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By adamg - 6/22/23 - 9:39 am

The Bay State Banner lists the City Council races that could have contested races this fall, including the four at-large seats and Districts 3 (Dorchester), 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, part of Mission Hill) and 7 (Roxbury).

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 5:04 pm

The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on the BPL's plans for the money left it by Howard Cooper, who died in 2022 in San Francisco but who grew up in Dorchester, went to BPS schools and was a regular visitor to the Copley Square central library as a teenager.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 10:01 am

Three groups that charge the way the city of Boston hires companies for city business discriminates against minority-owned firms today sued the Department of Justice after, they say, it refused to investigate their complaint. Read more.

By adamg - 6/21/23 - 9:38 am

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WFXT reports the woman managed to get herself enrolled at Burke, Brighton and English high schools, using multiple pseudonyms. Motive unknown at this point, but school officials say she didn't appear to harm any students or staff; still BPD is now on the case.

By adamg - 6/18/23 - 5:36 pm

Fox News breaks the news that Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden has put True-See Allah, his director of community engagement/strategic partnerships, on leave to investigate an anti-Semitic statement he made in a 2016 interview. Read more.

By adamg - 6/17/23 - 9:52 am

Amya asks:

Hairdresser recommendation in Boston / South Shore area for a stylish short haircut and color?

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 4:32 pm

Public-housing advocate Phyllis Corbitt can sue whomever she wants, but the Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants today asked a federal judge to strike its name from her role as a plaintiff in the suit over how the Boston City Council re-set its district boundary lines, because she had no authority to hitch the group's wagon to a lawsuit over the issue. Read more.

By adamg - 6/15/23 - 3:55 pm

The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the council's Wednesday vote.

By adamg - 6/14/23 - 9:19 pm
Lightning over Boston

Hugmajesty captured some of the lightning over Allston this evening. Read more.

By adamg - 6/9/23 - 12:15 pm

City Hall is looking for people to join a new Nightlife Initiative for a Thriving Economy Committee (yes, NITE) to try to turn our sleepy hamlet into something just a bit world classier, with "a more fun, equitable and family-friendly nightlife economy that benefits all residents across neighborhoods." Read more.

By adamg - 6/7/23 - 2:12 pm
Wharf in old Boston, but which one?

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene (a couple of signs that might make it a bit too easy blacked out). See it larger.

By adamg - 6/6/23 - 10:14 am
Orange sky over Boston

The state Department of Environmental Protection has issued an air-quality alert for Massachusetts, which runs through midnight, due to smoke from wildfires in Quebec and Ontario. Read more.

By adamg - 6/2/23 - 8:56 am

Associated Press reports that Kimberly West, a partner in the Boston office of the Ashcroft law firm, has been named chief prosecutor of a European Union court in the Hague that is investigating and trying people for crimes against humanity in the former Serbian province. Read more.

By adamg - 6/1/23 - 2:45 pm

Today is the start of the annual Massachusetts state turkey census. Report a turkey today.

By adamg - 5/31/23 - 10:33 am
Block in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

By adamg - 5/24/23 - 2:28 pm

The Boston City Council voted 10-2 today for a new redistricting map that keeps a largely White part of Dorchester in its old council district. Read more.

By Oliver Blake - 5/24/23 - 11:03 am
Speed hump on Evans Street in Mattapan

Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

By adamg - 5/23/23 - 9:58 pm

Boston Police report that Lt. John Earley was arrested for OUI and negligent driving in Walpole on Sunday. The BPD Bureau of Professional Standards has started an investigation, police say.

Earley, who lives in Walpole, joined the Boston force in 1998.

Innocent, etc.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 9:47 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports on groups seeking to "intervene" - become part of - the suit over how to redraw Boston city council districts based on 2020 census data. The council voted yesterday to ask the state legislature for dispensation to delay the deadline for accepting nomination papers into June to give it more breathing room as it considers several possible maps, from both councilors and Mayor Wu.

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