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By adamg - 11/11/16 - 11:58 am

Boston Metro reports on the increase in both moneys and offers to volunteer after Tuesday.

By adamg - 11/10/16 - 6:37 pm
Looking for Trump in all the wrong places

Jessica Chapel reports Abby here will be in Harvard Square tonight and tomorrow for all those poor Trump supporters.

By adamg - 11/10/16 - 5:36 pm

Read more.

By adamg - 11/10/16 - 11:58 am

A.K.A., Greendale Avenue and Kendrick Street in Needham, yesterday morning.

By adamg - 11/10/16 - 11:40 am

The state has to come up with regulations for pot shops first, and that's going to take awhile. So what to do in the meantime? WGBH says: Tend to your own garden.

By adamg - 11/10/16 - 9:40 am

The Globe reports the good ol' boys were driving around campus being "disruptive" to students. And by "disruptive," they may mean parking outside a center for African and African-American students and jeering and spitting before being booted off campus and going back to Babson.

By adamg - 11/9/16 - 11:06 pm

The Globe reports: Mass. seen as insulated from a Trump repeal of Obamacare. The reason has to do with our preexisting condition of Romneycare; the Globe quotes Gov. Baker (formerly head of Harvard Pilgrim) as vowing to keep the state system running.

By adamg - 11/9/16 - 8:14 pm

Jean Nagy attended an anti-Trump rally and march outside the State House this evening. Above, they're chanting "my body, my choice." Below, they're chanting something a bit harsher: Read more

By adamg - 11/9/16 - 7:55 pm
Calming woman in Somerville

Mark Novak ran across this emotional-support bike and its owner in Davis Square tonight.

By adamg - 11/9/16 - 6:47 pm
Protest balloons at Sam Adams grave in Boston

Suzanne McDaniel noticed the black balloons tied to our local Revolutionary's grave.

By adamg - 11/9/16 - 1:07 pm

This morning, Boston School Superintendent Tommy Chang tweeted:

Students, we ❤️ you. You are intelligent & beautiful. We are here for you today & always. Please share your feelings today.

UPDATE: BPS is offering counseling for "students who may be having a difficult time processing any fears or concerns they may have."

By adamg - 11/8/16 - 8:27 pm

WBUR reports voters decisively defeated Question 2, which would have expanded charter schools, and voted to allow recreational marijuana.

Voters also called for more room for farn chickens and pigs and defeated that stupid Revere slots thing.

In Suffolk County, say hello to your new Register of Deeds, Steve Murphy.

In Boston, results show Question 5, which would add a 1% surcharge to property-tax payment for affordable housing, parks and history, won.

By adamg - 11/8/16 - 3:15 pm

The election therapist IS IN, outside Park Street station, Louise Miller discovers.

By adamg - 11/8/16 - 6:57 am
Line to vote in Copley Square

The line to vote at the BPL in Copley Square shortly after 7. Photo by Catboston.

What are you seeing out there?

By adamg - 11/7/16 - 11:58 pm

So 2004 and apparently still current Idiot Curt Schilling this evening tweeted a photo of a guy at a Trump rally wearing a shirt reading "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required," with an approving "OK, so much awesome here," then spent a few carefree hours telling people who complained to grow a pair and learn to appreciate a joke, then deleted the tweet.

By adamg - 11/7/16 - 6:14 pm
Lucy Stone statue on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay

The statue of suffragist Lucy Stone (the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree) on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall was freshly bedecked with flowers yesterday, as Leslee captured.

Posted under this Creative Commons license and in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

By adamg - 11/7/16 - 10:34 am

WBZ reports on graffiti on Mission Hill and quotes BPD Commissioner William Evans:

We have a few people in our department who are very good at reading graffiti and finding out who’s responsible.

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