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By adamg - 6/5/12 - 12:31 pm

The Mayor's Office of Constituent Engagement reports it's working on a new version of Citizen's Connect, which will let you close out your own complaints, say, if you report a possum in your trash and then notice that somebody else has freed the critter. The city's aiming for a fall release date.

By roadman - 6/5/12 - 12:11 pm

Got this interesting T alert earlier today:

Orange Line experiencing 10-15 min delays due to a signal problem at Orient Heights Station. 6/5/2012 5:52 AM.

note - I presumed the alert was for the Orange Line, as I'm not signed up to get Blue Line alerts

By adamg - 6/4/12 - 6:52 pm

Commuters who missed morning delays caused by a dead train get a chance to experience delays caused by a dead train in the evening.

But don't worry: The T says it already has plans for more service cuts should the legislature not do anything by July 1.

By adamg - 6/4/12 - 10:25 am

An angry citzen reports from Revere Street on Beacon Hill:

Can't get out of the car. Someone decided to illegally line the pedestrian path with pots of trees. Remove immediately. Very dangerous. Have to get out on passenger side where there is traffic.

By adamg - 6/2/12 - 4:39 pm

A person was seriously wounded in a shooting at Columbia Road and Quincy Street in Dorchester around 4 p.m. The homicide unit was called in, routine with serious injuries. Stanley Staco reports a possible suspect ran down Quincy Street.

By Socializing4Justice - 6/1/12 - 3:58 pm

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By adamg - 5/31/12 - 10:29 am

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston ruled today that depriving same-sex spouses of federal benefits available to other spouses violates their equal protection rights.

By jonallen - 5/31/12 - 10:06 am

Want Governor Romney back? We didn't think so.

Voters in Massachusetts know better than anyone else what a Romney presidency would look like—and we need to let the rest of the country know how terrible it would be.

That's why we're joining with other Massachusetts progressive groups TODAY for a rally to show that Romney was a failure as governor and we certainly don't want him in charge of the country.

Can you join us THIS MORNING at 11:15 on the steps of the State House on Beacon Street to stand up and say that Mitt Romney was wrong for Massachusetts and he is wrong for America?

By adamg - 5/30/12 - 1:30 pm

The MBTA said April ridership was up 4.4% over April of last year, and that bus ridership topped 400,000 weekday rides for the first time ever. Officials credited the widespread use of smart-phone apps that let riders know when the next bus is coming, along with an inproving economy.

Green Line ridership led the subway lines with an 8.2% ridership increase.

T officials have factored in a possible ridership decrease starting July 1, when fares increase.

By adamg - 5/30/12 - 8:09 am

Comes to us courtesy Nicole LoGrasso:

It is not ok to eat a bowl of cereal on the train.. And then drink the milk from the bowl.

By adamg - 5/29/12 - 7:29 am

Pop Bop Shop finds both good and meh at Patricia Yeo's Moksa in Cambridge:

Overall, I found Moksa to be confusing. Does it want to be an Asian restaurant or a night club? How can it have dishes that are incredible as well as dishes that taste like nothing? Why was our waiter attentive for the first hour and then he vanished?

By adamg - 5/29/12 - 7:21 am

Start charging for trash bags or at the least, start enforcing the city ordinance against putting recyclables in the trash, our own eeka suggests.

By adamg - 5/27/12 - 1:18 pm

Peter Gelzinis has one common-sense observation in his column today - that hipsters who don't know where Roche Bros. is, let alone want to collect signatures there, pose little real threat to Tom Menino.

By adamg - 5/27/12 - 12:06 am

Nobody hit, though, as things broke up on Kittredge Street between Wellesmere and Denton shortly before midnight.

By adamg - 5/24/12 - 3:43 pm

School Superintendent Carol Johnson has released details of plans to ensure more students get to school on time in the coming school year.

For starters, BPS has already started mapping out bus routes for the fall, rather than waiting until later in the summer. BPS blamed new routing software for a busing crisis that saw hundreds of students getting to school seriously late, if their buses showed up at all.

By adamg - 5/24/12 - 11:10 am

A homeless man found with a serious head injury Monday at the Paul Revere Park fishing pier under the Charlestown Bridge may have been attacked there Sunday night.

Authorities are looking for people who may have been in the park and seen anything, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports:

By adamg - 5/23/12 - 1:32 pm

Ross: "Irresponsible" to make kids pay for superintendent's mistakes.

A divided City Council today approved a plan that moves seven schools around and creates two new schools, but even councilors who voted in favor told School Superintendent Carol Johnson and School Committee Chairman Gregory Groover they're skating on thin ice.

Councilor Ayanna Pressley (at large) said the $20-million plan, which will mean 1,400 new seats in what BPS says are high-performing schools, forced her to vote for a plan that moves the Mission Hill K-8 School to Jamaica Plain. But she said she will never again vote for a BPS capital request unless officials pair it with a comprehensive five or ten-year plan. The council has final say over borrowing for large-scale capital projects.

By adamg - 5/23/12 - 7:38 am

Wait, is that Tom Menino up there with them?!?

Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday brushed off claims of an upstart group of hip entrepreneurs that he's out of touch, saying he's tried to extend late-night buses and has infused his administration with several young, new staffers.

By adamg - 5/22/12 - 6:51 pm

1202 Comm. Ave. just inbound from Harvard Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Police looking for two men, who may have made a point of stabbing the guy in both legs.

By jp_guy - 5/22/12 - 12:58 pm

I just picked up an exceptional book on Boston's jazz history called The Boston Jazz Chronicles - Faces, Places, and Nightlife 1937 - 1962.
The few sections I've read so far are captivating and beautifully recreate this pivotal time in our fair city's transition from an economically depressed backwater to what it is today.

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