Sean Murphy

Boston

Consumer Advocacy Reporter at The Boston Globe

Reporter @Boston Globe, Suffolk University journalism professor, regular on the Red Line

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Articles

Just like that, the market is back to where it was

1 day ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

During the media-driven hysterics that was the end of the United States economy because President Trump wanted to put a stop to this country getting ‘the hose from the world,’ a coworker of my wife’s called. The stories were everywhere, fomented by a media whose desire to see Trump fail is surpassed by liberals wanting him to fail, that everyone’s 401K was about to be gone forever. Trump, the moron, had destroyed the U.S. economy because he loved tariffs. That was the narrative.
He needed his medication for multiple sclerosis. He got more paperwork instead. - The Boston Globe

1 day ago | bostonglobe.com | Sean Murphy

Rick Blum is meticulous about planning, ordering, and taking the medication he is prescribed to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis, a chronic and incurable neurological disorder that has already taken away use of his legs. But Blum’s careful planning didn’t prevent him from being cut off from his medication last month due to what he describes as three months of sustained bureaucratic nonsense from his supplier.
WILD AT WINGS

5 days ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

Meadows, guilty of 2014 killing at Leaf River, arrested for ruckus at BWW, scuffling with LPD•Timothy Meadows and run-ins with the law go together like peanut butter and jelly. Meadows, 28, was one of two then-teenagers to be convicted of manslaughter for killing Timothy Williamson at the Leaf River. After serving six years for that crime, he was out on parole when he was accused of stabbing a man 11 times.
Opinion: Ray Hudson is 'cool as the back of a spoon'

5 days ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

Guru and I were chatting the other day about our short run as a radio broadcast team for Laurel High football. It was in the sweet spot of LHS football in the mid-2010s when the Golden Tornadoes battled for championships every year. A few seconds later, a video appeared on my phone. It was the most emblematic example of a butt-whipping one could see.
What a long, bad trip it will be

1 week ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

Man busted with 9,000 doses of LSD, 4 ounces of cocaine• Talk about a bad trip to The City Beautiful. Christian Spano, 31, of Alabama was arrested Friday at about 5 p.m. at the Circle K on Chantilly Street near Interstate 59 after Laurel police received reports that an intoxicated man was stumbling around the parking lot. When officers arrived, they found the man in a U-Haul truck parked in the lot. He was arrested on misdemeanor charges.
Downsizing means more stuff

1 week ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

We have a lot of stuff. More than some, but certainly less than others. Most of it is just there, in boxes, having lived the past decade or more in solitary confinement. No human being put our allegiance to stuff as the late, great George Carlin, whose bit on stuff is the work of legend. Don’t believe me? It is available on YouTube. We don’t have too much stuff — if we lived in a mansion. I remember vividly when my wife and I moved in together.
Are you taking Ozempic, Wegovy, or other GLP-1 drug for weight loss? Here’s what to know about the costs. - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Sean Murphy

The state’s second-largest insurer, Point32Health (which includes Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan) has said it has no plans to change its coverage of GLP-1s, although it, like Blue Cross, has racked up hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, much of it driven by soaring demand for obesity drugs.
Robbing him of attention

2 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

An editor had defamed a prominent member of the community terribly. I mean, it was awful. How awful? The editor, using knowledge gleaned from coworkers and others in the community who “knew” what happened between the winning coach and the cheerleader. Remember this gem from former National Security Adviser Donald Rumsfeld in the wake of the 9/11 terrorists’ attacks: “There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.
Twenty years to get a star?

3 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but I’m guessing seven, maybe eight years ago? Seriously, I have no idea when that little star appeared in the upper right-hand corner of my driver’s license. I don’t remember providing any extra information — at least knowingly. I mean, how many times do I look at my driver’s license? Long before the star appeared, though, and in the wake of 9/11, a special designation for licenses was passed.
The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Sean Murphy

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. From a mother who lost her first-born baby, a son who never got to know his father, and a young man so badly injured that he still struggles to breathe, three decades have not healed the wounds from the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.