The owners of 21 North End restaurants and the North End Chamber of Commerce yesterday sued the city over its 2022 fees for restaurants in the neighborhood that wanted to use public sidewalks and streets for patio seating - and its ban on such patios last year - alleging the Wu administration and a local residents' groups hate Italians for some reason. Read more.
The State House News Service reports on at-large Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune's plans for the office in which she replaces Councilor Ed Flynn.
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Shiva Ayyadurai, who has more MIT degrees than you, has filed a new federal lawsuit in which he alleges a federal cybersecurity agency, Facebook, Google and Elon Musk's X are all conspiring to limit his social-media reach - with a reaction time measured in minutes and using techniques perfected by British censors and the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office. Read more.
The State House News Service reports that State Sen. Nick Collins of South Boston has teamed up with a Worcester County Republican to file legislation that would bar cities and towns from deciding whether to accept federal public-safety grants, after the Boston City Council rejected a $13.3-million Homeland Security grant. Read more.
Update: Thanks to a reader who is far more eagle-eyed, we've updated the story because there are three candidates from Massachusetts listed on that ballot.
Take a look at an official New Hampshire Democratic primary ballot and after you realize that Joe Biden isn't listed (because he believes New Hampshire has had more than its 15 minutes worth of first-primary-in-the-nation fame), you'll notice three candidates from Massachusetts: Perennial head-boot wearer and pony promiser Vermin Supreme of Rockport and Don Picard of Cambridge. Read more.
Wu and Bennett's nephew, Joey, hug as other Bennett familiy members and Alan Swanson look on.
Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today apologized to Willie Bennett and Alan Swanson, who were investigated and even arrested for supposedly killing Carol Stuart when, in fact, it was her husband Charles who shot her after they left a childbirth class at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Oct. 23, 1989. Read more.
No doubt you've heard about all the racists jumping on Michelle Wu because somebody in her office goofed and sent out an invitation to an Electeds of Color Christmas party to white councilors, instead of just the Black and Latino ones. It's been in all the papers. Read more.
Louijeune explains her votes.
The City Council today rejected an anti-terrorism grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security when it deadlocked, 6-6, on accepting the grant. Read more.
Flynn before realizing why Mohamed (l) and Blackmon were getting the congratulations he'd signed.
The Boston City Council yesterday officially congratulated two New Mission High School students for their activism without realizing that that involved organizing a walkout at the Hyde Park school last week to call for an end to Israeli warfare in Gaza and freedom for Palestine. Read more.
Boston city councilors today condemned what they call an abuse by the state-owned Reggie Lewis Center at Roxbury Crossing: Boston student athletes have to clear out by 3:30 p.m. so busloads of students from well-off suburbs can use its state-of-the-art facilities for training and not get home too late. Read more.
Former Massachusetts GOP Chairman Jim Lyons today sued several people who supported his arch-nemesis, Charlie Baker, for defamation for what he says was a multi-year campaign to paint him as a racist who particularly hated Asian-Americans. Read more.
Josh Kraft, of the New England Patriots Krafts, is suddenly being touted as as possible candidate for Boston mayor in 2025, because, well, why not? CommonWealth Beacon reports he already has a bunch of ties to Boston, including a long turn as president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. He's a past Charlie Baker donor and gave money to several council candidates supported by Trump backer and New Balance Chairman Jim Davis, who doesn't like the incumbent.
Stanley Staco posts the map. Incumbents Ruthzee Louijeune, who got the most votes citywide and Erin Murphy, who came in second, won precincts across the city. Read more.
The Globe reports the death of John Walsh, who helped Deval Patrick become the state's first Black governor in 2006, using strategies that would help send Barack Obama to the White House a couple years later. Read more.
The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure that calls on councilors to stop bullying subordinates, especially ones who work for other councilors. Read more.
Engraving by John L. McGee of the attack on Sumner.
Markwayne Somethingorother, the junior senator from Oklahoma, didn't actually throw down with Teamsters President (and Medford native) Sean O'Brien yesterday, due to a stern talking-to by Bernie Sanders, but he wanted to. Read more.
Teamster President Sean O'Brien, the pride of Medford, really gets under the skin of Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Somethingorother, to the point where Markwayne offered to throw down right there in a Senate hearing and had to be reminded by Zayde Sanders from Vermont that he was a U.S. senator and he needs to sit his frickin' butt down now.
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