Mayor Wu has declared a snow emergency for Tuesday, which means BPS schools and municipal buildings will be shut. Read more.
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By adamg - 2/7/24 - 2:53 pm
The City Council agreed today to a hearing to press for action to keep BTD and other city workers safe on the streets following a Friday attack in Grove Hall that sent a BTD supervisor - just months from retirement - to the hospital with serious injuries. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/24 - 1:22 pm
Last week, Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) demanded and won immediate passage of a federal public-safety grant, which he said was too important to wait for a hearing so that the council's four new councilors and others could get up to speed on it. Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/24 - 2:17 pm
Bibliotequetress asks:
Looking for restaurant recommendations for *vegan/vegan friendly longevity noodles* in Boston, pref less expensive than Myers & Chang (a student wants to pick up the tab for her fam of 5).
By adamg - 2/6/24 - 9:48 am
Boston announced today it's accepting applications from restaurants that want to use public sidewalks and curbs for seasonal outdoor patios - except along the narrow, crowded streets of the North End, where restaurants will again be barred from setting up tables along the curb. Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/24 - 9:23 am
Rendering of the UFO that hovered over WBZ by a WBZ employee. The X in the lower right represents a flashing light; the arrow the object's movement.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a unit at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, collected and investigated UFO sightings - including a number in the Boston area (two in West Roxbury alone). Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am
City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.
By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:17 am
Weber explains his proposal.
The Boston City Council yesterday agreed to look at setting up a pilot program to help tenants facing eviction by giving them access to a housing attorney. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/24 - 3:46 pm
Ed Flynn, worrying about Boston's neighboring cities.
The Boston City Council today approved a $13.3-million federal homeland-security grant without the normally required hearing after Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) warned there was no time left, that surrounding communities that would share the grant need the money now. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/24 - 4:15 pm
Mayor Wu is asking the City Council to begin deliberating the end of an independent BPDA - which she wants to subsume into a new Boston Planning Department completely under the control of the mayor and the city council - and with a new emphasis on urban planning and affordable housing. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/24 - 2:17 pm
A judge has ruled that two men facing charges they helped ferry two dozens guns from Alabama to Boston will have to stand trial, rejecting their requests to dismiss their indictments on Second Amendment grounds.Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 3:31 pm
The Boston City Council agreed today to study the idea of getting into the bus business, with small shuttle-type buses, to serve routes - and hours - that the T doesn't. Read more.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 1:01 pm
At 11:40 a.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Orange Line after one of its shiny new Orange Line trains developed an embarrassing "door problem" at Tufts Medical Center.
By adamg - 1/24/24 - 12:43 pm
City Councilor Julia Mejia (at large) had a proposed grant from the Department of Homeland Security sent to a committee for further study before the committee as a whole votes on the grant, which would fund regional anti-terrorism and natural-disaster response.
By adamg - 1/22/24 - 12:27 pm
The Boston Registry Division has released the top 20 baby names for 2023.
By adamg - 1/19/24 - 10:37 am
The Boston Registry Division is booking appointments. Because of the crush of demand, they're booking weddings in 15-minute increments, but afterwards, you're free to wander around and linger as long as you and your wedding party (of up to ten people) want. Free interpretation services available.
By adamg - 1/19/24 - 9:21 am
CommonWealth Beacon reports Mayor Wu is looking at ways to continue the free-service pilot on the 23, 28 and 29 bus routes past its current planned end of Feb. 29.
By adamg - 1/18/24 - 1:16 pm
The Boston Water and Sewer Commission is out with some recommendations on how to keep your pipes from bursting with the temps making like a submarine and diving. Read more.
By adamg - 1/18/24 - 12:24 pm
Draganfly, a Saskatoon-based drone maker, announced this week that Mass General Brigham will use its cargo drones to get around the Boston area's notorious traffic by delivering to its home patients from the air.
The company makes drones with drop-down winches and "quick-release delivery boxes" that can whiz around with up to 67 pounds of stuff, driven by pilots sitting in a command center.
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