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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.

By adamg - 5/17/23 - 3:55 pm

City Council President Ed Flynn today submitted a proposed ordinance barring councilors and others who work in council offices from attacking and bullying council staffers. Read more.

By adamg - 5/17/23 - 12:58 pm
Street scene in old Boston

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

By adamg - 5/16/23 - 9:29 am
Hazy sun over Boston

More smoke from wildfires on the Canadian plains gave us another hazy sunrise this morning, as Brooks Payne shows us.

Kichinichini took in the hazy sun from the River Street bridge in Hyde Park's Cleary Square: Read more.

By adamg - 5/15/23 - 9:40 pm

The Dig reports the state Attorney General's office has begun looking at possible racial disparities in the way the BPD Youth Violence Strike Force - the gang unit - makes stops and frisks people, including the use of a controversial gang database. Read more.

By adamg - 5/13/23 - 10:16 am

The Dorchester Reporter posts a copy of the proposal by Mayor Wu for new City Council district lines - it would move Cedar Grove and Adams Village back into what is now Frank Baker's district, keep the South Boston housing projects in what is now Ed Flynn's district, but move South Boston from Flynn's district into the district that had been represented by the now departed Kenzie Bok. Line changes involving Roslindale and Mattapan are also included.

By adamg - 5/12/23 - 8:46 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports the Boston Teachers Union, with more than 8,000 members, plans to split from the Greater Boston Labor Council - for reasons nobody's talking about publicly just yet.

By adamg - 5/12/23 - 10:11 am

Dan Kennedy reports the death of James Shearer, whose Spare Change News reported on the homeless in Boston - and gave them a way to earn some money by hawking the paper.

By adamg - 5/11/23 - 11:43 am
QR coded bus book delivery at Ashmont

QR coded bus book delivery at Ashmont.

The BPL and the MBTA have launched a QR-coded digital-content service that will let people boarding buses at 20 Boston stops quickly access digital versions of books, newspapers and magazines to go. Read more.

By adamg - 5/10/23 - 3:59 pm

The City Council today agreed to try to redraw lines for the nine district councilors by May 30, the last day city lawyers say the city can use new maps in time to hold preliminary elections on Sept. 12 and final elections on Nov. 7, in a process that, as has become typical, showed a continued fault line between the council majority and its four most conservative members. Read more.

By Oliver Blake - 5/8/23 - 11:11 pm

Boston is offering up to $7,000 grants to groups in neighborhoods with problems with violence to run events at their local parks. Read more.

By adamg - 5/8/23 - 9:21 pm

A federal judge today ordered city officials to stop their preparations for the fall district council elections, ruling that the maps approved last fall are illegal because they relied on race to draw the boundaries between two largely Dorchester districts without proof racially based solutions were needed in Boston. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/23 - 5:09 pm

Martin Owens asks:

There are no good tea shops in Boston any more. Since Tealux closed down, we've been limping by on bobatea and coffee and it's just not the same.

Anyone know of anything?

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 1:28 pm

The mayor's office announced today it's making it pawsible for beer gardens and restaurant patios to serve patrons who want to bring their dogs with them. Read more.

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