CHEMO COSTS ... ARE COSTLY

"Many people in this room will have cancer someday," Dr. Omar Eton told the Legislature's Committee on Public Health last week.

THE MENINO LETTERS

Breaking down the mayor's fiery language

One Franklin Street, aka the giant hole in Downtown Crossing formerly known as Filene's Basement, has sat relatively untouched for more than two years.

THE WAR ON TRASH

... will be won by cameras

Graffiti artists and illegal trash dumpers beware: The city of Boston might just be watching you. Copying New York, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and even Providence, the Boston City Council considered boosting a vandalism deterrent that catches taggers and trashers in the act.

A TOKING TAX

Last week, the Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill proposing we "regulate and tax the cannabis industry," so the state can collect tax dollars from adults who toke recreationally and grow for personal use. The only problem is the "cannabis industry" still doesn't legally exist in Massachusetts.

Consensus on the Census

Every ten years, a survey is sent to each household in America to find out just how many people live here.

Answering basic questions that pigeonhole you demographically might not sound that tough, but in the past it's proven to be a sweat-inducing task for many Americans

THE TICKET MATTER

How the marriage of merchants affects Bostonians

Live Nation and Ticketmaster Entertainment have conjoined, creating Live Nation Entertainment (catchy, right?).

Merry merry, sex workers

March 3rd is International Sex Worker Rights Day, and for the first time, Boston's saluting our local escorts and prostitutes, thanks to the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP).

Arborific Atrocities!

A Cambridge Debate

Tempers flared last week as several Cambridge residents gathered to protest (wait for it) ... the removal of trees.

DO AS WE SAY, NOT AS OUR FORMER EMPLOYEE DID

On February 13th, Mayor Tom Menino joined up with the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), the East Boston No Drugs Coalition and Partners HealthCare in a crusade against substance abuse in East Boston ...

URBAN RUNG OUT

If the supporters of the Urban Ring got their way, you wouldn't have to walk to Harvard and wait 90 minutes for the 66 to show up, or take the Red Line into Park Street and then catch the B Line to godknowswhere ...