UPDATE: Bob from BePo has posted the layoff list of city employees the city released today. See his post below. Thanks Bob. (You’re right. It
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Finch To Prune Police To Close Budget Gap, Plus: Shays Hits Executive Pay
I do not recall in my 30 years covering the city, a mayor eliminating cops from the workforce, but that’s what Mayor Bill Finch announced
Read moreHey Sarah, Eat My Nutmeg, Plus: More Shays-Himes Sparring Sessions
Polls, polls and more polls from the presidential race. Press releases, spin doctors, side kicks, back kicks, back flips. I’m getting whiplash from the avalanche of emails
Read moreThe Council’s Counsel, Plus: Lenny, Mandy And Tizzy, And Earth To McCain
This one will be fun to watch. It probably doesn’t have the force of law and won’t become a major issue again until the 2011 mayoral election,
Read moreThe Financial Heat, Plus: Mojica Qualifies For Ballot
What the hell is going on around here? Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy protection. Merrill Lynch agrees to sell to Bank of America. Insurance giant
Read moreMessage In A Bottle
It’s not every day that the most powerful woman in America (no, not Sarah; well not yet, anyway) visits locally. Speaker of the House Nancy
Read moreSarah’s Got A Gun, Plus: Cool Cops, Himes Happenings And School Progress
Good gravy, Sarah Palin, I take back everything I said about you. All of it. Every word. Now I realize why John McCain put you
Read moreThe Poop On Palin, Plus: City Council In Bondage, and Polenta With Pelosi
John McCain didn’t enlist a running mate, he hired himself an attack dog from Alaska leading a sled over a cliff. Tacky, surly, mean, nasty and strident
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