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By adamg - 3/26/18 - 12:20 pm

JP Progressives and the Boston NAACP are hosting a forum for the four people running so far for Suffolk County district attorney this year, starting at 7 p.m. on April 9 at English High School in Jamaica Plain.

By adamg - 3/15/18 - 11:18 am
Rollins

Rachel Rollins, who has served as an assistant US attorney in Boston and an assistant district attorney in Plymouth County and , announced today she is joining the race to succeed Dan Conley, retiring after this year as Suffolk County District Attorney.

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By adamg - 3/5/18 - 12:04 pm

The Globe introduces us to the three candidates (so far) for Suffolk County District Attorney (including a current assistant DA who acknowledges his role as a prosecutor might be a drawback this year) as well as insurgents running for DA in Middlesex and Worcester counties.

By adamg - 3/1/18 - 8:40 am

The Revere Journal recaps a recent meeting between Tom O'Brien, whose HYM wants to turn Suffolk Downs into a mixed-use development and the Revere City Council, which featured much bantering between the current mayor and the guy he replaced, who is now a councilor, as well as some favorable comments about the proposal by another councilor:

"I’ve always said Shirley Avenue is like a volcano about to explode, and this is going to help"' said Ward 2 Councillor Ira Novoselsky

By adamg - 2/26/18 - 11:56 am
Carvalho

State Rep. Evandro Carvalho, who had announced plans to run for the 1st Suffolk state-senate seat vacated by Linda Dorcena Forry, announced today that he's decided to run instead for the Suffolk County District Attorney's post that Dan Conley recently announced he'll be leaving. Read more.

By adamg - 2/20/18 - 4:24 pm

Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley announced today he will not seek re-election this fall. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/18 - 6:34 pm
Revere Airport

See below for the entire ad.

The five-alarm fire that destroyed the Sozio Appliance store on Squire Road yesterday took out Revere's last link to its days as an airport city - the Sozio was housed in what was the last remaining hangar from the one-time Revere Airport - as the Boston Architectural College Library informs us. Read more.

By adamg - 2/17/18 - 6:01 pm
Sozio's fire seen from the North End

Smoke from the fire could be seen from the North End. Photo by Paul Kafasis.

The Sozio Appliance store on Squire Road in Revere was completely engulfed in flames in what has turned into a four-alarm fire. The fire has spread to neighboring businesses and cut off power to parts of Revere.

By adamg - 1/25/18 - 9:44 am

The Revere Journal reports the city licensing commission is considering requiring the Squire Lounge to only serve beer in plastic cups after a detail cop was smashed in the head with a beer bottle while trying to break up a fight. The lounge objects, saying plastic cups look cheap and that people determined to slug their way out of a fight would just resort to chairs or purses.

By adamg - 1/20/18 - 11:31 am

The Revere Journal reports Jake the Turkey, who'd increasingly proven to be a menace to both traffic and himself, has been relocated to woodsier surroundings in cranberry country.

For months, Jake has been in Ward 4 and surrounds. Just about everyday he strutted down Broadway, stopping traffic, posing for cell phone photographs, pecking at car tires and anything he found interesting on the sidewalk.

By adamg - 12/5/17 - 5:22 pm

The Globe reports HYM, which is co-owned by a guy who used to run the BRA, has asked the Baker administration to let it begin construction on two buildings in its proposed mega-development tout suite, which means without requiring it to do any of those annoying environmental reviews normally required of large projects along waterways, in this case Chelsea Creek, as a way to signal to Amazon that Boston is willing to do whatever it takes to bring it here short of, perhaps, human sacrifice. And if Amazon doesn't pick Suffolk Downs? Well, que sera sera.

By adamg - 11/29/17 - 2:06 pm
Damaged Revere cruiser

Damaged Revere cruiser near the Garden. Photo by Devil Duck.

A man wanted for a robbery on Squire Road in Revere today led police on a chase into Boston, where he was arrested behind Boston Garden, State Police report. One Revere cruiser was damaged in the pursuit. Read more.

By adamg - 11/29/17 - 8:55 am
Suspect in custody in Revere

Rick Macomber was on scene when state and local police took the man into custody near Railroad Street in Revere shortly after midnight. NECN and WHDH have more.

By adamg - 11/16/17 - 9:09 am

The Revere Journal reports the Revere Conservation Commission has approved an eight-story, 175-room hotel on Revere Beach Boulevard at Ocean Boulevard.

By adamg - 11/9/17 - 10:37 am
Suffolk Downs proposal

From the city's proposal to Amazon, based on HYM's plans.

The HYM Investment Group, headed by a former BRA director, yesterday filed an initial plan for its project to turn a tired old race track on the East Boston/Revere line into a development that could ultimately include 10,000 housing units, two malls and lots of office space when completed in 15 or 20 years. Read more.

By adamg - 10/30/17 - 11:05 pm

BloodHorse reports that the company that now runs Suffolk Downs - the land for which it's sold to a developer keen on attracting Amazon - is working with New England horse breeders and racers to look for a new site on which to build a replacement track.

H/t Steve Holt.

By adamg - 10/28/17 - 9:59 am

Transit Police report arresting a man they say displayed a gun to a bus driver and threatened to kill him and a fellow passenger he'd been bothering. Read more.

By adamg - 10/27/17 - 8:54 am

The Revere Journal reports on a meeting between the Revere city council and Tom O’Brien, whose HYM now owns the 161-acre Suffolk Downs site and who says Amazon going somewhere else wouldn't change his plans to build something like Assembly Row in Somerville, only "much better."

By adamg - 10/24/17 - 1:52 pm
Renegado

Henry "Renegado" Santos Gomez, 32, pleaded guilty Friday to involvement in a RICO enterprise, the US Attorney's office reports.

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By adamg - 10/20/17 - 9:33 am

Look to Boston

Boston today released its bid to Amazon that calls for creation of a new Amazonian neighborhood at Suffolk Downs that would include 10,000 new housing units - some even aimed at people who don't work for the company - 1,500 hotel rooms, four new shopping districts and 40 acres of open space and the 8 million square feet of office space Amazon wants. Read more.

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