Leave it the Boston Globe to get itself embroiled in a sex scandal that didn't even happen in Boston. Globe metro reporter Tania deLuzuriaga is one half of a steamy 2007 email exchange that has embarrassed the schools chief of the Miami-Dade school system, the fourth largest in the U.S., and raised serious questions about the professional ethics of both parties. The scandal erupted after email exchanges reputedly between deLuzuriaga, formerly the Miami Herald's schools......

[Yummy muffins photographed by hmmlargeart] Whole Foods makes you poor and fat with its expensive salad bar's giant containers. [Consumerist] Gustav visits Haiti. [CNN] Shockingly enough, requiring people to have health insurance increases the number of people who have health insurance. [Globe] Ad revenue for the NYT's New England Media Group (which includes the Globe) dropped almost 25% in one year. [Phoenix Mitt's in CO; no VP news. [Herald] Though their predecessors had to......

Boston is well-known as a walkable city, but that does it mean it's a safe and walkable city? In an excellent feature article on the relationship between drivers and pedestrians, the Globe calls us "a city where walking is the most dangerous form of transportation (over the last five years, the number of pedestrians killed by cars was double that of drivers and passengers killed in car accidents)." Boston could benefit from Shared Space, a......

There is an unlimited demand for online content; it's an internet rule-of-thumb. And many companies have made bundles of money by figuring out ways to use written content to lure consumers to their websites. Part of the profit equation has been the relatively low cost companies have to pay writers for content; a $5 per thousand clicks Google advertisement gives you a very slim profit margin if you are paying a staff of full-time......

Thanks to the incisive investigative reporting we have come to expect from the Globe, Bostonist will steer clear from Fresh Cheese, at least while owner Carmen "the Cheeseman" DiNunzio is under indictment for an alleged Big Dig bribe attempt. The Cheeseman is banned by court order from his cheese shop, which is an alleged mob hangout. The result? Expired mozzarella. While the Cheeseman sweats out his court date, sandwich lovers in the North End wonder......

The Globe reports that a former MIT chemist caused an all-out evacuation of her Temple Street brownstone by conducting some freelance science experiments. The woman, who has not been identified by name, had mixed a cocktail of chemicals on the floor of her apartment, directly behind the State House. "Any time you have someone who knows what they're doing with chemicals, it can be a bad situation," Deputy Fire Chief Robert Calobrisi said. No word......

It's some vicious newspaper-on-newspaper action 'round the internet today as the Globe calls out the Herald for slashing jobs as it relocates its printing operations. Publisher Patrick J. Purcells is giving the planned move 90 days for consideration, but would like to have printing services moved by the end of September. Chicopee's Dow Jones & Co. plant will print every edition of the Herald except Saturday's, which will be printed by a Boston Offset press......

We knew Boston.com loved (Bo)moms, but we didn't know they loved MILFs. Just in time for Samantha Jones' (not a mom, but probably old enough to be your mom) resurgence in the Sex and the City Movie tomorrow, and in keeping with their incessant pandering to Bill Belichick, the Globe's endlessly inventive website has come out with a classy cougar gallery to show their love for the ladies time has smiled on. What's next, BoMILFs.com?......

--Mayor Menino hops on a bike in honor of Bike Week. [Boston Globe] --Local residents with family in China react to the news of the recent earthquake. [Boston Herald] --House Speaker Sal Di Masi is mad as hell at the suggestion that his ethics are a little shady, and he's not taking it anymore. [Boston Globe] --Two recipients of kidneys from a homeless man infected with LMCV, a rodent virus, have died. [Boston Globe] --Parts......

--Were you affected by the water main burst and the subsequent natural gas problems? There's an emergency center open at City Hall. [WBZ] --Do you still have some champagne left in your Globe Buyout Bottle? Pour another one for Carol Beggy, who worked on the "Names" column. [Boston Phoenix Media Log] --A woman from West Roxbury allegedly encountered sorority hazing from hell at Hofstra University, which is in New York. [WCVB] --Harvard professor Walter......

--The Department of Social Services, whose name has come up more than once in investigations of the deaths of children in this state, received a D minus from the watchdog group the Children's Advocacy Institute. [Boston Herald, DSS in Bostonist] --Bad: A water main broke on Devonshire Street. Worse: The damage was so bad that repairs will continue through the summer. Worst: No hot water or heat until THURSDAY. [WBZ, Boston Globe] --Pour one out......

Machetes have popped up on the Blotter often, and two questions always pop up: a) How does one get a machete? and b) How does one tote around these large knives without getting caught? One item on the BPD Blotter was about a man who was just walking around with his machete dangling from his belt. The Herald decided to investigate. The cover of yesterday's paper is a terrifying number with a thuggy-looking tattoed......

--Bechtel, Parsons & Brinckerhoff still keeps this city on a tight leash. They received $5.3 million after the Big Dig was supposedly finished. [Boston Herald] --Local restaurants are going to stop selling bottled water and get people who want water to drink tap. This news leads to the following question--how do you feel about the local tap water? [WCVB] --The Boston City Council wants to move voting day to Saturday. Voter turnout is so......

"Well-regarded sports journalist covering Boston professional sports in 2008." Seems like a guaranteed job, right? And yet Boston is preparing to say goodbye to its second high-profile sports journo this week. The Globe's Jackie MacMullan agreed to take the latest Globe buyout offer and will be bidding Morrissey Boulevard adieu. News of MacMullan's imminent departure came on Tuesday, the same day word broke that WBZ's Bob Lobel would be saying goodbye to Boston television viewers.......

--Dice-K is a daddy! [Boston Herald] --Yet another Globe reporter, Charles Sennott, is jumping ship. [Media Nation] --Somerville's potential Hotel Davis Square will not be a "fly-by-night Motel 6," so says Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone (especially not one that advertises jacuzzis, right?). [Somerville Journal] --Still feeling the love for freshly former NESN sportscaster Tina Cervasio and the rear end that launched a thousand ships. [Surviving Grady] --Families with money have found a new playground......

--Divers are looking for the body of a man who somehow went from the Mass Pike into Sudbury River last night. [Boston Globe] --The Guardian Angels have decided to send members to Brockton. [WCVB] --A State House committee will hear testimony about whether or not people can sue for emotional distress after the death of a pet. [Boston Herald] --A helpful list of the hearings about Cape Wind that are scheduled for this week.......

Boston's favorite dancing fool has proven that the squeaky wheel really does in fact get the grease. Closer Jonathan Papelbon must have attended the Curt Schilling “How to Use the Media to Your Advantage School." After a week of complaining that he wasn’t being taking care of and how he should get the money he deserved all in the name of baseball, Papelbon got the money he wanted on Thursday afternoon. According to Amalie......

--A Woburn college student was cleared of rape charges after prosecutors could not provide enough evidence that an attack had taken place in a bathroom at Felt nightclub in Boston. The man, 21, continually proclaimed his innocence, and said that any acts were consensual. The prosecution had alleged that the woman was unconscious, but didn't have enough evidence to take the case to trial. [Boston Herald] --Police had surrounded a rape suspect's home in......

--Logan Airport is getting wind turbines. And we look to opponents of Cape Wind to ask, "So, what's your issue with wind power again?" [Boston Globe] --Governor Deval Patrick is putting his weight behind a bill that will protect transgendered people. [Boston Globe] --Brigham & Women's will be the first hospital in the United States to perform partial face transplants. [Boston Globe] --Anyone hear a sizzle? Live wires fell on an MBTA bus today......

--Massachusetts earned a C in state government from the Pew Center. Given the state of the Big Dig, is it any wonder? [Boston Herald] --The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA, which includes Calderwood Pavilion and the Cyclorama) is undergoing a sudden change in leadership. [Boston Globe] --Glenn Ordway, local sports radio host on WEEI, is taking some time off the air because his wife and daughter sustained injuries during childbirth. [Boston Herald] --In related......

The Globe is blushing right now. Columnist Adrian Walker, most frequently seen getting Universal Hub's dander up, was arrested early Sunday on an OUI. Making matters worse for the Globe, he was driving a company car when Transit Police in Dorchester arrested him for speeding. He told officers that he had been at Silvertone earlier. He has pled not guilty. But the word is out. The Globe mentioned the incident in "New England in Brief."......

--Leading off with a happy story: officers in East Boston responded to a car where a woman was in labor. After her water broke in their presence, the police helped deliver the baby, put the baby in a blanket, checked that the baby was breathing properly, and then made sure the family arrived safely at Mass General Hospital. Somebody deserves a raise. [BPD News] --Authorities are investigating a string of robberies targeting illegal immigrants......

--Fraternity brothers at MIT's Delta Upsilon are saying that Robert Wells, who died over the weekend, fell from his window in an accident. [Boston Globe] --Over at the State Senate, Therese Murray has introduced a health-care reform bill. One point of the bill is to demand that health insurance firms explain themselves when they raise their rates. [Boston Herald] --Massachusetts legislators will discuss a bill officially allowing breast-feeding in public because there are still......

--Five men were arrested for the stabbing death of Terrence Jacobs, 16, last May. Everyone arrested is from Dorchester, except one man from Brockton. [Boston Globe] --In a follow-up to the case in which a man stabbed his ex to death, stabbed another woman 8 times, bit a man, and then stabbed himself to death in New Bedford, Jane Doe Inc. notes that the incident marks the sixth domestic violence homicide in Massachusetts this year.......

--So, just how many new construction jobs will the casinos proposed by Governor Deval Patrick create? He said 30,000. An independent analyst says no way: "... building three casinos at a cost of $1 billion each in Massachusetts would create a total of 4,000 to 5,000 new construction jobs for the duration of the building period, probably three years." [Boston Globe] --Now this is cool--A look at BNN's studios in an old Roxbury substation.......

--Two people were killed in a brutal murder-suicide in New Bedford yesterday. A man stabbed a woman with a steak knife before stabbing himself to death. The man also went after the woman's roommates, stabbing one and biting another. [Boston Globe] --Che Sosa, a convicted rapist who is notorious for attacking his own defense attorney in the courtroom with a knife, returned to court yesterday. This time, he was accompanied by well-armed and well-covered guards......

--Some of those who treated the Big Dig like one big, fat ATM are finally getting their just desserts. Yesterday, a Big Dig contractor was charged with trying to overcharge the government by $300,000. They've agreed to plead guilty. [Boston Globe] --Things are getting hotter for Superior Court Judge Richard T. Moses. The Herald is ticking off a list of sex offenders he set free who then went on to commit more crimes. [Boston......

--The state owes snow plow operators $69 million for their work. Now that's a way to thank them for keeping our roads clean. The state has already--ahem--plowed through its snow-plow budget due to the abundance of snow this year. Sorry. Couldn't resist. [Boston Globe] --Two fires broke out at the same building in Fitchburg on Thursday, 12 hours apart. [WCVB] --An author from Dudley, Misha Defonseca, has admitted that she made up a best-selling memoir......

--The body of a dead woman was found in a car in Malden. Police are treating the case as a homicide but have not yet disclosed many details about what might have happened. The family of a woman who has been missing since February 13, the owner of a Malden hair salon, say they are "99 percent sure" it is her. [Boston Globe, WBZ] --A Westfield 14-year-old has miraculously emerged from a long coma......

--The Massachusetts House voted overwhelmingly in favor of preliminary approval to pour $1 billion into life sciences investment over 10 years. [WBZ Radio] --Of course Manny Ramirez would forget about $10,000 that the state of Massachusetts owes him. And if you think the state owes you some money, too, go to findmassmoney.com. [Boston Herald] --Is it just us, or is Bridget Moynahan looking better and classier than ever? Or is it just extended Super......