US – Tuesday, February 9
The Senate’s Weak Health Care Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “got to 60” at 1:08 yesterday morning, clearing a key Republican hurdle and keeping the Senate’s version of a health care reform bill on track for passage before Christmas.
 
Patrick jumps on jobs bandwagon
As Washington leaders work furiously on national job creation legislation, their Beacon Hill counterparts are now doing the same. Tomorrow, Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to detail plans that include offering a $2,500 tax credit for every new job a small business adds — a move that could wind up creating 20,000 positions.
 
DeLeo wants house troops to go retail
Speaker Robert DeLeo has a message for the seven score or so House Democrats who will try to get reelected in the fall: Scram.
 
Will a two-phase plan ever finish?
For years, Somerville and Medford residents have anxiously awaited the Green Line's extension into their transit-deprived neighborhoods. But now it’s a question of how far the MBTA line will actually go.
 
For a really good time, call ahead
As Marvin Gaye so beautifully sang, “Let’s get it on.” Who are we to disagree, especially with so many smoochable spots to enjoy Valentine’s Day? It doesn’t have to cost the earth, either. 
 
[not too shabby]
“[title of show]” is a silly, little show filled with nudge- nudge, wink-wink moments and enough self-congratulations to make a Hollywood award show look like a spiritually-driven mission of mercy. And though there’s been a dearth of musicals that proclaim, “look at us, we’re a musical making fun of musicals,” there’s something fresh and oddly charming about this one.
 
Beanpot on its way back to the Heights
The outdoor game at Fenway Park last month went to Boston University.
 
What’s next for the Bruins?
After 10 agonizing games filled with near-misses, bad breaks and downright sloppy play, the Bruins ended their epic losing streak with a cathartic win on Sunday. Now that the distraction of that brutal run is over, here’s what to look for as the Bruins go forward:

 
T time
What to do and where to go. 
 
Published 16:21, September the 12th, 2008
 

Bravery, and hope

Papapietro and Murray
 
Papapietro and Murray Photo: Nicolaus Czarnecki/metro
 

Seven years removed from the day that changed their lives forever, family members of local 9/11 victims echoed a theme yesterday at the State House.

Hope.
“Without hope there would be very little meaning in our lives,” said Christie Coombs, whose husband was on American Airlines Flight 11. “Hope is what has gotten us through the last seven years.”

Rina E. Zarba lost a nephew that day but still found enough to pen a positive poem moments later.
“We will keep alive the memory of your birth,” Zarba wrote of Christopher Zarba, choosing not to dwell on what took his life at the age of 47.

While positive memories are held sacred, tears still flow. They came as 16-year-old Katie Mayhew moved the room with a rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” and again during a video tribute to victims.

In between, mourners cheered Benjamin Papapietro, recipient of the Madeline “Amy” Sweeney Award for Civilian Bravery — named for the flight attendant on Flight 11 who called in key information on the hijackers.

Papapietro, 19, was on one of the trains in the T’s fatal Green Line crash in May. After safely embarking, he raced to the muffled cries of a trapped woman, shielded her face from acrid smoke and held her hand until help came.

In keeping with 9/11 and its heroes, Papapietro introduced a second theme — humility.
“I’m just really happy the woman I helped, Min Perry, is OK,” he said. “That’s all that matters.”

 
 
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MMMpod
The February MMMpod features conversation from Ozzy Osbourne. Michael Emerson from "Lost" tells us about his days enjoying punk rock in Boston. We also dig up an old interview from the late great Howard Zinn. We have a song from Delta Spirit and The Soft Pack, who tell us where they got their name.