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By adamg - 3/21/13 - 7:17 pm

WGBH reports on a chat Tom Menino had with Emily Rooney today.

By JohnAKeith - 3/21/13 - 3:30 pm
St. Cecilia

Because I apparently had my camera with me today, I took this shot in front of St. Cecilia's, a church on Belvidere Street in the Back Bay. There were about a dozen Boston Department of Public Works workers shoveling and plowing snow from the sidewalks and street around the church.

I stopped to watch. I asked one of the drivers what he was doing and he replied, "Plowing out the church." I asked him if the city did it for all churches, to which he replied, "I guess the ones that have pull?"

By adamg - 3/21/13 - 11:18 am

HolePatch guy shows DPW how to putty up holes. Photo by city of Boston.Hole Patch employee patches hole. Photo by city of Boston.

By adamg - 3/21/13 - 8:44 am

One of the constants of Universal Hub Twitter feed is that people regularly send me updates on the whereabouts of Sob Story Guy and Sob Story Girl (actually, should be plural, since there's more than than one of each).

People really, really hate being confined to a metal tube underground (or just sitting in a restaurant or theater) while an angry or seemingly distraught person demands money to see her kid in Portsmouth or his parole officer in Worcester - especially if story tellers are heading the wrong direction from the train station you'd take to get to those places or if they're repeating the same tear-laden spiels veteran Bostonians have heard for years.

But are these story tellers people with mental disabilities who shouldn't be pointed out and mocked in a public medium? Here's an exchange on Twitter yesterday:

By adamg - 3/20/13 - 11:24 pm

John Connolly came out swinging tonight at a campaign party at the Parker House. "City Hall makes 'Southie Rules' look like a serious news show," he said referring to what he considers a major lack of transparency in city government.

The Globe has more details on the event. The Herald was there as well.

By adamg - 3/20/13 - 4:16 pm

Boston Police are looking for a man who robbed the Mt. Washington Bank branch at 501 Southampton St. around 4 p.m.

The suspect, described as black and wearing a maroon hoodie under a black North Face jacket, ran down Boston Street.

By adamg - 3/19/13 - 3:05 pm

The Globe reports it's starting to happen, due to the tight rental market in Boston. Also, undergrads looking for fall apartments? So, so screwed.

By adamg - 3/18/13 - 8:24 pm

UPDATE, 8:42 p.m.: Our phone rang and the kidlet picked it up. As soon as she began jumping and yelling, I knew: School is canceled in Boston tomorrow. Barring any more snow days, this means Boston Public Schools will get out for the year on June 28. All Boston Centers for Youth and Families sites will be open tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

By adamg - 3/18/13 - 10:42 am

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030; [email protected]

COMMONWEALTH vs. Keith WINFIELD.

SJC-11288.

Middlesex. Nov. 8, 2012. - March 18, 2013.

Constitutional Law, Access to court proceedings. Court Reporter. Waiver.

INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court Department on August 1, 2006. A posttrial motion for an order allowing access to audio recordings of trial testimony was heard by Kathe M. Tuttman, J.

The Supreme Judicial Court on its own initiative transferred the case from the Appeals Court.

Jonathan M. Albano (John Reinstein with him) for Steve Audette.

Fawn D. Balliro Andersen, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.

GANTS, J.

By adamg - 3/18/13 - 8:25 am

Boston from Dorchester Heights, 1776. From the BPL Leventhal map collection.Boston from Dorchester Heights, 1776. From the BPL Leventhal map collection.

Today, it's mainly a day for free parking downtown and for Boston municipal workers and school kids to get a day off. But back in the day, it honored the first major victory of the Revolution - the day the British fled the capital of the colony where the fighting had begun.

By adamg - 3/17/13 - 10:04 pm

Around 9:45 on Nelson Street near Selden Street. For some reason, the car's two occupants didn't want to wait around for EMTs or police; they ran away - and one jumped over a fence in a nearby yard. The fence jumper was wearing a blue knit cap.

By adamg - 3/17/13 - 9:52 am

Parent Imperfect describes the choice his daughter faces now that she's gotten into both BLS and BLA:

Connie's Mom, to her unending credit, will challenge Connie to remember that both schools have the same curriculum and to think about who she'll be going to school with and to imagine how she will feel in the two schools. She'll do all that challenging, and then she'll listen to what Connie wants and we'll make a decision ... hopefully the right one. Help!

By Anonymous - 3/17/13 - 12:31 am

This is the story of how a drug compounding pharmacy NECC in Framingham Mass., under a deregulated Food and Drug Administration regime passed in 1998, is motivated by greed to expand into drug manufacturing by conspiring with clients to create fraudulent patient prescription records on a large scale yielding wild profits, 44 deaths, and 678 people severely ill with spinal and other forms of meningitis due to contamination in its lab. U.S. authorities say NECC shipped thousands of vials of fungus-tainted methylprednisolone acetate to medical facilities throughout the United States.

By adamg - 3/16/13 - 11:08 pm

A fight outside 180 Columbia Rd. ended around 10:45 p.m. with two men stabbed, one with injuries severe enough to have the homicide unit called in.

By adamg - 3/16/13 - 5:46 pm

The Globe reports they might be visible even this far south.

By adamg - 3/15/13 - 12:59 pm

Charles Pierce remembers the Phoenix:

By adamg - 3/15/13 - 11:44 am

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030; [email protected]

COMMONWEALTH vs. Eric ROMERO.

SJC-11149.

Middlesex. November 6, 2012. - March 15, 2013.

Firearms. Practice, Criminal, Admissions and confessions. Evidence, Constructive possession.

COMPLAINT received and sworn to in the Waltham Division of the District Court Department on April 23, 2008.

The case was tried before Dyanne J. Klein, J.

After review by the Appeals Court, the Supreme Judicial Court granted leave to obtain further appellate review.

Devon Dietz Hincapie for the defendant. Ceara C. Mahoney, Assistant District Attorney (Kevin J. Curtin, Assistant District Attorney, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Brownlow M. Speer, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, & Lenk, JJ.

By adamg - 3/15/13 - 11:08 am

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030; [email protected]

Sanjoy MAHAJAN & others [FN1] vs. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION & another. [FN2]

SJC-11134.

Suffolk. Nov. 5, 2012. - March 15, 2013.

Department of Environmental Protection. Redevelopment of Land. Urban Renewal. Harbors. Parks and Parkways. Constitutional Law, Taking of property. Due Process of Law, Taking of property, Commonwealth's interest in tidelands.

CIVIL ACTION commenced in the Superior Court Department on February 26, 2010.

The case was heard by Elizabeth M. Fahey, J., on motions for judgment on the pleadings.

The Supreme Judicial Court granted an application for direct appellate review.

Denise A. Chicoine for Boston Redevelopment Authority.

Annapurna Balakrishna, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Environmental Protection.

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