CBS reports it's hired a guy named Joe Breezy out of Atlanta to serve as music director at Amp 103.3, which means they might be about to expand their current playlist, which now consists of "Titanium," "Gangnam Style," that new song by Taylor Swift and that new song by Rihanna.
WBZ reports some international aptitude test showed Massachusetts eighth graders are among the best in the world - the Massachusetts kids ranked second in math and sixth in science. And that makes them the wicked smartest kids in the US, at least as judged by this particular test.
David notices Boston transportation services tend to be built in fives and then the powers that be eliminate one of them: There used to be five Green Line branches, five Silver Line routes and five terminals at Logan.
What's going on here? Do the planners have spooky Mickey Mouse hands? Does Boston overbuild then scale back? Shrinkage?
David Bernstein reports on the first person to announce a race for one of the four at-large council seats next year:
The Herald reports Gov. Patrick is looking at replacing toll takers with electronic systems.
WBUR rounds up the top highest salaries for college presidents in Massachusetts.
How has the MBTA changed / grown / shrunk during the past 117 years?
Check out the visualization below to see the birth of the Green Line in 1895, the expansion of the Red Line through 1985, and the "repositioning" of the Orange Line. Descriptions of the changes included under the map.
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Boston Police report a man walking down Joy Street shortly after midnight was jumped from behind by a guy wielding what appeared to be a taser:
The victim told officers, he was walking in the area of Joy Street and he heard footsteps behind him. As the victim turned to acknowledge the person, he was grabbed from behind and a struggle ensued. During the struggle, the male suspect began swinging an unknown object with a blue light on the end of it, which the victim believed was a taser. The victim was able to break free and the suspect ran in the opposite direction.
The tugboat Liberty suffered an engine fire off Georges Island shortly after 8 a.m. today - just as a man was falling off a fishing boat.
The Boston Fire Department promptly summoned its dive team, which promptly got stuck in traffic because it's not based on the water. However, the Coast Guard reports the fire was declared out before the BFD marine unit got out to the tugboat and that a passing boater picked up the person in the water.
The folks at the Boston City Archives ask: When and where was this photo taken? See it larger.
Associated Press catches up with Michael Richard Smith, the Maine man who's been living in a canoe and tent on Boston Harbor. He prefers to be called a "fellow citizen," rather than homeless.
Firefighters check out the Kenmore wounded. Photo copyright Brian D'Amico.
A concert by 2 Chainz at the House of Blues was quickly followed by a station-closing brawl on the Green Line platform at Kenmore station.
Mike Moura reports at least three people were injured before MBTA Transit Police gained control of the platform, EMTs removed the wounded and the station was reopened around 10:45. The T reports the three were taken to Mass. General with minor injuries.
Riptor reports:
The Globe reports Boston is unveiling a new Web site and iPhone app (sorry, Android and Blackberry users) that let you get a sort of dashboard look at how the city's performing in a variety of areas - based on a $650,000 overhaul of the city's back-end data systems.
On the Web site, each of the main tiles lets you open up even more statistics related to the department it's from.
All kinda cool, but statistics are kind of meaningless without some context and may actually prove misleading depending on how they're used - especially in a large-ish city like ours.
Gah! Kidlet had to provide cover on the porch tonight when we came back from the supermarket - she had to fight the little buggers off as I opened the front door.
Dirty Old Boston is a Facebook page where you can see tons of photos of the "Boston/Cambridge area as it appeared before the Gentrification of the 80's began."
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