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City Councilor Rob Consalvo names advisers to mayoral campaign
City Councilor Rob Consalvo announced Wednesday that several political advisers had joined his campaign for mayor, including Democratic strategist Tad Devine, who worked on presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John F. Kerry. Devine and another political operative, Mark Longabaugh, will serve as senior advisers to Consalvo. Devine and Longabaugh run a Democratic media consulting firm based in Washington. Consalvo also announced his field director will be Jeff Knochin, who worked on US Representative Stephen F. Lynch’s failed US Senate bid.
Can Boston be safe for bicycles?
http://imgur.com/Dkxas Forget about the mayor's race; one of Boston's toughest rivalries is the ongoing battle between bicycles and cars. The city has recently taken......
Starts & Stops
Helmet vending machines set to debut, and a cycle track in the works for the Seaport District
Last week was a big one for bike news, what with Boston Bike Week, a deluge of bike-to-work exhortations, and the release of the city's comprehensive bike crash report.
White Coat Notes
Clipboard: Lawmakers cut money to boost pharmacies inspections following outbreak
After failures at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy caused hundreds of people to be sickened by tainted drugs, state officials called for ...
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Afghanistan civilians: April 2013

Articles of Faith

Religious leaders working on interfaith service
Religious leaders are working with the governor's office to develop Thursday morning's interfaith service in memory of the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

In the Cards

Mohegan Sun adds Boston retail developer as partner in Palmer proposal
Mohegan Sun today announced a partnership with Finard Properties, a Boston-based commercial real estate investment and development company, to build a 300,000 square foot retail development as part of Mohegan's proposed casino resort in Palmer.

War and Peace

Top military scientist: building a cyber army with few qualified recruits
The Air Force has a message for computer geeks: send us your resumes. At least that is the word from Mark Maybury, a computer scientist at the government-funded MITRE corporation in Bedford who was tapped in 2010 to serve as the chief scientist for the US Air Force. The Lowell native and Chelmsford resident, who will return from Washington to his old job this summer, says the Pentagon is struggling to maintain its technological edge in the realm of cyberspace. And a primary reason is a lack of new talent. "If you told me I want you to hire 1,000 cyber guys tomorrow, I'd count up all my friends and might have 60 or if really lucky might find 100," he explained. "But 1,000?"

Science in Mind

Senators oppose pending shutdown of MIT fusion experiment
The news that a nuclear fusion experiment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will shut down in a year and half and that the project's employees have received layoff notices has raised more objections.
Interactions Corp. collects $40 million in new funding to make customer service calls less frustrating
Big new round of funding being announced today by a Franklin-based startup, Interactions Corp. And it’s being led by Steve Murray, a venture capitalist based in the Newton office of Softbank Capital....
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Connecticut news

  • Bill would block release of some Newtown records

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's office and Connecticut's top prosecutor are working privately with lawmakers to craft legislation that would block the public release of certain records from the Newtown school massacre and possibly other crimes. (   05/22/2013 12:48 PM )

  • Biden says Coast Guard faces growing demands

    NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden told cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that they face a world in which their job is getting more complicated. (   05/22/2013 12:37 PM )

  • Metro-North back on schedule after repairs

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Regular train service has returned to Connecticut, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks. (   05/22/2013 7:09 AM )

  • UConn ends Wolf's suspension, returns as walk-on

    STORRS, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut center Enosch Wolf has been reinstated to the team following a decision last month by prosecutors to drop charges in a domestic violence case. (   05/22/2013 6:02 AM )

  • UConn ends Wolf's suspension, returns as walk-on

    STORRS, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut center Enosch Wolf has been reinstated to the team following a decision last month by prosecutors to drop charges in a domestic violence case. (   05/22/2013 5:38 AM )

  • Ceremony planned for fallen Conn. soldier

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A ceremony is planned at the state Capitol complex to honor a Connecticut soldier recently killed in Afghanistan. (   05/22/2013 3:03 AM )

  • SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Sotomayor at Yale

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the author of a unanimous decision delivered at the Supreme Court on Monday, but Sotomayor was hundreds of miles from Washington when the court convened. (   05/22/2013 2:10 AM )

  • Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford dies at 79

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was 79. An obituary prepared by Judge Ford's family says he died Sunday in Fairfield after battling declining health following a stroke in 2006. Judge Ford grew up in Bridgeport, graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1955, and earned his law degree from Georgetown University in 1958. He worked as a private lawyer and public defender until Governor Thomas J. Meskill nominated him for Superior Court judge in 1973.(   05/22/2013 12:00 AM )

  • Bill requires labels for genetically modified food

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut lawmakers are pushing ahead with bipartisan legislation requiring the labeling of food containing genetically modified ingredients. (   05/21/2013 9:55 PM )

  • Conn. bill allows parole review for juveniles

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Legislation that would give a second chance to certain juvenile offenders serving lengthy prison sentences in Connecticut easily cleared the House of Representatives on Tuesday. (   05/21/2013 7:31 PM )

  • Jury convicts aide to former Conn. House speaker

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former aide to ex-Connecticut House Speaker Christopher Donovan in connection with illegal contributions to Donovan's failed congressional campaign last year. (   05/21/2013 6:32 PM )

  • Committee OKs universal background checks for guns

    CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- Family members of victims slain by various acts of gun violence across the country converged on Nevada's Capitol Tuesday urging lawmakers to approve universal background checks on gun purchases in the Silver State. (   05/21/2013 5:57 PM )

  • Sharkey says Conn. budget deal progressing

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Democratic House Speaker Brendan Sharkey says progress is being made on reaching a final budget agreement with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and he's optimistic the Connecticut General Assembly will vote on it before the looming adjournment. (   05/21/2013 4:53 PM )

  • Ex-Goldman exec seeks insider trading retrial

    NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co. urged an appeals court panel Tuesday to give his client a new trial, saying a judge had excluded evidence that might have led a jury to acquit him on insider trading charges. (   05/21/2013 4:42 PM )

  • Conn. rail service to return to normal Wednesday

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- After a nearly four-hour commute Tuesday morning, Orlando Cordero was thrilled to hear train service was returning to normal as workers were finishing repair to tracks damaged by last week's train collision in Bridgeport. (   05/21/2013 4:38 PM )

  • Jury convicts ex-aide to former Connecticut House speaker in campaign donations scheme

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Jury convicts ex-aide to former Connecticut House speaker in campaign donations scheme. (   05/21/2013 4:19 PM )

  • Malloy lauds tourism promo at Hartford conference

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut's "Still Revolutionary" tourism marketing campaign is succeeding and deserves continued funding, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday. (   05/21/2013 4:02 PM )

  • ESPN cutting workforce, 'smartly managing costs'

    NEW YORK (AP) -- ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff. (   05/21/2013 3:27 PM )

  • Conn. regionalism panel calls for car tax changes

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A bipartisan legislative commission recommended Tuesday that Connecticut begin a multiyear process of phasing out the local property tax on motor vehicles. (   05/21/2013 3:17 PM )

  • With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely

    SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved -- and disable it remotely. (   05/21/2013 2:42 PM )

  • Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford dies at 79

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was 79. (   05/21/2013 2:20 PM )

  • United Tech CEO sees stronger economy, airlines

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- The chief executive of aerospace giant United Technologies Corp. is optimistic about an improving economy and airline industry. (   05/21/2013 2:09 PM )

  • Official: No drugs, alcohol found in Conn. gunman

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Toxicology tests on the body of the Newtown school shooter did not turn up any alcohol, illegal drugs or prescription medications, an official close to the investigation said Tuesday. (   05/21/2013 1:21 PM )