The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by a Taunton convenience-store owner to replace the old Simco's hot-dog stand at American Legion Highway and Canterbury Street with Tasty Kabob and Curry. Read more.
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 11:01 am
From an Asian-Peruvian fusion restaurant in Charlestown to a Colombian eatery in Hyde Park, the Boston Licensing Board today awarded 28 new beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses to restaurants across the city, as part of the 225 new licenses granted Boston by the state legislature last year. Read more.
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 10:14 am
The Boston Licensing Board today gave Side Chick, 692 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester, permission to extend its closing time from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Nobody spoke against the change at a hearing yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 11:06 pm
Federal officials swore today they have not yet carried out billions of dollars in threatened cuts for biomedical research and that they won't slice the funds until at least after a Boston judge decides at least one of the lawsuits filed over the cuts announced on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 7:46 pm
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that the chain, long kept out of Boston by Tom Menino, is looking to move into Dorchester and Mattapan, with the backing of Mattapan state Rep. Russell Holmes, who says he's looking for "a Chick-fil-A in Black Dorchester, or [anywhere] in Dorchester" with local franchise owners.
By anon - 2/12/25 - 6:14 pm
They’re drinking right from the spout.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 5:46 pm
The Boston City Council today voted 12-1 to approve a request to the state legislature to let Boston temporarily increase the tax rate on commercial property to try to ease the tax burden on residential property owners caused by the sharp decrease in the value of commercial buildings downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:37 pm
Boston University has filed plans for an 11-story building to house the Pardee School, home to all of its international-studies programs. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:19 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports that Josh Kraft says if elected he would reduce the percentage of new housing units that have to be rented or sold as affordable from 20% to the 13% level before Michelle Wu became mayor. Kraft says this, coupled with tax breaks for landlords who agree to limit annual rent increases, would boost housing.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 12:21 pm
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) today blocked immediate council action to accept a $14.4-million federal grant for safety improvements at 50 intersections across the city. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 12:05 pm
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let Gavin Moseley, who operates Borrachito and the Garret in the Echelon building at 70 Pier 4 Blvd. in the Seaport, open a third joint next door, a sports bar called Rocco's. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 9:30 am
The Globe reports GBH is removing the dreaded word "diversity" from its Web site in the hopes it won't be sent to its room without dinner.
As of five minutes ago, Boston's other NPR news station, WBUR, still had a link on its home page to a 2021 essay by CEO Margaret Low that used two other naughty words: "Diversity, equity and inclusion at WBUR." She began: Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 3:07 pm
A Wellesley developer has unwrapped its plans for the old Poor Clare Nuns monastery at the Arborway rotary in Jamaica Plain: Turn the former residence into 38 apartments for seniors and then build an all-wood 85-unit condo building behind it. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 1:51 pm
A federal magistrate today approved extradition to Turkey for a teenager facing the equivalent of motor-vehicle homicide charges after he allegedly sped around a 17-m.p.h. curve at more than 100 m.p.h., slamming into people on the side of the road, killing one of them and injuring four others. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 12:29 pm
A woman attending a work event at Ned Devine's in Faneuil Hall Marketplace on Sept. 25 told police the last thing she remembered was going into the women's room after 8:30 p.m. - until she woke up in a stall around 2:15 a.m., all the lights off and nobody else in the locked-up bar. Read more.
By adamg - 2/11/25 - 10:30 am
The Massachusetts Council of Churches and 26 other religious groups, including the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Association, this morning sued Homeland Security and ICE over their announced intentions to have agents storm religious sanctuaries in their efforts to find brown people to deport. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 10:35 pm
Three local research universities and other private and public universities across the country this evening sued the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services over the way they suddenly slashed federal funds for research, including money they had already agreed to pay. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 6:49 pm
Update: Massachusetts and New York hospitals and a national group of medical schools ask to join suit. Complaint linked at the end of the story.
A federal judge in Boston today blocked the National Institutes of Health from making immediate cuts in research grants - many already approved by the government - and to file proof now and then every two weeks that it is continuing to distribute the money. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 3:11 pm
A federal jury today acquitted Litang "Henry" Liang, a former director at Chinatown Main Streets, of charged that he spied on members of Boston's Chinese-American community and tried to recruit some of them to back the regime, according to court records. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 1:12 pm
Update: Judge grants temporary restraining order blocking the cuts.
Massachusetts and 21 other states today sued the federal government over its plans to slash funding for National Institutes of Health grants, including money the government had already agreed to pay out. Read more.
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