WBUR recaps Mayor Wu's annual state of the city address, notes that unlike last time, she made no mention of rent stabilization, which would require approval from a state government that isn't feeling it.
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By adamg - 1/9/24 - 11:32 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect via Cambridge PD.
Cambridge Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed two people at the Porter Square Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and who they say is "a person of interest in multiple assaults in Boston and Cambridge." Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/24 - 9:32 am
Adam Castiglioni took a snap of a contestant thinking hard during Final Jeopardy.
By adamg - 1/5/24 - 3:59 pm
State Rep. Bill MacGregor, who represents West Roxbury and a smidge of Brookline, says he'll send a $5 JP Licks gift card to any young'un in Boston or Brookline who shovels out a hydrant when it's safe to do so after the weekend storm then has a parent take a photo on Instagram, tagged @votebillmacgregor and fills out a form.
By adamg - 1/4/24 - 9:29 am
WBUR reports on a Boston Public Schools document released yesterday that could many of the city's smaller public schools closed as BPS builds out a new system of larger, more modern schools all with the space and equipment needed for a "high-quality student experience." The proposal does not name specific schools; it's meant as a starting point for more detailed discussions this spring with parents and staff.
By adamg - 1/2/24 - 12:46 pm
The State House News Service reports on at-large Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune's plans for the office in which she replaces Councilor Ed Flynn.
By adamg - 1/2/24 - 12:26 pm
A Hingham company that says it did some work for the city of Boston back in the last millennium, then somehow forgot to deposit its payment until a few months ago, is suing the city to demand it re-issue a check that a bank will find acceptable. Read more.
By adamg - 12/31/23 - 2:22 pm
From a 311 complaint about the rusty underside of the Grand Junction train bridge over the Charles.
Boston 311 handles thousands of reports a year on important if prosaic issues: Potholes, malfunctioning street lights, trash, rodents and needles and the like. But every week, there are some complaint that are way out of the ordinary. Take, for example, the person Jeffries Point residents have taken to calling the Gatekeeper: Somebody who keeps locking the entrance to the Harborwalk in that East Boston neighborhood. He would lock the gate, somebody would file a 311 complaint, he'd return with a new lock, somebody would file a new complaint and this time the Powers that Be would file down the slots he'd use to lock the gate. But did that stop him? Read on ...
By adamg - 12/29/23 - 9:20 am
A correspondent writes to ask about lard:
I can’t seem to find lard anywhere in this town. Does anyone have a lead on where I can find some lard?
By adamg - 12/27/23 - 2:04 pm
Covid-19 particles in sewage from southern half of MWRA system, showing a spike, if nowhere as large as at the end of 2021. Source.
By adamg - 12/27/23 - 12:24 pm
We've all been there, l'il buddy: Jarred skunk in Hyde Park.
Wildlife continued to show us that Boston's their world and we're just living in it, from the skunk that wandered sightlessly around Hyde Park until a brave resident rescued it, to the turkey in Roslindale that took on the law - and won - to the coyote that chased a local TV host through Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 12/22/23 - 9:12 am
The State House News Service reports that State Sen. Nick Collins of South Boston has teamed up with a Worcester County Republican to file legislation that would bar cities and towns from deciding whether to accept federal public-safety grants, after the Boston City Council rejected a $13.3-million Homeland Security grant. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/23 - 3:15 pm
A federal appeals court yesterday rejected, again, a bid to block Boston Public Schools from changing its previous grades-and-test-score criteria for admissions to Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/23 - 11:28 am
Wu and Bennett's nephew, Joey, hug as other Bennett familiy members and Alan Swanson look on.
Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today apologized to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, who were investigated and even arrested for supposedly killing Carol Stuart when, in fact, it was her husband Charles who shot her after they left a childbirth class at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 23, 1989. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/23 - 9:27 am
Streetsblog Mass reports Bluebikes and Boston officials are set to announce the impending arrival of battery-powered bicycles to rental bike racks in the city.
By adamg - 12/18/23 - 2:37 pm
Firefighters, police officers and public-works and Eversource crews earned their pay today as a never ending flood of reports came in about downed trees and utility poles, power outages and flooded roads. Here are some of the reports reported to Boston 311 today: Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/23 - 11:32 am
The storm overhead as seen by the GOES-East satellite at 11 a.m. Of course, we have to ask: Just imagine if this were snow.
By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:38 am
Update, 12:45 p.m.: Outage numbers now around 6,112 in Boston, with numerous outages in Hyde Park and Mattapan.
As of 9:30 a.m., Eversource reported more than 3,400 businesses and homes in Boston have lost power - including 1,600 or so in Roxbury, where falling tree limbs knocked out power at 6:32 a.m. and 1,400 in Jamaica Plain, where the power went off at 8:09 a.m.
By adamg - 12/15/23 - 9:55 pm
No doubt you've heard about all the racists jumping on Michelle Wu because somebody in her office goofed and sent out an invitation to an Electeds of Color Christmas party to white councilors, instead of just the Black and Latino ones. It's been in all the papers. Read more.
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