City Councilor and mayoral candidate John Connolly says Boston could end a $1.6-billion backlog in public-school renovation by working out deals with local non-profit institutions with expansion plans: Faster approval of their plans if they agree to help the city out with school projects.

The City Council today considers Connolly's request for a hearing on his proposal, which would go beyond the payments-in-lieu-of-taxes plan already in place, under which non-profit institutions make annual payments to the city that range from nominal to several million dollars.

Xconomy updates us on Follica, a local company that says it might have a new baldness cure that involves scraping the top layer of your chrome-dome scalp off and then applying a particular drug that seems to stimulate hair growth in wounded skin.

From the folks at the Boston City Archives, who ask: When and where? See it larger.

Stanley Staco reports the shooting happened around 5:40 p.m. inside the SaveALot at 333 Martin Luther King Blvd. and that a suspect was arrested not long after and not far away at 33 Catawba St.

Boston Police report two men were shot early this morning at 249 Humboldt Ave.

One of them is at least somewhat beloved in this area and is going away, while the other is Dane Cook.

The Globe reports on Bill Keating's recent trip to Russia.

Meanwhile, the Dig wonders if maybe local police might have caught onto the brothers if they hadn't been too busy following environmental activists, peaceniks and occupiers.

Bay Windows reports Boston Police are investigating several recent robberies in which men met up with somebody either at a bar or via a hookup app, brought them home, then woke up to find they'd been drugged and robbed.

CBS Sports reports.

If only there were a Pittsburgh beer anybody in Boston drinks that we could counter-boycott. Prairie Rose Clayton suggests boycotting Iron City, but Matt O'Connor is not sure Iron City really qualifies as beer.