The Tech reports MIT has changed the route of some of its student shuttle buses because of complaints from Back Bay residents about squeaky buses rattling their windows.

Ed. copy desk note: I'm betting the "Congress representative Martin Walsh" the Tech refers to is really state Rep. Marty Walz.

Cape Ann dragonfly on some fall sumac.

John Carrol found the whole thing muddled:

... So a debate that should have provided some answers for Boston voters mostly left them with questions.

For example, which of these makes for a better bumper sticker – ”Tom Menino: We haven't been charged with anything" or "Under a Flaherty administration, we'll have FiOS"? ...

Mike Ball says he's seen enough; declares a Menino win in November:

... Selfishly, I wanted a new, improved Flaherty to take the stage. Instead of bright, reasoned and pleasant, he'd be charismatic and insightful. Instead of just better arguments and more detailed plans, he'd offer indisputably brilliant guides to Boston's future.

He didn't appear. ...

Globe: Flaherty jabs, but mayor unfazed.
Herald: Michael Flaherty zeroes in on mayor (along with a slideshow titled "Flaherty hits Menino in debate" that disappoints because it only shows people shaking hands, not Flaherty throwing a haymaker at Menino's solar plexus).

The Globe asks some Republican hack who doesn't live in Boston to rate the debate. Joan Vennochi cements her position as the Mikey of local punditry: She hates everything. Scot Lehigh calls a Flaherty win.

By state statute, every Town Meeting in Massachusetts is required to have at least one gadfly - a guy who bolts upright at every single motion to make an endless arguments against whatever is up for a vote (they are never for anything). Larger towns sometimes have dueling gadflies.

Greater Grafton reports her town's gadfly was out sick or taking the night off tonight. The result: An entire Town Meeting session that lasted just 45 minutes:

... My family even seemed kind of disappointed that I was home with time to spare before my youngest's bedtime.

Don’t get me wrong, I'm not longing for the Powerpoint-of-hell from last fall (which lasted longer that the entirety of tonight's meeting). But a little razzle? A little dazzle? At least one "speak through me, the moderator?" Is that too much to ask?