Businesses feel impact of too much snow

For local businesses, this has been a winter of too much and too little. (T&G;)

‘Mathematics of Love’ earns veteran guitarist high praise

Sometimes it takes awhile to get to play the blues the way you want to. (T&G;)

Homelessness is a woman’s issue. Homelessness in our community is often misunderstood due to the lack of visibility of homeless women and their children on city streets. Unlike many homeless single men, you will not see them panhandling with their children. Instead, they are “couch surfing” at friends’ or families’ residences or living in cars and shelters, in an effort to keep themselves and their children safe and warm. (T&G;)
The costs of providing health care to municipal retirees have been building, largely out of public view, for many years. A report issued this week by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation has finally brought the issue into the open — and estimated the total liabilities for cities and towns in Massachusetts at about $20 billion. (T&G;)
It almost sounds like something out of the wild, wild West. (T&G;)

Public trough feeding frenzy unsustainable

We can no longer pretend that we live in a classless society. (T&G;)

Task force submits Probation Dept. revamp

BOSTON - A task force appointed by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to review the state’s troubled Probation Department is rejecting key proposals made by Gov. Deval Patrick and House Speaker Robert DeLeo.

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