comment on: Lahey Clinic charges hospital fees to patient - - Boston.com
This is a very common and unjustifiable practice. The major university-affiliated teaching hospital system in Worcester took over a community primary care facility in Ware, MA and appended facility c more »
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Comment on: All 19 Sleep HealthCenters clinics close abruptly - Boston.com
This is the logical outcome of the movement of sleep studies from labs to home using small microprocessor-controlled devices which are shipped to the user and returned to the vendor for interpretation more »
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Comment on: Do penalties for smokers and the obese make sense? - Lifestyle - Boston.com
Daniel Callahan's use of the terms "shamed and stigmatized" to characterize how, in his view, those who are overweight should be treated is repulsive in the extreme. Those who are morbidly obese need more »
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Comment on: College dining hallsâ latest challenge: gluten-free - Metro - The Boston Globe
Mercy, yes - on those who are afflicted with celiac disease and for whom every meal needing to be purchased outside the home is a challenge. Educate yourself a little: try business travel; by plane is more »
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Comment on: Amtrak, MBTA commuter rail riders may face delays again getting home tonight - Boston.com
Such a lot of noise from so many people! A pantograph on the 5AM Acela snagged a 25,000 volt overhead power wire. No conspiracy theories needed to explain the cascade of delays. Amtrak at least kept more »
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Comment on: Chris Christie should not be judged by weight or photo-op - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I'll take an obese, competent and compassionate candidate over a trim, fit clone of W or over a Romney any day.
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Comment on: Parents fighting judge over daughter's pregnancy: What do you think? - Parent Buzz - Boston.com
It sounds as if the parents, who lined up potential adoptive families, may not be putting their daughter's interests first. Furthermore if she's on certain combinations of anticonvulsant medications, more »
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Comment on: - Opinion - The Boston Globe
I'm all for Texas seceding IF we can then saw it loose from the rest of the country, push it out into the Gulf a little way and create a few thousand miles' worth of new beachfront property. more »
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Comment on: Mitt Romney planned Boston Harbor fireworks show that was scotched by election loss - Boston.com
Kinda like "Dewey defeats Truman", huh? Didn't even carry his home town. Bye, Mitt... more »
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Comment on: Mitt Romney planned Boston Harbor fireworks show that was scotched by election loss - Boston.com
Kinda like "Dewey defeats Truman", huh? Didn't even carry his home town. Bye, Mitt... more »
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Comment on: T closing Porter, Davis, Alewife stations on four weekends this fall - Cambridge - Your Town - Boston.com
More to the point is why these 27 year old tunnels are in such poor shape when much older ones in Boston and elsewhere are holding up quite well. Don't build 'em the way they used to....
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Comment on: Full report on Newton police chief raises more questions about behavior at the agency - News - Boston.com
Calls for a reprimand and some education at most, not a firing. In the end the department was seemingly doing its job - keeping the city safe.
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Comment on: Amtrak to run test trains at 165 m.p.h in Northeast - Business - The Boston Globe
This is all well and good however it's window dressing. It's about 150 miles from the Route 128 suburban station in Westwood, MA to New Haven and about 72 or 75 from New Haven to Penn Station yet New more »
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Just because an international organization, hated and feared by a certain element among our population, has promulgated a sustainable-growth agenda doesn't make the goal of that agenda any less legiti more »
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Comment on: Why not let the bake sale crumble? - Opinion - The Boston Globe
It should be left to the town or perhaps the school to determine if there will be any sales of any kind during school hours and if so, of what. Anti-bullying mandates are appropriate for imposition at more »
All else aside, must Boston.com tag a 15 second ad onto a video of a disaster? Is it all that important to squeeze another nickel out of it? Ads on frivolous features are one thing - it's almost obsce more »