Later today a 32-year-old police officer whose friends and colleagues describe as thoughtful and honorable will have a funeral Mass in Yarmouth because a 29-year-old man with 125 entries on his rap sheet shot him in the head because he had violated probation.
Think about that. When probation was invented in the 1840s (in Boston), the point was to provide convicts with an adjustment to life on the outside so they wouldn't just go right back to stealing.
Pay and other compensation for Mount Ida College's president and other executives increased while its increasing debt load threatened to drive it out of business.
The board of trustees of the small college in Newton kept approving significant increases in salary for president Barry Brown and other leading officials during the last few years leading up to the college's decision to close and sell the campus to the University of Massachusetts, according to the Boston Business Journal.
