Politico reports (scroll way down for "Yahd Signs and Bumpah Stickahs") that current City Councilor Erin Murphy on Saturday announced endorsements by nine labor unions for her bid to get elected clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County - in a press release that showed the logos of 49 labor unions and groups, at least one of which says, no, it's not endorsing her this time around.

Proving, perhaps, that graphic design is not her passion, Murphy told Politico there's no there there, because the graphic was next to a photo of her running for city council last year, when she did have the endorsements of all 49 groups, so there:

There's another graphic problem with the mailing, which Poltico did not note: The logo at the top, which indicates she's running for a job encompassing all of Suffolk County, has a map that only shows Boston, leaving out the other three communities in the county - Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop.

In announcing her bid to leave the city council, Murphy cited her decades as a BPS teacher and her years on the council as more than enough experience to tackle an administrative job at the state's highest court that involves, among other things, overseeing lawyer discipline and admission to the bar.

She is running against Allison Cartwright, who has extensive actual experience with the court system: She's been a lawyer for 23 years, and is currently managing director for the Committee for Public Counsel Services.

The MBTA reports all is now as close to well as it gets on the Blue Line, after a switch problem between Orient Heights and Suffolk Downs that was bad enough to require a little holiday bustititution.

H/t Rob for the headline.

The Rat City Arts Festival, which as its name implies, is in Allston, is sponsoring a program to artists to paint a bunch of empty black rat-bait stations, which will then be spread around the neighborhood for residents, and the more artistically inclined rodents, to enjoy, sort of like the city's utility-box painting program, just lower to the ground:

Yes, let's turn these Rat traps into beautiful pieces of art. Both for neighbors of Allston-Brighton and Rats, we all deserve to see amazing artwork when walking through our neighborhood. These traps, which rarely stop any rats, can become something better, something beautiful.

Selected artists, who have until April 19 to submit proposals, will get $100 a box, but have to supply their own paint.

The group adds that lovers of rat-eating hawks and owls needn't worry: The painted boxes will not be baited with rat poison or anything else, just adorned with a QR code that anybody bending down to take a look can use to get more information about the artist and the program.

To be clear, there are no harmful elements within the box to humans or to rats. These are empty rat trap boxes. No person or rat will be injured in the making or display of our rat traps.

A UHub correspondent reports he was on the outbound Red Line platform at Charles/MGH around 6:15 p.m:

I looked down onto the 1-lane roadway and saw protestors whom I think had abandoned a vehicle in the Cambridge-bound lane (to block traffic behind them -- it's a single-lane road) and then pulled this big chain across the roadway to further prevent access. "Elbit Out" is the sign by the chain.

Elbit is an Israeli defense contractor with an office in Central Square.

Ron Newman reports he was on Newbury Street around 5 p.m., when marchers walked by on their way to Mass. Ave. and the Mass. Ave. Bridge: