The Globe reports as many as 200 cases in federal court may have been tainted by everybody's favorite drug chemist.
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By adamg - 10/11/12 - 12:53 pm
MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who spit at a T bus driver around 2:30 p.m. on Oct.
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 9:48 pm
Members of the Boston Teachers Union voted 695-5 tonight to accept a deal worked out with the city, the union reports.
By jonallen - 10/10/12 - 4:48 pm
The 36-hour Giving Common Challenge is going on now (until 8PM today)! Help Bikes Not Bombs win $25,000!
Bikes Not Bombs is excited to announce that we are participating in a 36-hour challenge, from 8am today until 8pm tomorrow, hosted by the Giving Common, a new initiative of the Boston Foundation. To celebrate the launch of the Giving Common website, they are giving out over $150,000 in prizes to Massachusetts-based nonprofit organizations!
Bikes Not Bombs is fortunate to have such a large network of grassroots supporters. With your help, we have a real shot at winning the grand prize for the most unique donations during the 36-hour period - $25,000!. Second place gets $12,000 and third place gets $10,000. BNB is a small organization that is making a big difference every day. To us, $25,000 would be transformational!
Now is the time to show your support for Bikes Not Bombs and make a gift! Each gift must be $25 or more and each person can only donate to BNB one time. All donations must be made online through BNB’s page on the Giving Common website by 5pm tomorrow!
Make your gift, spread the word on facebook and twitter, and check the leaderboard throughout the event to see how BNB is doing! Here is the link to Bikes Not Bombs’ direct page - please share it far and wide!
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 12:18 pm
Boston Police report arresting six men, ages 20 through 46, on a charge of enticement of a person under 18 after they allegedly tried to hook up with some online girls who turned out to be police officers.
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 11:08 am
Ned Bachelder, who organizes a local get-together of programmers who use Python, was getting tired of trying to figure out how to feed the herd. So he's written a script he calls pizza.py to give him an answer.
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 10:40 am
Updated to reflect the fact that while O'Neill's term expires, he hasn't indicated that he wants to retire from the School Committee.
Boston School Committee member Michael O'Neill's term expires in January and the mayor is looking for people who might want to fill his seat - although O'Neill could also reapply for the position.
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 7:48 am
Seems a Bostonian abroad was returning home when he was stopped at LAX and arrested on charges of carrying a variety of interesting items in his luggage (a smoke grenade, body bags, handcuffs, a biohazard suit, billy clubs, knives and more), although what caught the attention of customs agents was his unusual attire: Body armor and flame retardant pants under a trench coat.
By adamg - 10/10/12 - 6:47 am
The Herald, natch, loves it some schadenfreude over a spat between Dennis Lehane and the Globe over a review - which the Globe corrected - that originally took Lehane to task for portraying a character in a new book as a magical Negro, when, in fact, the character is white.
By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:46 pm
Boston Sports Media Watch dissects the latest column by a Globe sportswriter about how those damn kids have no respect at all, not like in his day.
Last week:
The Globe writer who hates bloggers.
By adamg - 10/9/12 - 1:30 pm
Boston to a T considers yesterday's Brigham Circle trolley-vs-trolley incident.
By adamg - 10/8/12 - 10:54 am
First the Godmayor and now a supporting role in this Dark Knight remake, featuring a dramatic climax high atop stately Wayne Manor the Christian Science Center.
By adamg - 10/7/12 - 11:47 am
We think we'll go for a walk, Phoenix declares, in response to some Salon body collector.
By adamg - 10/5/12 - 12:42 pm
The Gray Lady reports on the current school-zone issue as if it's all still about racial desegregation in a system that's now 87% minority instead of the fact that it's really in reaction to the fact that too many of our schools still aren't anywhere near as good as they should be, at least not until down near the end of the story.
By adamg - 10/5/12 - 8:50 am
Jennifer Forman Orth, our go-to expert for invasive species, reports that with falling temperatures, more residents can expect their homes to be invaded by these brown bugs that, when startled, smell up the joint.
In most cases, she writes, they're actually western conifer seed bugs, which showed up here in the 1990s and which, fortunately, are not messing with local ecosystems:
You can often find them resting on the sides of houses, on doors and on window screens, where they are hoping to find a way to sneak in.
By adamg - 10/4/12 - 2:00 pm
Valentine fired, and on Thursday, leaving plenty of time for the "shocking" revelations to be phoned in for the Sunday papers.
By adamg - 10/4/12 - 7:35 am
BPS handout. Photo by Bob Goodman.
Boston school officials last night proposed a limited grandfathering plan that could leave hundreds of families scrambling to get kids to two or more different schools under the major changes in assignment zones proposed to start in 2014.
By jonallen - 10/3/12 - 12:59 pm
The Friends Booksale has Portuguese Books! Get them while there here!
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