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By adamg - 2/3/13 - 12:20 pm

The Globe does a long bio of Annie Dookhan, reveals that she went to Boston Latin Academy even though she lived in Stoughton.

By adamg - 2/3/13 - 10:43 am

WPVI in Philadelphia talked to the owner of the bus that crashed into the Western Avenue overpass last night:

"He said he looked at the GPS, looked down to make the turn and when he looked back up, the bridge was a low bridge, he hit the low bridge," said Talmedge.

By adamg - 2/1/13 - 4:01 pm

In Yiddish, but with English subtitles. Includes an interview with a guy translating Tolkien into Yiddish.

H/t Jeremy Burton.

By adamg - 1/31/13 - 12:33 pm

Blue Line mystery photo

The T wonders if you can figure out where this photo was taken.

By adamg - 1/31/13 - 11:53 am

City councilors from both cities are planning a joint hearing, with the World Class Cities Partnership (yes, that's a thing), to talk about ways of encouraging our smart people to stay here.

By adamg - 1/30/13 - 11:27 am

Mystery Boston building

When and where? From the Boston City Archives, natch. See it larger.

By adamg - 1/30/13 - 7:35 am

City councilors Steve Murphy (at large) and Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End) today will propose setting a limit on how much a homeowner's property taxes can rise from one year to the next.

The two argue that residents in areas undergoing gentrification are being unduly burdened by the fact that as foreclosed and distressed properties get renovated, their property values - and so their property taxes - are going up too fast. In a request for a hearing on a "circuit breaker" provision, they add:

By adamg - 1/29/13 - 8:33 pm

And it's attached:

By adamg - 1/29/13 - 11:09 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today Massachusetts residents do not have a Constitutional right to keep loaded handguns in unlocked bedside drawers.

The ruling by the state's highest court upholds a state law that requires gun owners to either store guns in locked containers or equip them with locking mechanisms when they're not under their "immediate control."

By adamg - 1/28/13 - 9:11 pm

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."

By adamg - 1/28/13 - 11:03 am

Mystery Boston building

By adamg - 1/28/13 - 10:04 am

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:

By adamg - 1/27/13 - 12:26 pm

WGBH compiles a list showing why some politicians should decline to comment on local sports.

By adamg - 1/26/13 - 9:37 pm

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

By adamg - 1/26/13 - 11:20 am

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

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