By adamg - 2/5/25 - 3:42 pm

Boston Police report a man was shot at 35 Tennis Rd. in Mattapan around 11:30 p.m.  Read more.

Protesters outside
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 3:02 pm

APB captured the scene outside the State House today, part of a 50-state protest. Read more.

Green Line maintenance vehicle making its way up Commonwealth Avenue
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 2:32 pm

Greg Hunt spotted this plein-air trolley moseying up the B Line yesterday.

OK, OK, it's really a Green Line power-department catenary-checking vehicle, but still. Imagine if they had summer drink service on that.

Tania Fernandes Anderson discusses NDAs
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 2:03 pm

The Boston City Council today voted unanimously to prohibit councilors from requiring their employees to sign NDAs or similar documents as a condition of employment. Read more.

By adamg - 2/5/25 - 11:49 am

I think I've fixed the problems with the text box on the commenting form (but let me know if I'm wrong), at least for folks with accounts on the system. 😃 Read more.

Rendering of proposed electronic billboard on Stuart Street
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 9:45 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal yesterday approved plans by the Boch Center and a billboard company for an electronic billboard on Stuart Street that the center's CEO says will provide enough lease income to help it continue its programs in the community. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:41 pm

Unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers yesterday asked a federal judge in Boston to order Co-President Musk to stop pretending his "fork in the road" directive telling federal employees to quit now is anything but a blatant violation of federal law. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 10:47 pm

Three former members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team today formally charged Harvard and other Ivy League schools with what they call a brazen conspiracy to force trans rights down American collegiate throats by letting a trans athlete compete in and win a women's race in a 2022 championship at Harvard's Blodgett Pool. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 10:33 pm

WBUR reports on Josh Kraft's first day as an announced candidate for mayor, in which he said one answer to the city's housing crisis would be giving landlords tax breaks if they agreed not to raise rents. He also called for a pause on construction of new bike and bus lanes, but said he would support the city's "Trust Act" sanctuary-city status for immigrants.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:51 pm

You may have heard about the barely pubescent kids currently trying to run rampant through government computer systems that handle trillions of dollars in transactions and data on millions of Americans. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:09 pm
Educational expert and former Boston School Committee member Mary Tamer yesterday sued a collection of New York-based educational-reform groups, charging they fired her in September as their Massachusetts coordinator - in the middle of the battle over an MCAS ballot question - not because she wasn't doing her job well but because their CEO, former Providence mayor Jorge Elorza, has strong disdain for women, particularly older ones. Read more.
Proposed birthing center with illuminated birth lights
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:12 am

The Zoning Board of Appeal voted today to hold off any vote for at least three weeks on a proposed building that would house a birthing center and offices for five other non-profit groups at 14 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, so that organizers can hold more meetings with neighbors and a Roxbury community group to try to address neighbor concerns. Read more.

By adamg - 2/4/25 - 9:21 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports  Boston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman found dead of stab wounds inside 43 Claybourne St. in Dorchester around 2:45 p.m. on Monday.

By adamg - 2/3/25 - 1:41 pm

Two city councilors want BPS to start installing cameras on school buses to help police track down and fine people who ignore stopped buses and any kids who might be getting off or on them. Read more.

Wu announces proposal
By adamg - 2/3/25 - 10:56 am

Mayor Wu this morning announced a plan that would require food-delivery companies to obtain city permits, buy insurance for their delivery people and hand over data to the city on where all those people are going with their food - and how fast. Read more.

By adamg - 2/3/25 - 9:53 am

Update: Police say Joseph Donohue, 65, was stabbed repeatedly.

Boston Police report they are investigating the suspicious death of a man on a houseboat at the Charlestown Marina off Shipway Place in Charlestown. Read more.

By adamg - 2/2/25 - 10:47 pm

Update: Of course, he got played like a fiddle, so no tariffs for now, at least not on Canadian, Mexican goods. 

Irving Oil, based in New Brunswick, is alerting its New England heating-oil customers their bills are going up 10% Tuesday, when 47's new tariffs take effect (although the 25% figure is more widely known, it's actually 10% for energy products). And the Globe reports that 80% of all of New England's gasoline and diesel fuel comes from Canada - mainly from an Irving refinery in New Brunswick - along with 90% of Logan's jet fuel.

By adamg - 2/2/25 - 8:29 pm

The Huntington News reports on e-mail from the Northeastern sociology and anthropology department that urges readers not to interact with any ICE agents, but instead send them to the school's legal office: "Even if they say they have a warrant, do not assume the warrant is valid."

By adamg - 2/2/25 - 5:19 pm

Come on in! Kick the tires, click some thumbs and tell me everything that needs fixing! Read more.

Fire coming through the roof of four-story building
By adamg - 2/2/25 - 12:05 am

Boston firefighters responded to 205 Boylston St. in Jamaica Plain for what turned into a three-alarm fire, around 11:10 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.