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City Councilor Julia Mejia says Turtleboy owner Aiden Kearney keeps libeling her and she's had enough.
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Ellen Fleming is a reporter at WWLP in Springfield, where most people don't have a Boston accent, but she grew in Braintree, daughter of a couple of Dot rats, and used to work at Chronicle on Channel 5 here. So the other day, she was doing a report from Beacon Hill: Read more.
It's become too toxic a platform to keep wutrain going, she tells CommonWealth Magazine. Her official mayoral feed, however, will continue.
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by 19 people against the city's requirement that they show proof of Covid-19 vaccination in most indoor public spaces because they failed to prove they were actually harmed by the rule. Read more.
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The Boston Public Health Commission relays the news, based on growing numbers of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in Boston, Revere, Chelsea and Winthrop.
Also at high numbers: Covid-19 viral particles in sewage at the MWRA's Deer Island plant, which has become a predictor of new cases in the coming couple of weeks. Read more.
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Last week, the BPDA issued a press release that it had approved 3,247 new housing units in Boston in 2022. Good news, right? Well, yeah, unless you make like Scott Van Voorhis and look at similar data for 2021, which showed 6,643 new approvals, and 2020, with 10,123.
Alex Weech describes and photographs his walk yesterday from Sprague Road in Readville on the Dedham line to Charlestown on the Everett line. He reports it took 4 hours 7 minutes. Read more.
Orange Line delay Electrical Problem at Green St.
MBTA running trains on one track.
Delays again.
The latest numbers from the MWRA's Deer Island treatment plant are out and they're not looking good.
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Nicholas Agri couldn't help but look up as the sun went down this evening as he strolled along Kennedy Drive overlooking Short Beach Creek in Winthrop.
He was hardly alone. Read more.
Mayor Wu said today a decision will come "soon" on whether to require BPS students and staffers to don mask for the first couple of weeks of school in January. Read more.
The turkeys (sometimes ornery), coyotes, rabbits and even bald eagles continued reclaiming their habitat this year. A little round bird blown across country by storms wound up on Mission Hill. A whale showed up in Dorchester Bay. But did a capybara really stroll down a lane in Charlestown? Read more.