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By adamg - 7/7/12 - 9:50 am
A trade association of contractors who install home security systems charges the two telecommunications companies are violating state law and possibly putting residents' lives in danger by letting unlicensed technicians install their own burglar alarms and smoke detectors.
In a lawsuit originally filed last month in state court but transferred this week to US District Court in Boston, the Massachusetts Systems Contractors Association charges:
By Anonymous - 7/7/12 - 4:22 am
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[/float]Rethink Brown has a new report that looks a Scott Brown's record during two years as US Senator.
The report is organized in four parts;
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 11:48 am
The BRA is hiring an Innovation District manager, the description for which sounds like the description for the people who run the city's Main Street programs in older 'hoods, only more innovationier - the successful candidate will attempt to recruit high-tech and biotech companies, instead of hardware stores and restaurants.
By adamg - 7/6/12 - 10:02 am
The Globe reports, adds that while the editor himself continues to refrain from public comments, the officer who wrote a column with a joke about Egyptian men having sex with their dead wives "stands behind" everything he's written.
By adamg - 7/5/12 - 1:42 pm
UPDATE: No right-wing wankfest - station will a Mike 93.7 successor.
The Phoenix reports the station it's selling to Clear Channel might be about to become Boston's new home of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Jimmy Severino, at least, if you follow where talk1017.com leads to.
By adamg - 7/5/12 - 12:11 pm
People's United Bank vows to stay out of Pax Centurion. That makes seven advertisers that have pledged to stay away from the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association newsletter because of its content.
By adamg - 7/5/12 - 10:21 am
UPDATE: That was fast! At 10:41 a.m., James Conroy (of the Chicago Conroys) tweeted that the lady and the hole are, or rather were, in Manchester, England, and we say "were" since the photo of one Val Kelly pointing out a pothole was posted in May, 2010.
Ever vigilant UHub visitors yesterday quickly poked, well, holes, in the photo of a Stevie Nicksian woman pointing to a large pothole at "222 Cambridge St." in a complaint filed via the city's Citizens Connect. The street markings are not American, the fence behind her looks suspiciously European and who the hell wears a long black coat and scarf in the sort of temperatures we've been having lately?
The Mayor's Office of Constituent Service, which runs Citizens Connect, reports it couldn't find the hole at either of the city's 222 Cambridge Streets (yes, of course Boston has identical addresses in different neighborhoods; paht a the chahm and all). But they're determined to find it, so:
The first person to identify the actual location of the hole in the picture will win two tickets to a SummerBoston event. Detectives, on your mark, get set, go!
Post your answers here or tweet them @NotifyBoston.
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 6:09 pm
Boston Police are investigating a stabbing around 4:30 p.m. at 116 Northampton St. that sent one teen to nearby Boston Medical Center. At least one suspect was quickly apprehended, but police are looking for other possible suspects.
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 2:32 pm
Darnell McDonald tweeted shortly after 2 p.m. today:
Just got off the phone w/ Mr. Cashman Happy to announce I'm a new Member of the N.Y.Y. #Happy4th #blessed
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 1:55 pm
UPDATE: City says hole is not at either 222 Cambridge St.; offers reward for hole's actual location.
Some hole.
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 1:14 pm
Phill Hunt was thirsty today:
I wanna go for a drink at Higgs Boston.
Hillary, however, suggests it may be too late:
Higgs Boston - it's behind an unmarked door, down a staircase, next to a Dunkies. If you have to ask, you're not cool enough to go there.
And, in fact, there is a surprising number of Google results for the term Higgs Boston.
But what does it all mean? Technology reporter John Moe sums it up, in fewer than 140 characters, no less:
"I'm wicked hahd to find." - The Higgs-Boston Particle.
Chris Marstall adds:
Higgs Boston represent! Take that New York, lets see your Higgs!
To which Sean Frederick piles on:
"How do you like them atoms?" #higgsboston
By adamg - 7/4/12 - 1:09 pm
The Phoenix's Chris Faraone surveys several years' worth of trash talking in the pages of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's newsletter. As a bonus, the Phoenix posts a six-year archive of the newsletters, handy now that the union has taken down all the online versions from its site.
By adamg - 7/3/12 - 11:39 pm
Brian D'Amico reports a man was stabbed in the stomach around 10:40 p.m. at 1 Aspinwall Rd. He was taken to Boston Medical Center.
By adamg - 7/3/12 - 2:51 pm
Boston Police report a teenager was shot around 12:30 a.m. on Monday at 960 Parker St.
By adamg - 7/3/12 - 11:43 am
The Boston Police Patrolman's Association took down several years' worth of online back copies of Pax Centurion, which has recently lost some advertisers over its longstanding racist, homophobic and sexist content.
Here are a couple of tastes of what you'll miss (both are largeish PDF files, so give them a moment or two to come up):
By adamg - 7/2/12 - 8:20 pm
Petition drive in support of the show that went away with the rest of the oldies on 103.3.
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