The now ironically named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today sent letters to law firms across the country demanding to know why they're not doing their part to ensure mediocre white men get jobs. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/18/2025 - 8:39pm
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By adamg - Sat, 03/15/2025 - 10:37pm
Ron Newman attended the Show Your Pride for Democracy rally and protest on Boston Common today. WCVB has more on the rally, organized by protest group 50501.
By adamg - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 3:55pm
The owner of 31 Milk St. downtown has filed plans with the Boston Planning Department to turn the top ten floors of the eleven-story office building into 110 studios and one-bedroom apartments, under Boston's office-to-apartments tax-break pilot. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 11:25pm
WCVB reports a trolley near Park Street apparently rolled backwards into another trolley around 7:30 p.m. The trolleys were evacuated but there were no injuries. The Boston Fire Department responded, but left after determining it was a minor incident - although WCVB reports service was halted between Park and Government Center for about an hour.
By adamg - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 1:42pm
A distraught person filed a 311 complaint this afternoon seeking help with a trash container outside the Four Seasons Hotel: Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 03/09/2025 - 11:38am
Boston Police report the arrest of two men they charge opened fire inside Fete, 25 Kingston St., shooting one man inside the restaurant and another walking outside at the time around 12:20 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 5:33pm
Ron Newman, who has been spending a lot of time at local anti-dictator protests, went to the women's rally and march on Boston Common today, reports: "Every protest gets larger." WCVB has more.
Newman also attended a pro-immigrant rally at the East Somerville library today.
By adamg - Sat, 03/08/2025 - 12:29pm
Update: Two arrested.
A man was shot inside Fete, 25 Kingston St., shortly after 12:20 a.m. Not long after, a second man showed up at Tufts Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the leg he said he got while walking by the restaurant. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/07/2025 - 2:52pm
Ron Newman attended the rally for science on Boston Common today. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 03/05/2025 - 12:26pm
Diane Dwyer snapped the message somebody was beaming onto the Old State House last night, on the eve of both the anniversary of the Boston Massacre and Mayor Wu's testimony before a Congressional committee about immigration and ICE.
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 2:31pm
The two federal buildings downtown are on a new list of "non-core" buildings the government now says it wants to get rid of. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 03/04/2025 - 1:33pm
At-large Boston city councilors Ruthzee Louijeune and Julia Mejia will join with the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition and the ACLU tomorrow to support protections for immigrant communities. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 03/02/2025 - 2:30pm
The Innovation Trail will hold an unusual walking tour for fans of local history that doesn't involve the Revolution: You'll get a look inside the normally closed Verizon Museum of Innovation in Communications, near the spot where Alexander Graham Bell first summoned Mr. Watson and then stroll over to Mass. General's Ether Dome, where William Morton was the first doctor to publicly use anesthesia in surgery.
Starts at 5 p.m. on March 26. Tickets are $23.
By adamg - Sat, 03/01/2025 - 3:32pm
Ron Newman photographed the rally at the Parkman Bandstand today in support of a nation fending off a mass murderer and now, a raping convicted felon. Small crowd perhaps, but messages about it only started surfacing this morning.
By adamg - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 1:59pm
"TGIF," Trout House Comics said this morning as the sun came up over Boston Harbor.
By adamg - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 10:50am
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday approved a new liquor store on State Street downtown and gave a convenience store on Tremont Street in Chinatown permission to start stocking beer and wine. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 4:23pm
The Boston Licensing Board today ordered a one-day license suspension for Estella, 49 Temple Pl. downtown, for failing to cooperate with police looking into a Jan. 10 incident in which three guys were kicked out for after getting into an argument with another customer, then stood outside for an hour waiting for the guy to come out. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/18/2025 - 9:45am
By adamg - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 11:22pm
Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.
Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 12:29pm
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.
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