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By adamg - 11/7/23 - 8:28 pm

City results show incumbent at-large Councilors Ruthzee Louijeune and Julia Mejia easily winning re-election - along with more conservative incumbent Erin Murphy - with whom Louijeune is battling for the honorary top spot on the ballot. Read more.

By adamg - 11/7/23 - 8:53 am

Today's the last day for voting for district and at-large city councilors. Boston's made changes in a number of polling locations this year. The state has a page for finding where you vote today. The city has a similar page for seeing which council district you're in. Polls are open until 8 p.m. If you have a mail-in ballot, you can place it in a city dropbox until 8 p.m.

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 5:44 pm

Hey, remember back in the day when the Green Line kept having embarrassing pantograph problems, and the T said in one case it was because the line was too new and in other cases it was because the lines were too old? And then the T promised it was doing stuff to fix the problems?

Yeah, good times. The T reports it's running shuttle buses instead of trolleys along the C and D lines because of a new pantograph problem at Kenmore Square.

By adamg - 11/6/23 - 1:13 pm

GlobalEats takes a look at the restaurants that opened in Boston in the first three decades of the 20th century as new immigrant groups moved into the city. Read more.

By adamg - 11/1/23 - 11:02 am
Block of stores in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this photo. See it larger.

What might have grabbed the guy's eye in the day's paper? Read more.

By adamg - 10/25/23 - 12:35 pm

At-large candidate Bridget Nee-Walsh made the comments at a forum organized by Boston Caribbean-Americans - drawing a rebuke from incumbent at-large Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune, who is herself Haitian-American.

By adamg - 10/20/23 - 9:24 am

J.L. Bell reviews the Boston Archaeology Program's new List of Known Enslaved People in Boston and finds some omissions among the current 2,357 entries, including Onesimus, who introduced the idea of smallpox inoculation, and Phillis Wheatley. Read more.

By adamg - 10/19/23 - 10:13 am

WBUR profiles Dzidzor, who founded the Black Cotton Club as a way to bring poetry to the city.

By adamg - 10/18/23 - 4:32 pm
Scene along the water in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

By adamg - 10/18/23 - 3:31 pm
Tania Fernandes Anderson crying

Fernandes Anderson cries while talking about murdered children.

Ed. note: Video of the discussions on the two resolutions is at the bottom of the story.

Boston City Council President Ed Flynn sent two proposed resolutions on Israel and Palestine to a committee for further study and hearings.

The council's committee of the whole - basically, the entire council - will now schedule hearings on a resolution by Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) to support Israel and condemn Hamas and a separate one by Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) calling for an immediate ceasefire in the region. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/23 - 3:11 pm

City Councilor Michael Flaherty (at large) tomorrow will ask his fellow councilors to unambiguously support Israel. Read more.

By adamg - 10/15/23 - 2:46 pm

Over the last few days, people protesting Israeli actions have been flooding 311 - normally a conduit for reporting potholes and missed trash pickups - demanding somebody do something. 311 workers are now deleting the "reports" as soon as they come in.

After Michelle Wu was elected mayor in 2021, anti-vaxxers tried a similar approach, with no effect, except that 311 didn't remove those from the public database.

By Neal - 10/14/23 - 12:37 am

View of the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973 from Burlington's Civil Defense HQ in Overlook Park on Winnmere Hill. Photo by Steve Duke

Burlington Retro's Robert Fahey recounts the reaction and response in Greater Boston (or more specifically, Burlington) to the Great Chelsea Fire of 1973, which happened fifty years ago today.

By adamg - 10/12/23 - 2:49 pm

The city today announced a program under which Bostonians who have not gotten a Bluebikes pass for the last three years can get one for $60 a year, compared to the normal $129 annual rate.

Bostonians who get MassHealth or SNAP or who meet income requirements can get a year pass now for $5 instead of the previous $50 annual fee.

Application forms.

By adamg - 10/6/23 - 12:00 pm

Mayor Wu and Sen. Ed Markey announced today that Boston has won an $11-million grant from the US Forestry Service to find ways to extend the life of the city's street trees and to help fund educational programs for young people looking to get into careers caring for those trees and other urban flora. Read more.

By adamg - 10/4/23 - 3:55 pm
Michael Flaherty

Animated Michael Flaherty moves for grants.

The Boston City Council today approved acceptance of a total of $3.4 million in federal grants for the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, (BRIC) a BPD unit that collects data and video used to fight crime and terrorism - and which maintains a database of Boston residents accused of being members of local gangs. Read more.

By adamg - 10/4/23 - 12:12 pm
Street with horses in old Boston

The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.

By adamg - 10/2/23 - 9:09 pm

Ann E. Riordan asks:

Where can I get Chinese moon pies in/around Boston? Korean, Japanese or Vietnamese versions also work.

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