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New England Robotics Research Leaders to Share Their Vision at MassTLC’s Future of Robotics Summit

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:07:56 GMT

2009-12-01 15:05:00 - with a presentation on technology transfer opportunities and tours of MIT’s Robotics Labs.
Source: PR-Inside.com

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. Announces Completion of CNB Financial Corp. Acquisition and Appointment of Director and Senior Officers

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:06:31 GMT

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. , Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United Financial Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: UBNK), parent of United Bank, announced today that it completed its acquisition of CNB Financial Corp.
Source: PR Newswire

Maurice Clemmons could become Mike Huckabee's Willie Horton

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:45:15 GMT

English said it's hard to avoid comparing the case to Horton, a convicted killer who raped a woman and assaulted her fiance while on release as part of a prison furlough program supported by Michael Dukakis when he was governor of...
Source: Belleville News-Democrat

COMMENTARY -- Hardest Hit By Obamacare

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:44:46 GMT

Editor's Note: - This column was written with Eileen McGann. --- The "health-care reform" bills in Congress would hit 39 states hard with new expenses, by raising Medicaid eligibility above the cur rent income cutoffs.
Source: GOPUSA

Massachusetts Man Spent Millions In Stolen Trust Funds On Jets And Mistresses

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:39:59 GMT

What happens with a trustee uses the trusts' funds to buy jets, homes for mistresses, and golf memberships for himself and his sons?
Source: The Business Insider

Will Afghanistan Be a 2010 Campaign Issue? -- By: Jim Geraghty

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:58:58 GMT

Hotline notices three Democrats running for Senate - Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, and Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter - are opposing the surge of additional troops in Afghanistan.
Source: National Review Online

Web-based consignment boutique supports local charities

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:46:12 GMT

Lee McCue of Hingham wanted to spice up her wardrobe with a sleeveless black lace blouse by Nanette Lepore that she purchased at a consignment fashion trunk show in Hingham. But she did more than add pizzazz.
Source: The Patriot Ledger

Climategate exposed: Conservative media distort stolen emails in latest attack on global warming consensus

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:20:12 GMT

BECK: How about Phil Jones, head of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia? "I have just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years to hide the decline."
Source: Media Matters for America

Quoted in 'Bottle bill a revenue boon for New York'

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:02:19 GMT

said in Bennington Banner:

If they are Vermont or Massachusetts bottles, they won’t go through the machine

Quoted in 'City councilor: Bring USS John F. Kennedy to Boston'

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:14:58 GMT

said in Boston Globe:

Obviously, Boston and Massachusetts are proud of our associations with the Kennedys, and we just lost the lion of the Senate a few months ago

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:38:40 GMT

Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke, left, gets a hug from Victoria Reggie Kennedy as Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. looks on, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington following a ceremony where Brooke received the Co...

Photo from AP Photo

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:38:39 GMT

Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke, left, gets a hug from Victoria Reggie Kennedy as Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. looks on, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, following a ceremony where Brooke received his C...

Bee Gees Massachusetts

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:14:47 GMT