Boston Herald: We'd be much obliged if the Boston City Council would just go die now
By adamg - 3/16/10 - 9:42 am
The Herald takes a dim view of everything the Boston City Council has ever proposed, or something. Yeah, Steve Murphy's idea to stop roofies with sippy-cup lids was completely nuts, but that was three years ago, not this "season," as the Herald implies. How dare Rob Consalvo "take inspiration from Governing magazine." What a maroon! And Michael Flaherty's idea for buying snow-melting machines sure was "offbeat." Just ask Baltimore (and never mind Flaherty couldn't have proposed it this "season," given that he's no longer on the council).
At least they're trying. When's the last time a Herald reporter actually showed up at a Council meeting?
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Better question
When's the last time the Herald had a reporter?
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The idea to ban the grates began in NYC.
Boston, at one point, had a deal where if homeowners took bars off their buildings windows, it would pay for the labor to do so. This just seems a logical extension.
The grates don't go away, completely; they are replaced with "see-through" doorways with slats/slots.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/nyregion/01gates.html?_r=1
There's Herald-land and then there's the real world
In Herald-land, beetle eradication and bridge painting are "pork projects".
The Herald
Ron, in Herald-land, Giselle Bunchen and her baby are a front-page story!
While Boston.com has their daily
"Giselle and/or Tom" special "breaking news" section.
Comments on the HERALD article
Typical for the HERALD.
One of them decries the ShotSpotter system. Says it doesn't improve response times.
Maybe not. However, getting cops en route to the exact address* has, more often than not, resulted in arrests of the ones doing the shooting.
*Last year, someone let off six shots very near where I live. I switched on the scanner radio, and the dispatcher was directing units to the location that ShotSpotter indicated, not only street address, but actual physical location! "The front yard of (street address)".
And of course, the majority response to the store grates proposal was to lock up the taggers. Yeah. Good luck with that. Gotta catch 'em first.
BPD apparently hasn't done a damned thing about the jerk who plasters public and private property in Dorchester and Mattapan with stickers advertising his "music beats" services. But Shepard Fairey gets busted for a couple of stickers on the back of street signs.
I can just see the outrage about BPD overtime if they did stake out a stretch of Blue Hill Ave or that block in Mattapan shown in the photo, waiting for someone to tag a grate.
just sayin'
Wasn't it Chuck Turner who brought in pictures of supposed abuses by the military in Iraq and they turned out to be from a porn movie and wasn't it the Glob that printed the unedited pictures? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Just because a paper shows up at those meetings doesn't meant they'll get it right.
Yep!
To their credit, the Herald, unlike the Globe, didn't go with the photos. Also, he didn't show them at a city council meeting - he held a press conference at City Hall. So, yes, reporters and editors do make mistakes.
In any case, as with several of the other things the Herald mentioned in their story (and I'm surprised they left out Consalvo's effort to ban those little clown mini-bikes), that was several years ago, not this "season."
to their MAJOR credit
pretty sure the Herald didn't even run the story because it couldn't verify the photos authenticity.