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Escalators no place for dogs, MSPCA warns

The MSPCA reports Mace the pomeranian mix is now short a couple of toes, which had to be amputated after getting mangled at the top of an escalator at the Forest Hills T stop:

The doctors concluded that Mace's foot was so damaged that surgery was scheduled the following day to remove two of his toes. Doctors at Angell expect Mace will make a full recovery and will even learn to walk just as well as before on his now slightly altered hind leg.


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Court makes it easier for certain mortage lenders to foreclose, assuming they did their paperwork right

The Supreme Judicial Court, which last year blasted lenders with shoddy paperwork, ruled today lenders who did not hold all the paperwork on mortgages could still foreclose - but will have to be more careful in the future.

The case involves a Roslindale woman who had a promissory note with one lender, but whose actual mortgage the original lender had sold to a company specializing in mortgage servicing. That company moved to foreclose when she missed payments.

A lower-court judge had ruled the mortgage-servicing company had no right to foreclose because it didn't also hold the promissory note, but the state's highest court ruled today that an ambiguous state law authorized agents - such as servicing companies - the right to seek eviction.

The ruling means the servicing company can now seek to prove to the lower court that it had authorization.

Richard Vetstein, a real-estate lawyer, calls the decision a big victory for the lending industry.


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City looks at turning part of the BPL main library in Copley Square into an upscale mini-mall

The Boston Business Journal reports city officials are considering leasing 150,000 square feet on three floors of the Johnson building (the newer one) to retailers - and that they are looking at changes to the building's exterior to make it more Apple Store-ish. Nordstrom at the BPL, anyone? Ooh, what about a Barnes and Noble?

In a tweet, BPL replies:

There's a proposed study in next year's capital plan. No firm plans until the FY13 budget is voted.

The plan shows a $1.5-million expenditure to study "enhancing the potential of the Children's Room, lecture hall and front entrance of the Central Library's Johnson Building."

"There's a lot of wasted space in that building," Mayor Menino told a group of reporters. Menino said the city would also look at other uses, including college classrooms, and that any changes would likely be on the Lenox Hotel side of the building.


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Not quite the same spirit of Charlestown the DA praised the other day

Charlestown Patch reports on an incident at a local store the other day in which a security guard followed a guy who'd swiped a candy bar only to be confronted and threatened by his inamorata outside:

"This is Charlestown, b—, we will come after you," she said according to the guard.

Earlier:
DA praises 'the real spirit of Charlestown' - guy who tackled alleged sadsack bank robber.


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Citizen complaint of the day: Dog-on-dog action and the stench of poop in South End park

An outraged South Ender wonders why dog owners refuse to go to the neighborhood dog park instead of befouling Blackstone Square:

Leash enforcement. Now. I've counted 18 dogs running unleashed. One has just mounted and began mating with another, both too far from their owners for it to be broken up before my 6 year old nephew asked me what was going on. This is madness. The fountain is a filthy dog bath, and the stench of poop is in the air no matter which bench you sit on.


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If only the Financial District had another name

The Herald reports some downtown real-estate types think that if the city can successfully re-brand a bunch of parking lots as the Innovation District, imagine how quickly the disposable-income crowd would flock to the now mind-numbingly boring Financial District.


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So where are the state troopers and guys in SWAT uniforms and dogs and bullhorns and stuff?

Remember last year when a couple of girls got into a fight at Carson Beach and a battalion of troopers and cops shut down the beach and Moakley Park and all of a sudden people across the country were tut-tutting about gang armies taking over Boston (even though it turned out they weren't)?

When will we hear the same tut-tutting for the fight nights at Comcast Center - like the one at the Jam’n 94.5′s Summer Jam earlier this month that Channel 4 reports left one girl with two black eyes? You know, nice suburban Comcast Center down in Wherethehell, Mass., instead of gritty South Boston? In the meantime, we have flacks for Comcast Center earning their pay by saying some people are just such Debbie Downers and fail to recognize the hard work the venue does every day to put on concerts, so just shut up already about chicks with fists of fury, such as these:


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Bros out of Allston

No more bros

Roving UHub photographer Eric Hutchinson reports somebody sprayed "No More Bro's" on the fence outside 24 Ashford St., a.k.a. Heinz House, the unsanctioned BU frat where pledges were found duct-taped together and covered in condiments. He adds:

I'm seriously resisting temptation to go put a sticky note up that informs them that there's no apostrophe in plurals.


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Dueling thermometers on Centre Street

Dueling thermometers

The grass is always cooler on the other side of the street in West Roxbury.


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