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By adamg - 5/13/24 - 2:58 pm

Mayor Wu and family and two BPS students are at the Vatican this week for a climate summit hosted by the Pope. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/24 - 8:20 pm

So far, the auroras we've seen have been a fun phenomenon but haven't caused any problems on earth. A series of auroras over several days in 1859, though, was so powerful they knocked out telegraph service across North American and Europe - and even started small fires in some telegraph offices, including in Springfield. Read more.

By adamg - 5/11/24 - 4:46 pm

Henry Santoro reports that Jasper White, 69, has died.

White, born in New Jersey, became known for his seafood at Jasper's, which he opened in 1983, and Summer Shack. He closed Jasper's in 1995 to spend more time with his family - then opened the first Summer Shack across from the Alewife T stop. White, who also authored cookbooks, sold Summer Shack in 2017.

By adamg - 5/9/24 - 12:41 pm

CommonWealth Beacon takes a look over disagreements about how the city should deal with a declining office-space market - and the resulting potential loss of property taxes.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 3:47 pm

The Courthouse News Service reports on a hearing today before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on the City Council's decades-long policy of having a local member of the clergy open its weekly meetings with an invocation.

The hearing came on the Satanic Temple's appeal of a district court judge's ruling allowing the council to continue not inviting the group to give an invocation.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 9:11 pm

Jacqueline Jones, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, was announced as the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize today for her No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era (Amazon link). Read more.

By adamg - 5/3/24 - 9:42 am

News item: Britney Spears says she's moving to Boston.

Tom Brady's condo on Comm. Ave. in the Back Bay is now for sale. Or do you think she'd be one of those people who buys an actual house in, oh, Newton, then says she's from Boston?

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 10:46 pm

Rob Leikind, New England director of the American Jewish Committee, is not having the City Council's resolution on Gaza: Read more.

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 9:10 pm
Parrott Street in Hyde Park

Some of the craters Councilor Pepén described on the privately owned Parrott Street in Hyde Park.

After dealing with the issue of Gaza today, Boston city councilors agreed to tackle a more traditional council issue: Potholes, more specifically, the rough shape of the surprising number of private ways the city still has. Read more.

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 2:09 pm

The City Council voted 11-2 today for a resolution, sponsored by Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of humanitarian aid for the region, the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza. Read more.

By adamg - 4/25/24 - 9:30 pm

The state Ethics Commission today fined Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden $5,000 for the way the DA's press office released a statement that basically accused his opponent of sexually assaulting a girl when the two were in high school. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 1:50 pm

The Boston Office of Nightlife Economy today announced $10,000 grants for groups and individuals to put on "nighttime activation" events to give non-sleepyhead Bostonians something fun and free to do after the sun goes down, between July and December. Read more.

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 5:08 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports that after all 16 members of the Boston Landmarks Commission - which has oversight over demolition of any Boston building more than 50 years old - criticized Wu's handling of several major projects in the city, she fired its executive director, Rosanne Foley. Foley was appointed to the post by then Mayor Walsh in 2015.

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 11:05 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that the company that sells space on billboards on MBTA property in Boston has to pay city property taxes on the structures. Read more.

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 9:51 am

CommonWealth Beacon takes a look at the new Boston Policy Institute, whose donors it won't reveal - unlike the older, more staid and currently leaderless Boston Municipal Research Bureau. The group's organizers say they have to keep their donors secret to avoid retribution from City Hall.

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 12:10 pm

The Herald and the Globe report Councilor Ed Flynn was alarmed when 200 runners raced through his district in the 26.True race.

Among those not concerned: Mayor Wu.

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 11:11 pm

A group of white and Asian-American parents - and their California-based law firm - this week asked the US Supreme Court to overturn rulings by federal courts in Boston that the School Committee did nothing wrong when it changed the way students are accepted to the three exam schools by including Zip codes in addition to grades as a criterion. Read more.

By adamg - 4/18/24 - 12:47 pm

Bibliotequetress asks:

Anyone know where to buy fresh winged bean pods in Boston?

By adamg - 4/15/24 - 9:13 pm

The mayor's office and the BAA announced the fastest man, woman and non-binary runners in today's Marathon: Miles Batty, an MGH orthopedic surgery resident from West Roxbury who finished in 2:25, Ariana Maida, a Dana-Farber physician's assistant from Jamaica Plain, who completed the course in 2:48:50 and Nonie Anderson, a BC Law School student from Brighton, whose time was 3:44:18. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/24 - 11:36 am

Update: Haverhill Police report 911 is back up.

Reports are coming in from police and fire departments across the state that the 911 system that connects you to your local first responders isn't working, so if you're having an emergency and 911 doesn't work, you'll have to look up your city's or town's direct numbers.

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