Workers were busy today putting disassembled Swan Boats on a flatbed truck for the trip to wherever it is they store them for the winter.
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By adamg - 9/18/12 - 8:18 am
Boston Business Journal reports a local company has come up with robots aimed at further dehumanizing the workforce helping factory workers with repetitive tasks. For some reason, the robot has googly eyes.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 4:16 pm
State Public Health Commissioner Jon Auerbach today announced his resignation over the burgeoning crisis at the former DPH labs in Jamaica Plain, in which thousands of evidence samples in criminal cases were potentially done incorrectly.
It is clear that there was insufficient quality monitoring, reporting and investigating on the part of supervisors and managers surrounding the former Department of Public Health drug lab in Jamaica Plain – and ultimately, as Commissioner, the buck stops with me.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 12:35 pm
A collection of photos of the mayor banging things, including a gong.
Also see:
Mayor Menino Cutting Ribbons.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 10:45 am
The Boston City Archives posted this photo from 1970s Boston. Can you identify where it was? Click on the image for a larger version.
By Socializing4Justice - 9/16/12 - 2:28 pm
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By adamg - 9/16/12 - 1:11 am
Shortly before 1 a.m. at 58 Decatur St. He was taken to Mass. General and is expected to survive.
By adamg - 9/14/12 - 10:53 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that courts have no place in deciding payment disputes between hospitals that treat large numbers of poor people and the state.
In a ruling on the way the state reimbursed Boston Medical Center for treating MassHealth patients in 2009, the state's highest court said the legislature explicitly excluded judicial oversight of the complex calculations - more than 100 pages in BMC's case - used to determine reimbursement, in part by not waiving the state's sovereign immunity protection against lawsuits.
By adamg - 9/13/12 - 8:49 am
A federal appeals court has upheld the right of Massachusetts police departments to deny people the right to bear certain arms if they lie on their permit applications.
The ruling means former Boston police officer Stacey Hightower can no longer carry a concealed .38 caliber five-round revolver - or carry high-capacity weaponry.
By adamg - 9/13/12 - 6:39 am
City Councilor Matt O'Malley (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) wants more signs and enforcement against double plarkers and people who park in bike lanes. And channeling his inner Larry David, he wants to crack down on pig parkers - people who don't care they've parked outside the lines of a parking space.
Cracking down on these behaviors could also help drivers by improving traffic flow, he says.
By adamg - 9/11/12 - 4:29 pm
Mego-preggo?
Boston Police report they are looking for a woman who held up the Citizens Bank branch at 28 State St., downtown, around 12:30 p.m. yesterday.
Police say the woman gave a teller a note saying she had a gun and that she wanted all the money in the drawer.
She's described as white, with black hair and about 5'4" tall. She was wearing sunglasses, a cream-colored shirt and light blue pants. And at least in the photo, she sure looks like her due date is imminent.
If you know any pregnant women with a sudden cash influx, contact A-1 detectives at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
By Anonymous - 9/11/12 - 1:09 am
What changed since the Massachusetts AFL-CIO endorsed Scott Brown in 2008? Mostly Brown's positions.
by Laura Clawson
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