Greyhound can’t explain large fee added to bus ticket
What does a $22 one-way Greyhound bus ticket cost? If you’re paying your own way and you guessed $22, you’re right. But if someone is paying for you, or if you’re paying for someone else, a $22 ticket costs $40.
MassHealth suffers attention-to-details deficit disorder
Welcome to MassHealth? Sometimes it's a welcome for which residents have to fight. I’ve had an amazing time on the phone today with MassHealth, the state agency that provides required health care to the needy. And by amazing, I mean pretty bad. Lac …
Two twists on traditions
What are we eating this year? Groceries and specialty stores unique to the area say this Thanksgiving the traditional foods predominate — with little twists. “Turkeys, of course, fresh and organic,” lists Chris Durkin, at The Harvest Co-op in Central S …
Gargoyle watches over neighborhood left behind
This six-inch stone gargoyle — perched between two telephone poles on Orchard and Blake streets, near Porter Square — is charming most people. (Photo: Ken S. Kotch) Many may be familiar with Disney’s rendition of the gargoyle archetype from the car …
Gift idea whose time has come (at the last minute)
An unidentified man ponders a prewrapped-gift display — the perfect “man gift” — in the Porter Square, Cambridge, Star Market on Nov. 7, 2005. (Photo: Marc Levy) Gift certificates were the big trend in holiday presents last year, and many moaned that t …
Heroin traffickers drive around laws
Police patrol Inman Square on Oct. 30, 2005, as reports of drug use flare in Cambridge. (Photo: Ken S. Kotch) Heroin is here, and it’s cheap. The people of Inman Square say they can see it every day, in the form of needles left in bathrooms, open-air d …
