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Barney v. Bloch

Bush’s house homophobe rubs MA’s House homo the wrong way
Readers of the Phoenix may recall Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel, from the feature article “Bush’s House Homophobe”

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 03, 2006

The US Government is up to something fishy
When local college student Stephanie Bakay took a student-group-abroad trip to Russia in May, she brazenly overbought beluga caviar, flying back into Logan with four jars even though the legal limit is two.

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 03, 2006

FEMA was FUBAR

You know it, we know it, and the Department of Homeland Security knew it, too
In the wake of FEMA’s piss-poor response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the agency repeatedly insisted it had been prepared for the disaster.

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 24, 2006

Bad livers

Medical examiner alleges Massachusetts harvests organs from the undead
Medical examiner Abraham Philip alleges in a Suffolk Superior Court lawsuit that the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) severed his contract because he was acting as a whistleblower.

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 03, 2006

Wet Virgin

A neighborhood quarrel lands a CD superstore in court
Virgin Megastore, on Newbury Street and Mass Ave, is getting upscale upstairs neighbors — eventually.

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | October 27, 2008

Fleecing the flock

Is the Boston Archdiocese stealing from children?
The Boston Archdiocese is closing the South Boston parish of St. Peter, and along with it the St. Peter School. But that’s not all. The Archdiocese is also taking all the money local parents raised for the school through cupcake sales, face-painting booths, and costume contests.

By DAVID BERNSTEIN | March 03, 2006

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