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Firefighters on second floor of Monponset Street house
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 5:54 pm

The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 26 Monponset St. around 4:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/25 - 4:40 pm

Jonatham Kamens reports that he and other employees at the US Digital Service got word from their new Musk overlords last night they have been fired. Read more.

Anti-Musk protesters outside Tesla showroom in Dedham
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 1:35 pm

Roving UHub photographer Clay Gollobin shows us three of the people protesting the acting president outside his showroom in Dedham today.

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A gull with an apparent four legs eating a clam
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 12:16 pm

On a trip down to Plymouth, Mary Ellen spotted a rare four-legged herring gull enjoying some fresh shellfish.
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By adamg - 2/15/25 - 12:08 pm

The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning Washington and Poplar streets along Adams Park and creating a more plaza-like feel to the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with South and Roberts streets. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/25 - 11:01 am

A group of gun groups and a student from Brewster at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy yesterday sued the state over a regulation that prohibits people between 18 and 20 from owning and walking around with guns - and say this will be their first crack at winning repeal of a law passed last year that also tightens restrictions on automatic weaponry and "ghost" guns. Read more.

Protesters hold signs for democracy, against broligarchy
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 11:22 pm

Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.

Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 6:09 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports  that John Snow, Inc., which runs public-health programs in both the US and around the world, has laid off roughly 1,100 employees because the Musk administration has ended USAID funding.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 3:04 pm

Boston Police report officers with a search warrant arrested a Randolph man in an apartment on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Square, where they also found a loaded rifle, three guns and bags of coke, crack and fentanyl Wednesday morning. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 2:16 pm

Telegram.com reports the Republican Town Committee in Hudson has canceled an event next week where local y'all quedaists Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni were scheduled for some post-pardon adulation just because people who objected to their glorification were promising protests and vowing to close their accounts at the bank whose meeting room they were going to use. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 11:13 am

The Supreme Judicial Court this week ruled a company that owns an office building and freight warehouse on five acres of Massport land off McClellan Highway in East Boston has to pay Boston property taxes -  mainly because in 1993, the state Senate only sort of voted to override a Bill Weld veto of a measure that would have exempted the building, but not really. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/25 - 8:54 am

The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved plans by the owners of Tipsy's, the former Figueroa's at 739 Parker St. on Mission Hill, to add spirits to the beer and wine they already sell. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:07 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man on charges he drove into two pedestrians, killing one, on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets on the night of Jan. 18 and then drove off. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 6:18 pm

Isabel Ravenna posts some video of people protesting the acting president's Tesla car and truck lines outside his showroom in the Prudential Center on Boylston Street today. Small group, but next time they should try more publicity in advance.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 5:27 pm

A federal judge in Boston today barred the Musk administration from trying to enforce its White House occupant's diktat that babies born on American soil are not necessarily Americans, even if the 14th Amendment, which remains part of the Constitution, explicitly says they are. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 12:31 pm

The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a Taunton convenience-store owner to replace the old Simco's hot-dog stand at American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street with Tasty Kabob and Curry. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:01 am

From an Asian-Peruvian fusion restaurant in Charlestown to a Colombian eatery in Hyde Park, the Boston Licensing Board today awarded 28 new beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses to restaurants across the city, as part of the 225 new licenses granted Boston by the state legislature last year. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/25 - 10:14 am

The Boston Licensing Board today gave Side Chick, 692 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody spoke against the change at a hearing yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/25 - 11:06 pm

Federal officials swore today they have not yet carried out billions of dollars in threatened cuts for biomedical research and that they won't slice the funds until at least after a Boston judge decides at least one of the lawsuits filed over the cuts announced on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/25 - 7:46 pm

The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that the chain, long kept out of Boston by Tom Menino, is looking to move into Dorchester and Mattapan, with the backing of Mattapan state Rep. Russell Holmes, who says he's looking for "a Chick-fil-A in Black Dorchester, or [anywhere] in Dorchester" with local franchise owners.

By anon - 2/12/25 - 6:14 pm

They’re drinking right from the spout.

By adamg - 2/12/25 - 5:46 pm

The Boston City Council today voted 12-1 to approve a request to the state legislature to let Boston temporarily increase the tax rate on commercial property to try to ease the tax burden on residential property owners caused by the sharp decrease in the value of commercial buildings downtown. Read more.

Proposed Pardee builidng
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:37 pm

Boston University has filed plans for an 11-story building to house the Pardee School, home to all of its international-studies programs. Read more.

By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:19 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports that Josh Kraft says if elected he would reduce the percentage of new housing units that have to be rented or sold as affordable from 20% to the 13% level before Michelle Wu became mayor. Kraft says this, coupled with tax breaks for landlords who agree to limit annual rent increases, would boost housing.

By adamg - 2/12/25 - 12:21 pm

City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) today blocked immediate council action to accept a $14.4-million federal grant for safety improvements at 50 intersections across the city. Read more.