Although Somerville's Mayor Joseph Curtatone ran unopposed in 2009, he still raised serious cash from some 600 contributors: Donors sent in over $100,000, including $13,990 from 75 City of Somerville employees and $750 from two executives at Duncan Solutions, which had recently received a contract to be the city's new parking meter vendor.

At his parole hearing on Nov. 6, 2008, Dominic Cinelli, who allegedly killed Officer John "Jack" Maguire a week ago, was found to be "proactive in addressing" the Parole Board's previous concerns, attending substance abuse and alternatives to violence classes while earning his GED and taking job training programs. Despite three concurrent life sentences, the Board found his release "not incompatible with the welfare of society."

As Somerville Voices' Barry Rafkind uncovered through a MuckRock request, the Somerville Police Department referred nine individuals to federal immigration officials between January 2009 and April 2010 for a range of alleged offenses ranging from prostitution to narcotics trafficking to possession of stolen property.

After a request by Post Somerville and made possible through funding by you, our readers, MuckRock has published the 2009 Somerville Campaign Finance Reports online, fully searchable and sharable. The 2009 Campaign Finance Reports, made up of hundreds of pages of mandatory filings by aldermen and mayoral candidates, are being analyzed by Post Somerville.

We thought you should know that we received the following e-mail from the Department of Transitional Assistance on Monday.

Ever wonder how food stamp money is actually being spent? Curious as to how hard the “great recession” has hit your community? In this exclusive MuckRock data set, we present over four years of government reimbursement data, including exact reimbursement amounts and exact addresses of where the money is being spent.

MuckRock recently filed requests for data about the dogs in Somerville and in Cambridge, and the Animal Control offices in both cities were helpful. If you want to know the most popular place to raise your pooch, or sneak a peak and see if your dog’s name is one of the top 10 most popular (should we say pupular?), then just read on!