Ongoing allegations of drug activity & prostitution result in the Mayor's office pulling out the ol' Scarlet Letter. Bring back the stockade!
Weather
Who's going to be the first reporter to bend down, gather up some snow, make a snowball and toss it?
Are those snow clouds moving in over the Great Blue Hill this morning? The scene from the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
A weatherman can hope. The French Toast Alert now at blue, still too early for major panic, but we're eying that near-empty cinnamon bottle ...
Just in time for snow, Boston has launched its Adopt-a-Hydrant program, in which you promise to shovel out a specific hydrant after a storm, like, say, the ones we're supposed to get tonight and Saturday.
Meanwhile, both Brookline and Cambridge have referral programs to match residents with snow with teens with shovels.
Cambridge City Councilor Minka vanBeuzekom tweets this morning:
After light snow best time 2 see urban animal tracks - like rats. Do you have any?
Read more here from author Brad Johnson, a Boston native, who writes about climate and public policy for ThinkProgress.
Leslee noticed some trees are putting out blossoms even as they're dropping leaves.
Views of the Northeast enjoyed the rushing waters of Porter station today.