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Going to Jamaica Plain World's Fair on Sat. Sept. 12. 12noon to 6pm in Hyde/Jackson Square on Centre Street. Great event.
www.jpworldsfair.org.
UPDATED to reflect that the indecent involved a pedestrian, not a motor vehicle as I first thought.
The 9:30pm outbound Kingston commuter rail struck a man near the Essex Street crossing in Whitman Thursday night; the first emergency call was received at 10:06 pm, according to chatter heard on a police scanner. I cannot confirm whether or not that this incident was fatal.
Curiously, I can't find one mention of this in local media - not even the local South Shore papers. I guess T accidents after daylight hours don't give good enough photo ops to make the news. Read more
From The Warren Residential Group Blog http://www.warrenre.com/blog
Many of my clients ask my why I think Boston has held up so well compared to other large markets such as parts of California, Florida and Nevada. I always tell them that the main reason is the small amount of new supply being brought to market. Read more
In no particular order, things I've found interesting on my cruise through the interwebs today: Read more
Nobody will ever accuse me of not taking sports seriously enough. In fact, the property damage my friends and I may or may not have caused after Boston College lost the 2007 NCAA hockey national championship game is the stuff of legend, and I vividly remember crying myself to sleep as a 15-year-old when the Red Sox were knocked out of the ALCS in 2003. Read more
Hello out there in UniversalHub land. I have determined that what the internet lacks most of all is a personal blog about some schlub's experiences in and around [insert major city here]. I have decided to rectify that problem my moving my ramblings over here.
I will be blogging about Boston politics, the T, local music, dining, bars, sports, and life from the perspective of a 21-year-old Revere native now living in an apartment in Chestnut Hill, where I will be a senior this fall at Boston College. Read more
Just wanted to know, how many other people have almost been killed by one of these casino bus companys. all i know if you call the casinos they say there is nothing they can do,the bus company has nothing to do with the casinos even when there name is all over the bus.Mohegan Sun you suck....
So if Ortiz and Ramirez were doping, was the curse really reversed? Don't think so.
A friend who is a local with us at the Dogwood Cafe in JP has gone missing in Braintree. I'm reaching out to the Universal Hub community in the hopes that someone reading might be able to help in some way.
Jeffrey Adam Phillips has been missing since Friday July 24, 2009. He was last heard from via a cell phone call with a friend and his mother around 7:30 PM and he was at his house. Jeff had plans to meet his mother Saturday morning but was never heard from. Read more
There are "significant" delays on the Newbury/Rockport lines due to a tree that has fallen on the tracks.
Signal problems at Orient Heights causing 5-10 minute delays on the blue line.
The T overpays green line employees by as much as 30 cents an hour! What will they do next!? http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/20161182/detail.html
I found this today. Looks like I'll have to have The Responsibility Talk today with my kittens... worse, I don't think they've fed the poor fish even once. Read more
To:
To the editor:
It has been painful to watch the avalanche of flawed statistics and discredited urban legends wielded by opponents of a primary enforcement seat-belt law in their foolhardy efforts to stop a law which would undeniably save lives. Read more
To:
To the editor:
Councilor Michael Flaherty’s idea to slash the city’s motor pool by having workers ride the T is a brilliant strategy for doubling the number of employees on the payroll. How else does he expect to maintain the same level of productivity when workers are forced to spend half the day waiting for trains and buses that run infrequently and arrive late, if at all?
Is Flaherty trying to save the city money or earn points with the unions by creating jobs for their members?
Jonathan Kamens
Brighton
We've been living in Brighton Center for over a decade and until recently never had to worry about crime. The worst we had to put up with was drunken parties thrown by the BC students who rent on our block, and some years even that isn't a problem if the students are polite.
(A couple of years ago there were a couple of really talented guitar players renting across the street from us. They often jammed late into the night with their friends, but man, they were good, so we didn't care. Wish they'd stayed!) Read more
Howie Carr thinks those little-known state and county holidays were created by hacks for their own enrichment. Apparently Howie thinks these holidays are on the books purely to enable all those Boston teachers, court clerks and sanitation workers to sail their 35-foot boats on the taxpayers' dime. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Read more
John Houghton
Superintendent, Cabot Bus Garage
MBTA
Dear Mr. Houghton,
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If so, then I must be insane to rely on the T.
It’s not so much that many of the 5xx express buses were horrendously delayed for hours this morning. I understand that was caused by a problem outside the T’s control, in particular, a stuck railroad crossing gate out in Waltham. Read more
In a story that ran in today's Boston Herald, Mayor Menino's campaign trashed a non-profit organization whose sole purpose is to provide voters with the resources they need for civic engagement. The organization, MassVote, works to increase voter education and turnout amongst communities of color, youth, the disabled and in ethnic communities where language is a barrier. Since its creation in 1999, MassVote has helped empower thousands of Massachusetts voters. Read more
O.K. so I'm moving to somerville (davis area) from brighton and I'm totally psyched because I think brighton is really lame and somerville seems so much cooler. I am also looking for a much better quality of life without having to move to the burbs' and still be very close to boston. I was drawn to it because it seemed much different in that it was artsy, diverse, laid-back, and seemed like there are real people there v.s. brighton which is filled with a lot of the same types of people-annoying preppy college kids, and sports obsessed meathead jocks. Not to mention all the trust fund drones who have no idea what life is about.
But all i keep hearing is this Yuppie v.s. Townie thing going on in somerville. Read more
When I decided to run for Mayor, I knew that it would be an opportunity to tell the truth about how City Hall works – or doesn’t.
I’m writing today, on the eve of my vote on a $2.45 billion budget, to tell you an uncomfortable truth: Boston’s budget process is an embarrassment.
The Budget Problem
It is a process designed by insiders, for insiders – made for preserving the status quo. It ensures that Tom Menino stays in control, and that we make only baby step progress on our most pressing problems. Read more
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