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By adamg - 11/3/20 - 9:07 am

Beata Coloyan captured Ayanna Pressley joining a dance line outside the Muni in Hyde Park this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 11/3/20 - 8:44 am
Line at the Conley School on Poplar Street in Roslindale

Michelle McCarthy got in line to vote at the Conley School in Roslindale shortly before 8 a.m. She reports it took about 40 minutes from the corner of Dale and Poplar to get inside to vote. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/20 - 4:53 pm
Boarding up on Washington Street in Jamaica Plain

The UHub Mobile Action News Unit toured Logan and Cleary Squares, Dedham Square, Centre Street in West Roxbury, Roslindale Square, Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, Egleston Square and Forest Hills this aftternoon to see how worried commercial property owners in the outer neighborhoods were getting ready for action tomorrow. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/20 - 1:30 pm
Shuttered Marshalls in Downtown Crossing

Roman Lilligren wandered the empty, boarded-up Washington Street in Downtown Crossing in advance of Election Day. Read more.

By adamg - 11/2/20 - 1:04 pm

Just in case, the State House News Service reports.

By adamg - 11/2/20 - 11:42 am

COVID-19 Media Availability 11-2-20

Mayor Walsh and Police Commissioner William Gross said today police presences will be ramped up over the next few days to deal with any potential consequences of Tuesday's election. Read more.

By adamg - 11/1/20 - 12:34 pm

The BU News Service reports state elections officials are feeling good about poll staffing Tuesday thanks to an influx of poll workers from among young people and new volunteers. Only Ashburnham, Lawrence and Lowell report having vacancies for poll workers.

By adamg - 10/30/20 - 2:40 pm

Faced with a possible temporary restraining order, the Secretary of State's office this afternoon agreed not to file any complaints with Twitter about anything Shiva Ayyadurai tweets between now and 9 a.m. the day after the election. Read more.

By adamg - 10/29/20 - 9:45 pm

Pru management sent a memo to tenants that they can expect to see boarded-up entrances, barriers and increased security starting today.

By adamg - 10/27/20 - 9:10 am

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said Worldy Armand had no political motive in setting a Copley Square ballot drop box on fire, but her office will seek to have him detained behind bars as a danger to society at a hearing on Friday. Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/20 - 4:12 pm
Wanted for setting ballot drop box on fire

Update: Suspect charged.

Boston Police have released photos of a guy they say set fire to the ballot drop box outside the Copley Square library around 4:10 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/24/20 - 11:48 am
Waiting to vote at the Allston library

Brad Squirrels got in the long line, which stretched down North Harvard Street, to vote at the Honan-Allston BPL branch this morning. Read more.

By adamg - 10/20/20 - 9:13 pm

Update: Federal judge says candidate won't get a dime from Galvin.

Shiva Ayyadurai charges Secretary of State Bill Galvin used his immense influence over Twitter to get the platform to silence him for two weeks at a critical point in his write-in campaign for US Senate mere weeks after he had lost his bid to get on the ballot as a Republican - a campaign he says he was forced to undertake because the state committed "election fraud" - which is, of course, the only reason a household name such as himself could possibly have lost the primary to a nobody from nowhere, like what's his name, Kevin O'Connor. Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/20 - 10:19 pm
By adamg - 10/17/20 - 10:43 am
Early voting line in Allston

Voting line at 11 a.m. on Islington St. in Allston, outside the Jackson-Mann. Photo by Chris Wagner.

Boston today opened early-voting locations at several locations across the city, including Gate A at Fenway Park. Between now and Oct. 30, the locations will change (for example, the Fenway Park voting is only this weekend).

Each early voting site will also have a drop box for people who requested mail-in ballots. In addition, Boston has installed 17 drop boxes at City Hall and a number of libraries. They're available seven days a week through 8 p.m. on Nov. 3.

By adamg - 10/14/20 - 6:21 pm

Gov Baker says he "cannot support Donald Trump for president," but stopped short of endorsing Joe Biden.

By adamg - 10/14/20 - 4:08 pm

The city reported this afternoon that it's mailed out 80% of the mail-in ballots residents have requested for the November elections, with the rest to go out soon. Read more.

By adamg - 10/12/20 - 10:01 pm

Seems it wasn't enough for Shiva Ayyadurai to lose the Republican primary for Senate to the man who will lose to Ed Markey. Several UHub correspondents report getting robo-calls over the past couple of days urging them to write in "Dr. Shiva" on their November ballots for Senate to avenge what he says was a conspiracy to deprive him of his rightful place on the Republican ticket. Read more.

By adamg - 10/7/20 - 8:22 pm

The New England Journal of Medicine, based in Waltham, took the unusual step today of calling for regime change because of the death-filled chaos our national response to Covid-19 has become: Read more.

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