Joe Kidston watched the sun go down over the water and way out there, Boston, from Hull this evening.

Boston City Councilors Ruthzee Louijeune, Julia Mejia and Henry Santana (all at large) this week will formally propose changing the way Bostonians elect municipal officials to a more Cambridge-like system in which voters would rank candidates in order of preference. Read more.

The YouTube channel NASS just posted a pretty cool restored/colorized video of our own fair city. Worth subscribing for some fun historical video from all over the world, but this one hits particularly close to home. Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4gJ2Bbzm8

Mayor Wu today endorsed Allison Cartwright for one of those election positions that long ago ceased having any policy issues on which we could judge candidates: clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County: Read more.

The state House of Representatives today passed a measure that would give Boston 205 new liquor licenses - most designated for Zip codes where large national chains have little to no interest in setting up shop - to dole out over the next three years. Read more.

Dan Kennedy discusses a Times story on some alleged Russian dupe who's set up a series of "news" sites to spread disinformatsiya around the US, including the alleged Boston Times. What, you've never heard of it? The Times fills you in on what you're missing: Read more.

The Herald reports that Jorge Mendoza-Iturralde, one of the North End restaurant owners with beef over dining on patios on public sidewalks plans to run for mayor against Michelle Wu next year. Read more.

A federal judge on Friday sentenced former BPD K9 officer Joseph Robert Fisher to 20 months in prison and two years of probation both for embedding himself in the screaming mob that failed to stop American democracy at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in general and ramming a chair into a Capitol police officer then pushing him to the ground in particular. Read more.

A mighty little light particle has jogged (read: teleported?) its first quantum marathon around the universal hub in a groundbreaking new scientific study. Harvard phsyicists used existing Boston-area telecommunication fiber networks to send the particle over a roughly 22-mile loop through Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown, and Boston between two quantum computers located a floor apart in Harvard labs.

Think of it as a simple, closed internet between point A and B, carrying a signal encoded not by classical bits like the existing internet, but by perfectly secure, individual particles of light.