City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is calling for a hearing on how to stop the exodus of liquor licenses from the city's outer neighborhoods to Boston Proper and the waterfront.
At Wednesday's City Council meeting, Pressley will explain her bid to change the current arbitrary limit set by the state legislature on liquor licenses in Boston, which she calls an outdated relic of "Prohibition frenzy about alcohol and a power struggle between Yankee legislators and Irish-dominated local governments."
The Friendly’s Fribble has real ice cream once again, MassLive reports.
Transit Police report arresting a Weymouth man for the sort of crime that might make the parents of a young child think twice about ever getting on the T again.
According to police, the parents and their 2-year-old daughter boarded an inbound train at Wollaston around 6 p.m. - to the sounds of a couple across the train arguing with each other. Police say the male yeller, Joseph Pacheco, 43, of Weymouth, twice took a moment off to ask the father for a cigarette. The second time, police say, Pacheco leaned over the toddler's stroller:
WGBH compiles a list showing why some politicians should decline to comment on local sports.
Boston Police report officers who stopped a car with a busted brake light at East Cottage and Batchelder streets in Dorchester yesterday wound up arresting its two occupants after a drug-sniffing dog went nuts
Remember when you'd get so frenzied to buy Red Sox tickets you'd open up two or three browsers on two or three different computers and then you'd sit there for hours and finally you'd get in and all that was left were tickets to some Royals game in August?
Fred Somers tweets:
1st yr in a long time that im not waiting in it. #sorrynotsorry
At least, in Boston. Just over the transom is a press release from Hizzona's office:
The Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts is trying to scare black teens straight with a new ad campaign that warns they face prison time for wearing boxer-showing jeans.
The Atlantic reports the group hopes to extend the campaign to billboards. Maybe they can replace those "Murder is not OK" ads, now that all other pressing issues facing the black community have been solved, except for the scourge of saggy jeans.
The law the group sites, Chapter 272, sec. 16 of the Mass. General Laws, sets out a penalty for "open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior," and is the statute used to prosecute T masturbators and public urinators. It fails to mention anything about saggy jeans. Chap. 272 in general relates to "crimes against chastity, morality, decency and good order."
A reading of the instructions given to jurors in open-and-gross cases suggests the group is talking through its hat: Not only does a jury have to find that a person exposed his or her genitals, buttocks or breasts (the latter if the person is female) but that the person did so with the intent to "produce alarm or shock" among bystanders.
A spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's office confirms his office has not prosecuted anybody for wearing jeans below their hips, and has no plans to:
We'll leave those cases to Joan Rivers and the Fashion Police.
H/t Jason Mihalko.
J.L. Bell recounts anti-Catholic fervor in colonial New England and how George Washington helped bring that to an end, starting with a 1775 edict directed at American troops in the Boston area banning the annual celebration of Pope Night - the culmination of which was bonfire consuming an effigy of the pope.
Albert bitingly accuses Celts of pumping in crowd noise; Celtics deny it.
Dead trains on the Red, Green, Needham and Providence/Stoughton lines (so far) made for another interesting commute for many this morning.
UPDATE: "Significant delays" possible on the Fitchburg Line due to signal problems.
The Wall Street Journal reports Bostonians are not going to lose anywhere near the 1 million pounds the mayor challenged us to lose.
One week, Tim Murray announces he's not running for governor. The next week, the attorney general announces an investigation into illegal campaign contributions. What will next week bring?
A Stoughton man was ordered held in lieu of $30,000 bail after prosecutors say police found a loaded gun in the back seat of his SUV early Tuesday after he was stopped near Morton and Norfolk streets in Mattapan for driving with an expired license.
Darryl Holloway, 26, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition and faces additional penalties because of his record as an armed career criminal.
Do #Democrats like using the term #teabaggers b/c #Obama teabags Sasha & Malia before bed every night? #mapoli #masen #MSNBC #tlot #liberals
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