Beacon Hill

Remembering

adamg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:31:37 -0400

16WadeSt photographs members of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment in front of the memorial to the 54th on Beacon Hill.
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It's too bad there's not an extra penalty for being dumbasses

adamg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:34:43 -0400

You'd think if you'd just held up some guy at knifepoint in the Public Garden, you might want to get away from the area fast. Boston Police report, however, that when they arrived, they took the victim for a ride in a cruiser - and that they promptly spotted the trio - two of them 16 and one 15 - near the Common. All three arrested and charged with armed robbery.

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.

Charles Street station, April, 1969

adamg — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:01:40 -0400

Photo from back in the day.

Mystery trucks on Beacon Hill

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:52:20 -0400

Steve S. wonders what could possibly have been in the two Budget trucks that required a phalanx of Boston Police motorcycle cops to escort them as they turned onto Beacon from Charles a little after 11:30 last night.

Ed. Capt. Obvious note: Maybe they were just making sure they didn't get on Storrow Drive. Thank you, I'll be here all week.

The Globe needs to evaluate its policy on not naming people in stories

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:17:35 -0400

Today's Globe story on the Beacon Hill cleaning lady states:

Because no charges had been filed by last night, the Globe is withholding the woman's name.

Which is understandable. But the story then gives enough details about the woman's professional life that any bored Web surfer with 10 minutes to spare could quickly determine her name and even her social-security number.

The Globe really needs to come into the 21st century: Either don't provide enough gratuitous details about the woman's life to make looking her up easy or just print her name.

Yes, I posted her name yesterday (thanks to the Globe for mentioning she lived on the fourth floor, which led to the Boston online assessing records, which, since she is an owner-occupant, yielded her name and then the resulting Google search). Should I have?

Eat burritos, get gas

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:23:53 -0400

Jonah explores Villa Mexico, a burrito stand built into Grampy's Gas Station on Cambridge Street, across from MGH. He concludes:

[Y]ou will have a hard time finding a better grilled burrito in Boston than the one served at Villa Mexico.

Longfellow Bridge reduced to one lane each way

Ron Newman — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:53:18 -0400

A brand-new press release from the DCR:

DCR CLOSES INSIDE LANES OF LONGFELLOW BRIDGE TO ALL TRAFFIC

Agency also bans large trucks from the bridge

Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) officials today announced that effective Saturday morning, June 28, the inside lanes in both directions on the Longfellow Bridge will be closed to all traffic.

Also, all large trucks will be prohibited from the Longfellow, and will be detoured to other bridges across the Charles River. Cars, buses, and light trucks will continue traveling on the outside lanes of the bridge.

Tying one on on the Longfellow

adamg — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:27:32 -0400

Fenix posts photos of repair work on our favorite troubled bridge, the Longfellow - from nighttime T work to replace ties to a crew inspecting the bridge from below.

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.