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Councilor boils over about redistricting, white councilors who are too pitiful to even be called cowardly and white people calling her epithets

By adamg - 8/31/22 - 3:38 pm

An angry Tania Fernandes Anderson plays voice mail

Fernandes Anderson plays racist voice mail she got.

City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) had enough this afternoon.

Slamming her desk in frustration at what she says is the treatment of Black and Hispanic councilors, Fernandes Anderson turned a discussion about a proposed effort to redistrict Boston into a cry of disgust that started with the way Councilor Ricardo Arroyo is being treated to an exposition on fears in her district that redistricting led by a white councilor will mean minorities will remain at a disadvantage in Boston. Read more.

Baker calls Arroyo a 'predator' but withdraws demand for subpoena of his BPD file

By adamg - 8/31/22 - 2:21 pm

In a contentious meeting in which Council President Ed Flynn had to keep banging his gavel, telling both councilors and residents to keep quiet, Councilor Frank Baker withdrew his demand for a look at the BPD file on sexual-assault allegations against Councilor Ricardo Arroyo, saying his point had been made by today's Globe interview with a woman who claims Arroyo sexually attacked and threatened her in high school. Read mroe.

Woman who claims Arroyo attacked her talks to the Globe, Arroyo seeks release of BPD reports, Wu unendorses him

By adamg - 8/31/22 - 10:22 am

The Globe interviews one of the two women BPD allegedly investigated DA candidate Ricardo Arroyo for attacking when they were in high school, and that she stands by her story of "the coerced sex, the mental manipulation, threats she said he sent her." Read more.

Fun with subpoenas

By adamg - 8/29/22 - 1:26 pm

Frank Baker wants to subpoena BPD records about Ricardo Arroyo? Saraya Wintersmith at WGBH reports Arroyo supporter and District 6 City Councilor Kendra Lara says fair is fair and wants to subpoena records related to Baker's 1990s arrest on a marijuana-distribution charge. Read more.

Bucolic scene along an old Boston main street

By adamg - 8/29/22 - 12:11 pm

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

JP man pens Boston-based novel

By adamg - 8/29/22 - 9:42 am

Jamaica Plain News interviews Christopher Amenta, whose debut novel, The Cold Hard Light, is a psychological thriller set in Boston.

I’m the beneficiary of Boston’s very supportive and empowering literary community. ...

Note: The novel name links to an Amazon page. If you buy the book, UHub gets a small cut.

Jamaica Plain progressives ponder what to do when both candidates for DA are flawed

By adamg - 8/27/22 - 11:46 am

Leaders of JP Progressives, which endorsed Ricardo Arroyo for Suffolk County DA earlier this month, report they spent more than two days this week trying to figure out what to do after news broke of the sexual-assault allegations against him. Read more.

News in a digestible format: Man compiles spreadsheet of $1 oyster deals in Boston

By adamg - 8/26/22 - 12:39 pm

John Lerner has compiled a spreadsheet of Boston restaurants that have $1 oyster specials, and the times they're available.

Arroyo denies high-school sexual-assault charges; lawyer for one woman says Arroyo never assaulted her

By adamg - 8/24/22 - 2:46 pm

Somebody dropped some paperwork on the Globe about two investigations into alleged sexual attacks by City Councilor and DA candidate Ricardo Arroyo when he was a student at the O'Bryant School. Read more.

City planners move to get zoning board out of cannabis approval process

By adamg - 8/24/22 - 10:18 am

One board overseeing the approval of marijuana shops in Boston is more than enough, according to the BPDA, which holds a hearing Monday on eliminating a requirement that all dispensaries seek approval of the Zoning Board of Appeal now that the city has a separate Cannabis Board. Read more.

Boston was very shouty this week

By adamg - 8/20/22 - 12:03 pm

Maybe it was the the Orange Line, or the return of the heat, or just general Boston agita, but this week saw an explosion of Greater Boston-shouting woman memes. Here are some: Read more.

Bluebikes were supposed to be an Orange Line alternative, but on the eve of Orangepocalypse, their servers die

By adamg - 8/19/22 - 4:53 pm

People trying to register for Bluebikes accounts right now are can't, because the app is dead, something about servers or something. Bluebikes reports it's aware of the problem (not surprising given that @RideBlueBikes on Twitter is being barraged with complaints) and is telling would-be riders:

We appreciate you reaching out to report this issue. Our engineers have already been notified and are working on a fix as we speak. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

As clock ticks down on the Orange Line, Boston adding temporary bus lanes to key Charlestown roads, shutting some roads to cars downtown and in JP and Back Bay

By adamg - 8/18/22 - 3:37 pm

New temporary bike lane on Columbus Avenue

New, temporary but as yet unmarked bike lane on Columbus Avenue. Photo by Evan.

Boston officials today announced some changes to roads along the route of the soon-to-stop-running Orange Line to help ease the passage of the big replacement buses until the trains allegedly start running again in a month. Read more.

Wu looks at banning fossil-fuel use in new development, major renovation projects

By adamg - 8/16/22 - 2:21 pm

Mayor Wu said today she wants Boston to join a state pilot that would let the city ban the use of natural gas and other fossil fuels for heating and cooking in new construction or major renovation projects. Read more.

Time was, you could rent an apartment, then grab some donuts for the celebratory road trip in your Chevy Vega

By adamg - 8/11/22 - 11:14 am

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

BPD captain who had been on paid leave for more than two years cleared of most charges

By adamg - 8/2/22 - 5:04 pm

CommonWealth Magazine reports Capt Haseeb Hosein was cleared of the most serious charges against him by a hearing officer who "said the complaints against Hosein appeared to be orchestrated and called for an investigation."

Rats running amok through Boston; residents, councilors demand action

By adamg - 8/1/22 - 4:11 pm

Union Park's Williams: Enough with the wire-harness-chomping, backyard-destroying rats.

The rat barrage that grew worse with the pandemic hasn't eased and now residents are having to deal with cars sustaining thousands of dollars of damage from rats chewing through wiring and asphalt surfaces collapsing from all the rat burrows under them on top of all general grossness of seeing rat families having giant family reunions in people's yards and in local parks. Read more.