Simmons College says if only it had known what the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association was printing in its bi-monthly newspaper, it never would have taken out ads in it. In response to a complaint about "highly offensive" content in the newspaper, the college marketing team wrote today about the full-page ad the college took out in the current issue of Pax Centurion (in addition to past full-page ads):
MassPoliticsProfs:
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The Karma of Dirty Politics
by Jerold Duquette
The Globe reports:
Obama thanks Boston for sending Kevin Youkilis to Chicago, gets booed
The day after the Globe announced it was hiring key WFNX staffers to start an online alt-rock station, the Phoenix announced, hey, waitaminnit, it's starting its own WFNX online alt-rock station:
The Globe reports Boston's going to get whacked by global climate change, because more water in the ocean is a particular problem along the East Coast.
The Globe announced today it's hired former WFNX staffers Henry Santoro, Julie Kramer and Adam 12 and former program director Paul Driscoll to build an alt-music streaming service that will be available both through the Web and mobile apps.
A launch date and program details will be announced later this summer.
Boston Police rushed to 5 Devon St. shortly after 9 p.m., Mike Flynn reports.
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Boston PD by Fenway Park kicks over bucket drummer's buckets, tells him to stop. He keeps playing. Crowd cheers. Cops booed.
- Jeff Maker
The Library of Congress has a copy of a short movie taken on July 21, 1904 by Edwin S. Porter, a cameraman working for Thomas Edison:
The Supreme Judicial Court, which last year blasted lenders with shoddy paperwork, ruled today lenders who did not hold all the paperwork on mortgages could still foreclose - but will have to be more careful in the future.
The case involves a Roslindale woman who had a promissory note with one lender, but whose actual mortgage the original lender had sold to a company specializing in mortgage servicing. That company moved to foreclose when she missed payments.
Boston Police report arresting a South Boston woman for an alleged case of domestic violence that sent a man to the hospital in serious condition yesterday afternoon.
NotloB reports WGBH-FM is letting one jazz host go and scaling back the other's hours, possibly as it moves to add even more talk and news, because if there's one thing Boston needs, it's a second talks and news NPR affiliate.
Krol, wigless A Charlestown man who'd held up a Main Street bank yesterday didn't get far, thanks to a customer who ran after him and tackled him in the bank parking lot, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says.
Krol is charged with walking into the Cooperative Bank - in a wig, sunglasses and ball cap around 8:45 a.m. - immediately attracting the attention of bank workers - and asking for "100s, 50s and 20s no alarm no die packs" and then walking out with the small amount of money a teller gave him.
According to a statement from the DA's office:
Boston's issued its first heat advisory of the year, for the possible triple-digit temps we might get over the next couple of days - and yes, one tip is to "avoid cooking."
The Boston Business Journal reports the T has some space in several stations (Back Bay, Forest Hills, Harvard, Alewife, North Station, South Station, Airport and Malden Center) it's looking to rent for retail use.
The Journal notes there are several prohibited uses, including the sale of tobacco, scratch tickets and popcorn.
Popcorn? T spokesman Joe Pesaturo says the T has had enough with popcorn because it attracts pigeons and "too much of it ends up on seats and floors of subway cars."
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