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By adamg - 5/1/23 - 2:02 pm

The Boston Public Health Commission announced today that it's shutting its vaccination sites at the Hyde Park community center and the Fiorentino center in Allston and the Lena Park CDC in Dorchester on May 13, because so few people are now showing up for shots. Read more.

By Wiffleball - 4/23/23 - 6:27 pm

Does anyone know a store that stocks individual bags of Claey's hard candies in Boston? I can buy multiples online, but there are a couple flavors like Sassafras and Green Apple that I'd like to try with single bags. Thanks!

By adamg - 4/21/23 - 4:23 pm

The mayor's office announced today that Boston will triple the number of households from which it will pick up food waste once a week from the current 10,000 to 30,000, starting in July. Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/23 - 1:43 pm
Street scene with cab company in old Boston

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

By adamg - 4/11/23 - 9:33 pm

In e-mail tonight, BPS told parents of prospective exam-school students that neither BPS nor an outside auditor initially caught the error at first in the way seventh-grade eligibility is calculated, but that they still expect to send out actual invitations in early May - still on schedule for BPS, but later than other area schools with selection policies. Read more.

By adamg - 4/10/23 - 11:45 am

Joe Kinsella describes walking the entire 28 miles of the Boston Walking City Trail this past weekend. With photos and history.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 1:22 pm

City officials are organizing a pilot for stocking libraries, community centers, schools, shelters and other municipal buildings with menstrual products for women who might otherwise have trouble getting them, City Councilor Gabriela Coletta says. Read more.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 12:49 pm

Boston has changed its requirements for the "tactile" nubbly pads that let people with sight issues know they're at a the end of a sidewalk to require pads made of cast iron, which it hopes will last longer than the easily shredded plastic ones it now uses, city Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge said this week. Read more.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 11:07 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the use of police body cameras to record voluntary statements of possible crime victims, in a case in which a man who was ordered back to jail on a probation violation in part because of those statements argued they violated the state ban on wiretapping - even though he was not involved in the recording. Read more.

By adamg - 4/6/23 - 9:34 am

The Boston City Council yesterday approved a proposal by the Wu administration to encourage builders and contractors to turn away from natural-gas systems and towards all-electrical ones in new buildings and buildings undergoing major renovations, in part by requiring potentially expensive higher-efficiency systems and wiring to allow for future electrification. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/23 - 9:44 am
Kenzie Bok

Update: Bok will resign on April 28.

Mayor Wu announced today she's named Councilor Kenzie Bok (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) as the next administrator of the Boston Housing Authority, which provides housing and housing vouchers for 62,000 Bostonians.
Read more.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 10:29 pm
Flaherty holds 'crack and meth pack'

Flaherty with a "meth and crack pack" he pulled out of his jacket pocket.

City officials from Chelsea traveled across the Mystic today to tell Boston city councilors how a ban on 50-mil liquor bottles has meant fewer drunken incidents for police and EMTs to respond to and cleaner and even safer streets. Read more.

By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:41 am

The owner of a Quality Inn on the Revere/Saugus line is suing the Boston Public Health Commission for the money it says it's owed for holding all of its rooms for three months in 2021 for Mass and Cass denizens who Boston never actually sent there once Revere and Saugus officials erupted in anger on learning of the plan. Read more.

By adamg - 3/30/23 - 11:35 am

The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld the city of Boston's 2021 order requiring municipal workers to get vaccinated against Covid-19, saying public-health needs outweighed the collective-bargaining rights of the police and fire unions that sued over the policy. Read more.

By adamg - 3/28/23 - 9:55 pm
Mel King and Ray Flynn

King and Ray Flynn, against whom he ran for mayor in 1983, years later. Photo by Derek Kouyoumijian.

GBH reports the death of Mel King, director of the New Urban League of Greater Boston, state representative, candidate for mayor, educator and namesake of the Mel King Institute.

Continuing Mel King's Legacy, Fighting Racism and Economic Inequality.
Our Nelson Mandela.

By adamg - 3/27/23 - 2:10 pm

Felix Arroyo opened up a vacancy as Suffolk County Register of Probate when he retired earlier this month. The first person to officially signal he's running for the office, by registering a campaign with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, is Vincent Procopio of Saugus.

Saugus is not in Suffolk County, but unlike candidates for district attorney or register of deeds, registers of probate don't have to live in the county they want to serve. The job entails overseeing a state-funded office for handling wills and the like. It pays $174,000 a year.

By adamg - 3/23/23 - 12:40 pm
Men installing street-car tracks in old Boston

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

By adamg - 3/23/23 - 9:38 am

Scott Van Voorhis took a look at residential construction permits issued in Boston so far this year and finds only a couple hundred have been issued, compared to more than a thousand in the same period last year.

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 3:44 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a proposed plea to the state legislature to grant Boston 250 new liquor licenses - but only for certain neighborhoods. Read more.

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