Wicked Good Allston/Brighton reports an Armingon Street man used his skateboard to smash two police cruisers and a lamp on Harvard Street for no reason police could fathom, before officers finally managed to tackle him and put cuffs on him, around 4:40 a.m. on Nov. 18.
Brookline
The line at midnight in Coolidge Corner for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.
Via Kevin Wang.
Brookline considers requiring people who operate ice-cream trucks to supply fingerprints, Wicked Local Brookline reports.
Wicked Local Brookline reports selectmen are not convinced data from the gizmo, which lets cruising cops scan large numbers of license-plate numbers, would not be misused once transferred to a state database.
The MBTA provided this photo of the Green Line between Chestnut Hill and Reservoir stations. More photos in the comments.
Bill James, yeah, the baseball-stats Bill James, claims Albert DeSalvo wasn't the Boston Strangler and that whoever the killer was used what's now the Green Line to get to and from the murder sites - all of which he says are steps from trolley stops.
James's non-baseball book.
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a man's conviction for "accosting or annoying a person of the opposite sex" on Beacon Street in Brookline, ruling that he was indeed being offensive when he grabbed his pants below the waist and began simulating masturbation as a young nanny walked by pushing a stroller.
The state's highest court also dismissed Daniel Moran's argument that his conviction be overturned because the law requires proof of "acts" and he only acted out once. Justices said he was only playing with syntax in relation to a law it said legislators rewrote in 1983 partly to make it read better.
Elliot Doxer of Brookline agreed this week to plead guilty to charges he tried to funnel information about trade practices and employees at Cambridge Internet company Akamai to the Israel government, in part to help Israel, in part to make money, and in part to get information on the whereabouts of his child, taken overseas by his ex-wife.
Doxer now awaits sentencing in US District Court for economic espionage.
Common Cause Massachusetts is hosting a Redistricting Olympics this summer. We will be taking citizen drawn Congressional, State House, and State Senate maps all summer, evaluating them, declaring a winner, giving out prizes and submitting the winning maps to the MA Legislative Redistricting Committee for consideration.
The purpose of the redistricting Olympics is threefold: to educate the public about the steps in the redistricting process, to initiate public participation in the political arena, and to pressure the legislature to draw the districts so that the citizens are appropriately represented.
David Levy says farewell to Myra Kraft, who died at 68:
When I came to [Combined Jewish Philanthropies], I learned that [Kraft and her husband Robert] opened their home on the Cape for a CJP Staff Outing in the summer. And, of course, I'd run in to her in the hallways and elevators of CJP, because she was not just a donor - she was a volunteer whose presence, enthusiasm, and hard work mattered as much as her dollars.
Katie Noah Gibson, who grew up going to large churches in small Southern towns, reports on attending the Brookline Church of Christ, which has maybe 40 people at Sunday services:
I'm so thankful, in the midst of this big city where I often feel anonymous, to have a place where I'm recognized, hugged, needed, seen, known. Brookline is my neighborhood, and I am deeply grateful.