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By adamg - 3/18/24 - 3:14 pm

IBEW Local 103 in Dorchester today endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for re-election in November, calling them the head of the "most pro-union administration in our nation's history." Read more.

By adamg - 3/13/24 - 1:11 pm
FitzGerald

The City Council will consider a proposal to grant handicap parking placards to pregnant people in their third trimester or who have given birth within the past six months.
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By adamg - 3/9/24 - 12:25 pm
Etching showing the death of Attucks

The City Council will consider a measure to permanently honor Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Boston Massacre. Read more.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 9:22 am

Protesters calling for a Gaza ceasefire blocked Atlantic Avenue in front of South Station around 8:30 a.m. Not long after, Boston Police began arresting the protesters.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 2:18 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure in which the city would shift federal Covid relief money originally targeted to increasing the composting of garbage to leasing a 5,500-square-food cold-storage facility to give food pantries and soup kitchens a central place to store refrigerated foods - including food "rescued" from restaurants and markets. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 1:36 pm
Louijeune pulls an Oprah and puts a jar of honey under every other councilor's desk

Louijeune pulls an Oprah, tells all the councilors to look under their desks for some honey.

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure that will make it easier for residents to raise bees.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 9:12 am

Republicans in the First Suffolk district yesterday voted to keep their incumbent Republican State Committeewoman, Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick, rather than put a Nazi into office. Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 9:33 am
Murphy

Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 11:53 am

The Public Interest Legal Foundation of Arlington, VA, which is convinced large numbers of unregistered people are voting, today dropped its lawsuit demanding a data dump of all of Boston's voter registration records, just four days after it filed it.

The group's filing, in US District Court in Boston, does not explain the change of heart, but says it was doing so "voluntarily," which means it's reserving the right to re-file it at any moment.

By adamg - 3/2/24 - 12:17 pm
Bloody Sunday commemoration at the State House

Molly Lanzarotta attended the Poor Peoples Campaign commemoration on the Common and at the State House of Bloody Sunday in 1965, when armed goons under the control of the county sheriff, some on horseback, attacked and beat peaceful civil-rights marchers in Selma, AL. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 4:21 pm

The City Council this week approved a measure under which the city will hire two companies to install 250 chargers along Boston streets to let people without their own driveways top up their battery-powered cars. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 5:52 pm

WCVB reports President Biden has nominated Our Marty, the former mayor turned labor secretary turned NHL player-union head, to become one of 11 members of the board of governors that oversees the USPS.

By adamg - 2/26/24 - 2:42 pm
Lori Kauffman seeks inspiration from Hitler

Nazi candidate memes herself.

Updated with statement by the Massachusetts Republican Committee.

Republicans in the First Suffolk district (state Sen. Nick Collins's district) who vote during the March 5 primary will get to decide who represents them on the Republican State Committee - one man and one woman.

On the woman's side, the candidates are Elizabeth Hinds-Ferrick and Lori Kauffman, both of Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 2:56 pm

Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) today withdrew his proposed resolution calling for a negotiated Gaza ceasefire to let him rewrite it so that it doesn't cause "more division" rather than lessen it. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 11:44 am
Official Boston city seal and the newfangled underlined B

Official old and newfangled Boston city symbols.

City Councilor Sharon Durkan (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) says it's time for Boston to set up a licensing office to all the companies just dying to show off their Boston cred on clothing, mugs and anything else you can slap a bold underlined sans-serif B or some good old-fashioned "Sicut Patribus Sit Deus Nobis" - or even just a design featuring the city-owned Faneuil Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 10:14 am

The Boston City Council tomorrow considers whether to let Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) start up some formal consideration of a proposal for "congestion pricing" as a way to ease gridlock on Boston roads caused by narrowing car access because of bicycle and bus lanes - and maybe even provide enough revenue to help improve public transit. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 2:53 pm

The City Council agreed today to a hearing to press for action to keep BTD and other city workers safe on the streets following a Friday attack in Grove Hall that sent a BTD supervisor - just months from retirement - to the hospital with serious injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 1:22 pm

Last week, Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) demanded and won immediate passage of a federal public-safety grant, which he said was too important to wait for a hearing so that the council's four new councilors and others could get up to speed on it. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:43 pm

After years of Milton residents fretting about evil Bostonians swarming their town, it's time for some turnabout: The executive board of the Cedar Grove Civic Association in Dorchester says its residents should join the fight against a ballot question in Milton that would allow denser development in parts of that town, to keep more commuting Miltonians from swarming their neighborhood. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am

City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.

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