Kristen Lombardi tells us that a law-and-order parole board has drastically limited supervised release — so Massachusetts inmates go straight from prison to the streets ;

Dorie Clark explains that as Campaign 2001 heats up, politicians are making their pitch in the forgotten medium of local-access TV;

Sandeep Kaushik over the past six months the painkiller OxyContin has become the subject of a media frenzy. But is the addiction 'epidemic' real?

Tinker Ready informs us that Americans have only recently begun to experiment with body work, herbs, acupuncture, and other forms of Oriental medicine. Cambodians have been doing it forever.

In the Phoenix editorial, the governor’s smart moves on welfare, pollution, and human-service hiring policies mark a refreshing change from the status quo.

In Talking Politics, Seth Gitell for all the fuss made about South Boston in the Ninth Congressional District, the neighborhood is losing its clout. The heart of the district now lies in West Roxbury

In Urban Buy, Mike Miliard asks his dad about skimboards

Plus, this just in:

DEPT. OF SELF-CONGRATULATION : Kennedy wins national media-criticism award
CHANGE OF HEART : Abortion preconceptions
SOMERVILLE: If you build it, they will shun
HEALTH : Leechy keen
RELEASE ME : Peltier’s last stand
ENVIRONMENT : Fun in the sun
MEDIA: The Globe and the greens
RANT : Working on the railroad

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