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Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation. Think about that. When probation was invented
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Arrests are ugly. When they include physical confrontation, they're uglier. But it's no good to just say you disagree with what Cambridge cops did the other night when confronted with an agitated naked man in a street. You must also say what you would have done
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What we haven't heard in any of the pronouncements on the various Massachusetts State Police scandals is the one thing that's vital: A full and public account of what happened.
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Could you find a better Catholic to honor than Senator Dick Durbin? Durbin sought legislation to force organizations to provide contraceptives among its health care benefits – even if such a mandate opposed an organization's beliefs (like, maybe, nuns).
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Is there anything odder than The Boston Globe criticizing a Republican candidate for not being Republican enough? That's where Geoff Diehl finds himself today. The Republican state representative from Whitman running for U.S. Senate was outed Wednesday as having been a registered Democrat from 1996 through at
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State officials need to fix whatever led to the Massachusetts State Police scandals TrooperGate and LeighaGate – and do it publicly. The forced retirements of the two top State Police officials in November and of two more high-ranking officers this week are not enough.
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Syllabus WEEI Sensitivity Training Boston, Massachusetts Friday, February 16, 2018
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Let's not waste time on whether Northeastern Professor Barry Bluestone wants to see President Donald Trump killed. He says he doesn't, and we believe him.
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