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By adamg - 3/13/24 - 1:11 pm
FitzGerald

The City Council will consider a proposal to grant handicap parking placards to pregnant people in their third trimester or who have given birth within the past six months.
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By adamg - 3/7/24 - 5:41 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports on the situation at "Boston's NPR news station."

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 2:18 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure in which the city would shift federal Covid relief money originally targeted to increasing the composting of garbage to leasing a 5,500-square-food cold-storage facility to give food pantries and soup kitchens a central place to store refrigerated foods - including food "rescued" from restaurants and markets. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 1:36 pm
Louijeune pulls an Oprah and puts a jar of honey under every other councilor's desk

Louijeune pulls an Oprah, tells all the councilors to look under their desks for some honey.

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure that will make it easier for residents to raise bees.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 3:18 pm

Boston Police report home-owning seniors are being targeted by larcenous alleged paving contractors who use pressure tactics to try to sign them up for what seem like cheap paving or masonry jobs that turn into expensive money-pit operations. Read more.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 9:33 am
Murphy

Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 11:53 am

The Public Interest Legal Foundation of Arlington, VA, which is convinced large numbers of unregistered people are voting, today dropped its lawsuit demanding a data dump of all of Boston's voter registration records, just four days after it filed it.

The group's filing, in US District Court in Boston, does not explain the change of heart, but says it was doing so "voluntarily," which means it's reserving the right to re-file it at any moment.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 4:21 pm

The City Council this week approved a measure under which the city will hire two companies to install 250 chargers along Boston streets to let people without their own driveways top up their battery-powered cars. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 11:07 am

Update: Although the group has a history of making claims that voter rolls are full of unregistered voters - to the point of publishing names and contact info of voters it claims are illegal, even if they are sometimes not - the group's complaint does not make any specific claims about the nature of Boston's registered voters, so the story has been edited to reflect that. Also, the group has dropped the complaint.

A Virginia-based group that claims it's only interested in ensuring fair elections yesterday sued the Boston Elections Department to try to gain access to the city's voter rolls. Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/24 - 10:27 am
Boston tree map

Fronm the Boston tree map.

All of Boston's street trees, mapped.

The data comes from the city's inventory of both street trees and trees in parks, which is available for download as spreadsheets.

More info on Boston's "urban forest" efforts.

By adamg - 2/21/24 - 10:21 am

A housing advocacy group today sued a series of Boston-area landlords and brokers it says violated state law by refusing to consider prospective tenants who said they had Section 8 or other government housing vouchers. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 12:38 pm

MBTA General Manager Phil Eng says the T's subway lines will be free between 3 and 7 p.m. to try to make up for this morning's three-line disaster, which he blamed on some sort of failure in a National Grid "feeder cable" supplying power to the T via North Station. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 7:55 am
T pain chart by Bacon Doughnut

Update: T blames National Grid feeder cable.

The MBTA reports the Orange, Green and Blue lines all died this morning due to some sort of power and signal problem. The power is back, but trains are moving like molasses (in the traditional sense, not the Boston sense). Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 2:56 pm

Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) today withdrew his proposed resolution calling for a negotiated Gaza ceasefire to let him rewrite it so that it doesn't cause "more division" rather than lessen it. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 3:59 pm
Noman after the storm

Voo Doo reports:

Look, I made a No Man!

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 11:44 am
Official Boston city seal and the newfangled underlined B

Official old and newfangled Boston city symbols.

City Councilor Sharon Durkan (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) says it's time for Boston to set up a licensing office to all the companies just dying to show off their Boston cred on clothing, mugs and anything else you can slap a bold underlined sans-serif B or some good old-fashioned "Sicut Patribus Sit Deus Nobis" - or even just a design featuring the city-owned Faneuil Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 9:30 am

And that means you'll have until 4 p.m. on Thursday to save your parking space, the one you've so arduously dug out (except in the South End and Bay Village, where space savers are never allowed).

By adamg - 2/12/24 - 10:19 am

Mayor Wu has declared a snow emergency for Tuesday, which means BPS schools and municipal buildings will be shut. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 2:53 pm

The City Council agreed today to a hearing to press for action to keep BTD and other city workers safe on the streets following a Friday attack in Grove Hall that sent a BTD supervisor - just months from retirement - to the hospital with serious injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 1:22 pm

Last week, Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) demanded and won immediate passage of a federal public-safety grant, which he said was too important to wait for a hearing so that the council's four new councilors and others could get up to speed on it. Read more.

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