Groups representing Haitians and Venezuelans on humanitarian visas in Massachusetts today sued the Musk administration over its decision to end the program earlier than initially scheduled, with no chance for public comment and with odds that the thousands of affected people could be sent back to the same violent conditions the program was designed to help get them out of. Read more.
By adamg - 2/28/25 - 11:42 am
Jocelyn asks:
Anyone have a line on where I can buy a new shovel? We ended up breaking two of them last week trying to shovel up the ice and I'm assuming we'll get a little bit of snow before we turn to spring.
By adamg - 2/28/25 - 11:30 am
Francis Tarasiewicz of the Boston National Weather Service reports he got "the e-mail" yesterday that he was fired, effective immediately.
this wouldn't be half as hard to bear if I hadn't fought my whole life through foster care and impossible odds to serve this great nation. This past month of serving my community has been the honor of a lifetime.
By adamg - 2/27/25 - 10:18 pm
The Dorchester Reporter has the details on Michelle Wu's endorsement today by the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association and its allied EMS union. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/25 - 3:35 pm
Boston Police are warning residents to be wary around alleged HelloFresh solicitors going door to door claiming to be able to get you such a deal on ready-to-eat meals. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 9:57 pm
Secretary of State William Galvin announced today he'll be appointing somebody to oversee Boston elections this year and next to ensure precincts don't run out of ballots like they did last November - forcing long delays and in some cases preventing people from actually cast votes. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 5:53 pm
A correspondent reports:
Got a text poll from Emerson re the mayoral race. Questions on supporting the police not handing over immigrants, does Boston have room to settle refugees, bike lanes and the stadium.
Oh it did also ask if I supported a WNBA team in town which seemed strange.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 12:44 pm
A former Boston cop who is suing over his firing for refusing both Covid-19 shots and tests last week demanded that the judge in the case recuse herself because her husband is the CEO of a company that made devices used in early Covid-19 testing and so she has an undeniable bias. Read more.
By adamg - 2/23/25 - 6:08 pm
We suppose, somehow, the Nooyawka son of the Nooyawk police commissioner, who became a Nooyawk police detective, could suddenly find himself in Boston as detective. Maybe police departments have some sort of detective-exchange program? Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/25 - 5:13 pm
President Musk's human thumb for homeland security last night threatened Boston because Police Commissioner Michael Cox is refusing to turn over immigrants not charged with any crime so they can be stuffed into Guantanamo: Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/25 - 4:30 pm
GBH reports the state's natural-gas providers have agreed to reduce their March and April bills by 5% to help consumers hit with the shock of enormous increases. But don't worry, fans of corporate profits, the companies will recoup the money through extra charges on bills between May and October, GBH reports.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 8:17 pm
Trump's Secretary of Killing Dogs decreed today that "temporary protected status" for several hundred thousand Haitian refugees - many of whom live in the Boston area - will expire Aug. 3 instead of next February, as set by former Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas. His replacement blamed Mayorkas for not considering how a humanitarian policy might lead to the downfall of the American empire.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 11:01 am
An Allston man yesterday sued Mayor Wu and the city's public-health and licensing heads over the way Boston required people seeking entry to most indoor venues to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination between Dec. 20, 2021 and Feb. 28, 2022. Read more.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 1:21 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports that local car magnate Herb Chambers is selling most of his dealerships to some Georgia concern for more than $1 billion. No immediate word if the names will be changed to some mongrelized phrase like all the Boch dealerships that now go by NuCar.
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 6:09 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports that John Snow, Inc., which runs public-health programs in both the US and around the world, has laid off roughly 1,100 employees because the Musk administration has ended USAID funding.
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 5:27 pm
A federal judge in Boston today barred the Musk administration from trying to enforce its White House occupant's diktat that babies born on American soil are not necessarily Americans, even if the 14th Amendment, which remains part of the Constitution, explicitly says they are. 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 - 2/12/25 - 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 - 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.
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