Maverick stabbing scene. Photo by Kevin Franck.
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By adamg - 9/19/12 - 11:21 pm
School Committee member Claudio Martinez was late to tonight's committee meeting and boy was he pissed. Seems seven parking spaces around BPS headquarters are designated for School Committee members, but when Martinez drove up tonight, they were all filled, forcing him to find a space somewhere else.
By adamg - 9/19/12 - 10:57 pm
MCAS scores released today show Boston public schools getting their highest scores ever.
But officials acknowledged the Mattahunt Elementary School in Mattapan was one of just two schools in the entire state put on a list of troubled schools at potential risk of a state takeover. The designation means BPS has three years to boost test scores at the school and comes because of declining English and math scores over the past three years.
By adamg - 9/19/12 - 4:36 pm
The City Council was supposed to vote on a proposal by Council President Steve Murphy today to allocate money to study how to redraw district council lines after Mayor Menino vetoed their earlier effort as shoehorning too many minority voters into too few districts.
Instead, the council voted 7-6 to pass a proposal by councilors Matt O'Malley (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) and Tito Jackson (Roxbury) that critics said was pretty much the same thing.
By adamg - 9/19/12 - 10:35 am
Around 10:20 a.m. at 70 Hamilton St. Police were looking for a stocky black male in his mid 20s who was wearing a gray cardigan, but may have found him up on Stoughton Street.
By adamg - 9/19/12 - 10:32 am
The outlaw Josie Dunkin' cupCity Council President Steve Murphy wants to ban "expanded polystyrene" food and beverage containers - the kind we all call Styrofoam, even though they actually aren't.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 7:46 pm
The National Weather Service has issued a high-wind warning through 6 a.m.
A HIGH WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR...WITH GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AT ANY TIME. DAMAGE TO TREES...POWER LINES...AND PROPERTY ARE POSSIBLE WITH WIND OF THIS MAGNITUDE. POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. TAKE ACTION NOW TO SECURE ANY LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 3:47 pm
According to a Boston Police report, a semi-automatic weapon was used to shoot up the area around 7 Rockdale St. around 8:40 p.m. on Monday. According to one report, two women got into a gunfight, but failed to hit anybody.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 12:37 pm
Used to be, guests checking into the West End hotel would be offered a complimentary flute of sparkling Spanish wine with their room keys.
The practice ended Aug. 13, when Boston Police detectives issued the hotel a citation for violating a state law banning free booze.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to punish the hotel - or whether to accept the hotel's argument that that free-alcohol thing prohibition only applies to restaurant and bar happy hours, which have been banned since the Dukakis era.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 12:21 pm
Workers were busy today putting disassembled Swan Boats on a flatbed truck for the trip to wherever it is they store them for the winter.
By adamg - 9/18/12 - 8:18 am
Boston Business Journal reports a local company has come up with robots aimed at further dehumanizing the workforce helping factory workers with repetitive tasks. For some reason, the robot has googly eyes.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 4:16 pm
State Public Health Commissioner Jon Auerbach today announced his resignation over the burgeoning crisis at the former DPH labs in Jamaica Plain, in which thousands of evidence samples in criminal cases were potentially done incorrectly.
It is clear that there was insufficient quality monitoring, reporting and investigating on the part of supervisors and managers surrounding the former Department of Public Health drug lab in Jamaica Plain – and ultimately, as Commissioner, the buck stops with me.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 12:35 pm
A collection of photos of the mayor banging things, including a gong.
Also see:
Mayor Menino Cutting Ribbons.
By adamg - 9/17/12 - 10:45 am
The Boston City Archives posted this photo from 1970s Boston. Can you identify where it was? Click on the image for a larger version.
By Socializing4Justice - 9/16/12 - 2:28 pm
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By adamg - 9/16/12 - 1:11 am
Shortly before 1 a.m. at 58 Decatur St. He was taken to Mass. General and is expected to survive.
By adamg - 9/14/12 - 10:53 am
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that courts have no place in deciding payment disputes between hospitals that treat large numbers of poor people and the state.
In a ruling on the way the state reimbursed Boston Medical Center for treating MassHealth patients in 2009, the state's highest court said the legislature explicitly excluded judicial oversight of the complex calculations - more than 100 pages in BMC's case - used to determine reimbursement, in part by not waiving the state's sovereign immunity protection against lawsuits.
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