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Sep 19, 2010
Mayor Menino declares war on owners of dangerous properties in wake of blaze // Crackdown targets ‘life or death’ safety hazards — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jessica Fargen Source:
Boston Herald City inspectors are embarking tomorrow on a daunting, unprecedented crackdown on owners of vacant and unsafe buildings as officials sound new alarms about the dangers in nearly 150 problem properties. The team from the fire, inspectional services and other departments will start in East Boston and make their way through the city, going into all 147 empty or abandoned properties deemed dangerous by the fire department. “The goal is to put the pressure on these owners of these properties to restore ...
Mar 30, 2010
Mega-million dollar Boston homes sit on market with few takers — Boston Herald
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Boston Herald Much was made of the news this month when a Beacon Hill developer was unable to sell his home for an acceptable price, but the lack of wealthy buyers appears to be more-widespread in that neighborhood and in the Back Bay. Currently, there are seven single-family homes in Boston priced at over $10 million. The most-recent listing came on the market fifty days ago while the prize for longest is held by an historic home at 128 Commonwealth Avenue owned by ...
Nov 18, 2009
Scientology’s top gun pays respects — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gayle Fee ,
Laura Raposa Source:
Boston Herald Hollywood heavy Tom Cruise looked like just another member of The Firm the other night when he turned up at attorney Earle Cooley’s jam-packed memorial service at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse .
The “Knight & Day” leading man, wearing a dark suit and his trademark Tinseltown smile, joined rarely seen Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige at the service for Cooley, who was the religious group’s legal Top Gun for more than 25 years. Talk about Risky Business . . ...
Oct 1, 2009
Travolta: Defendants demanded $25M — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Gayle Fee ,
Laura Raposa Source:
Boston Herald Hollywood A-Lister John Travolta testified in a Bahamian extortion trial yesterday that he was told unless he paid $25 million, stories would be sold to the news media implying he was to blame for his is son’s death.
Travolta said his longtime friend and employee Ronald Zupancic first told him of the alleged threat Jan. 16 - two weeks after Travolta’s son, Jett, 16, died of a seizure during a family vacation in the Bahamas.
Former paramedic Tarino Lightbourne and former ...
Apr 15, 2008
Planned academy tied to Scientology // 'Cult'-linked pilot school gains $20K grant — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
David Wedge Source:
Boston Herald A proposed taxpayer-funded pilot school linked to an arm of the controversial Church of Scientology has scored a $20,000 grant from a blue-chip Hub charitable foundation, the Herald has learned. The Boston Foundation recently awarded the planning grant to the proposed "Cornerstone for Success Academy," a high school for at-risk students that would base its curriculum on a model created by Applied Scholastics International - the educational arm of the Church of Scientology. The celebrity-backed religious organization is often criticized as ...
Jun 30, 2005
The press vs. Scientology — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joe Strupp Source:
Salon After years of conflict, the church and the media seem to have reached a truce. Is it because Scientology has become less confrontational — or because the press is scared? For anyone interested in the Church of Scientology, the May 6, 1991, issue of Time magazine remains a milestone in news coverage. For those who back the church, it ran an outrageously biased account that eventually led to a libel suit by the church — later dismissed — and prompted Scientology ...
Feb 10, 2001
Scientology-linked project to get scrutiny — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steve Marantz Source:
Boston Herald A top Menino administration official said yesterday that a literacy project with ties to the Church of Scientology will be closely monitored in its use of city funds to help school-age children read. The group, H.E.L.P. Boston, received a $1,000 grant from the city's Safe Neighborhood Fund. The grant was approved by officials who knew of the program's connection to the controversial Scientology movement. But they apparently failed to tell Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who in a statement released by his ...
Feb 9, 2001
Scientology-linked project gets city grant — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Steve Marantz Source:
Boston Herald Mayor Thomas M. Menino has endorsed a literacy project affiliated with the Church of Scientology, which critics say is a step towards offering cult-like teachings to school children. When Menino posed for a photo at a December awards ceremony with the director of H.E.L.P. Boston - and gave a $1,000 city grant to the group - aides said they were aware that the group teaches a "study technology" developed by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the movement. But Menino, through a ...
Dec 10, 1998
Scientology wants city's kids — NOW MagazineMore: nowtoronto.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Enzo Di Matteo Source:
NOW Magazine Quaint Clarkson, tucked away on the westernmost edge of Mississauga, seems as unlikely a place as any to find L. Ron Hubbard, sci-fi-writer-turned-icon and founder of the much-vilified Church of Scientology.
But here, just past the picket fences and over the train tracks where the old post office used to be, the portrait that graces Hubbard's opus Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health – sailor cap, face turned upward, blue sky in the background – hangs in the foyer of ...
Mar 19, 1998
Church of Scientology probes Herald reporter - Investigation follows pattern of harassment — Boston Herald
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim MacLaughlin ,
Andrew Gully Source:
Boston Herald The Church of Scientology, stung by a five-part series in the Boston Herald that raised questions about its practices, has hired a private investigator to delve into the Herald reporter's private life. The Rev. Heber Jentzsch, president of the Church of Scientology International, confirmed that the church's Los Angeles law firm hired the private investigative firm to look into the personal life of reporter Joseph Mallia, who wrote the series. "This investigation will have to look at what's riving this" coverage, ...
Mar 5, 1998
Scientology group reaches kids through PBS videos — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 4, 1998
Battle sites in the Web war — Boston HeraldMore: apologeticsindex.org
Mar 4, 1998
Church, enemies wage war on Internet battlefield — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 4, 1998
Sacred teachings not secret anymore — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 3, 1998
Scientology reaches into schools through Narconon — Boston HeraldMore: scientology-lies.com , rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joseph Mallia Source:
Boston Herald An organization with ties to the Church of Scientology is recruiting New England schoolchildren for what critics say is an unproven — and possibly dangerous — anti-drug program. And the group — Narconon Inc. of Everett — is being paid with taxpayer dollars without disclosing its Scientology connections. Narconon was paid at least $942,853 over an eight-year period for delivering anti-drug lectures at public and parochial schools throughout the region, according to federal income tax documents. The money came from fees ...
Mar 2, 1998
Church keys programs to recruit blacks — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 2, 1998
Milton school shades ties to Scientology — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 1, 1998
A broader look at the organization — Boston Herald
Mar 1, 1998
Judge Found Hubbard lied about achievements — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 1, 1998
Powerful church targets fortunes, souls of recruits — Boston HeraldMore: rickross.com , apologeticsindex.org
Mar 1, 1998
The dramatic rise of the organization — Boston Herald
Jan 28, 1998
Hardball: When Scientology goes to court, it likes to play rough -- very rough. — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
May 21, 1991
Letters // A bum rap for Scientology — Boston HeraldMore: link
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Boston Herald With regard to Paul Sullivan's May 8 Celebrity item about Demi Moore (" 'Ghost' film star taking close look at Scientology"): While I can't confirm or deny Moore's interest in the church Sullivan's article missed the mark about what the church is and does. Churches of Scientology are involved in dozens of community service programs that are improving conditions around the world and which have been acknowledged by community leaders, public officials and the media. Among other things, Scientology churches are ...
May 29, 1986
$100G Scientology 'scam' // Feds charge 2 with Mob connections — Boston HeraldMore: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jim MacLaughlin Source:
Boston Herald A DISBARRED lawyer with Mob connections and a Methuen man linked to organized crime were arrested yesterday and charged with trying to bilk the Church of Scientology out of $100,000, said officials. The alleged scam netted Harvey Brower, 49, of Swampscott, and George T. Kattar, 67, of Methuen, $33,333 before they were arrested by FBI agents, said the US. Attorney's office. The two were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston May 23 and charged with fraud, extortion and other ...
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