Chinatown

Does downtown really need another expensive tunnel?

adamg — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:31:45 -0400

Third Decade cannot believe the MBTA has a spare $1.2 billion lying around to dig a bus tunnel to connect the two Silver Lines:

... [T]he MBTA is determined to build a tunnel where no one wants it for a transit route that the people who live near it don't even want. ...

More ramps

adamg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:49:28 -0400

The turnpike authority continues to press forward with plans for more ramps between Back Bay and South Boston.

2nd Suffolk issues

adamg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:26:58 -0400

Mike Ball surveys some of the issues in the repeat race between incumbent state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and challenger Sonia Chang-Diaz.

What Chinatown and Somerville have in common

adamg — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:34:06 -0400

Tufts gets a $2.5-million grant to study the effects of living next to a major highway in both Chinatown and Somerville:

... As part of the study, to be known as the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH), participants will be asked to submit written surveys and blood samples to be tested for evidence of heart and lung disease. "Many people live close to I-93 and I-95, and they may well be exposed to these tiny particles, but they aren't aware of it," says Bart Laws, PhD, senior investigator at the Latin American Health Institute. "The particles are invisible and odorless.” ...

Sorry, Globe: Dianne Wilkerson didn't qualify for the ballot with 3,000 signatures

adamg — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:42:01 -0400

The Globe reports on state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson's desire to avoid another embarrassment like two years ago, when she, oops, forgot to file her nomination petitions on time. The paper writes:

This year, Wilkerson qualified for the primary ballot with a whopping 3,000 signatures, 10 times the amount she needed.

Not quite. As Linda Rodriguez at the South End News reports, Wilkerson actually only qualified with 428 signatures, just one more than her opponent, Sonia Chang-Diaz. This doesn't mean the remainder of her 3,000 signatures were bad, necessarily, just that elections officials stopped looking after a certain point.

What's a guy gotta do to get a hacked iPhone in this town?

adamg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:38:50 -0400

Take a trip to Chinatown, Will Ng reports.

Watching the Greenway fill in

adamg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:15:50 -0400

Liam posts some before and after photos and info about Greenway tours and volunteer groups.

Empty spaces in Chinatown

adamg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:00:39 -0400

Will Ng photographs all the vacant storefronts in the neighborhood.

Beware the white Escape Hybrid with all the cameras

adamg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:48:19 -0400

Will Ng photographs the city vehicle cruising Chinatown, taking photos of license plates with its four cameras, no doubt in search of cars with enough tickets to warrant a visit from Captain Boot.

Chinatown's hole in the ground

adamg — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:41:44 -0400

Will Ng reports the hole in the ground at Washington and LaGrange that was supposed to become a 26-story building is still a hole in the ground, but now it's filled with white gravel instead of just dirt.