The president yesterday signed one of his executive orders, this time to ban transgender athletes. Our Charlie Baker, now head of the NCAA, immediately complied, expressing gratitude for "a clear, national standard" he can get behind. Read more
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.
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 - 2/4/25 - 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.
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 - 1/31/25 - 3:49 pm
From Gov. Healey on impending tariffs on stuff imported from Canada, Mexico and China: Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 3:10 pm
CommonWealth Beacon reports (second item) that Team Kraft has been approaching former Marty Walsh apparatchiks about working on his campaign. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 9:11 am
The Dorchester Reporter introduces us to the people who have come a step closer to running for one of the four at-large seats on the City Council this fall, by filing paperwork with the state.
By adamg - 1/30/25 - 2:56 pm
Jaha "Jay" Hughes of Hyde Park this week filed paperwork with the state that will let him begin raising funds to run for mayor this fall against incumbent Michelle Wu and, likely, Josh Kraft. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 12:16 pm
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University is going down without a fight: It's "replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites. "
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 10:27 pm
Boston.com posts a copy of the genial invite from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, who is now heavily invested in sniffing out immigrants under all the beds now that he can no longer continue his crusade against Hunter Biden, given Biden's pardon and the fact that Comer's star witness against him has pleaded guilty to making up shit about the Bidens (and also evading taxes). Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 6:54 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports Josh Kraft has filed papers with the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, which will let him begin to raise money to run for mayor in the fall elections.
By adamg - 1/24/25 - 2:36 pm
The Boston Landmarks Commission has officially designated City Hall as a landmark building. Read more.
By adamg - 1/20/25 - 11:05 pm
Among the flurry of executive orders issued by the new president today is one that declares people born on American soil are no longer automatically US citizens, because he says so. Read more.
By adamg - 1/15/25 - 2:48 pm
The City Council today unanimously approved a $110-million fund to help finance new housing in the city through low-cost loans for new housing that meets certain city criteria for affordable units, the use of minority- and women-owned subcontractors and climate resiliency. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 10:11 am
Mayor Wu said today she'll ask the City Council to ask the state Legislature to increase commercial tax rates over a three-year-period to help ease the tax burden on homeowners - and hopes that now that homeowners have actually gotten their tax bills, state Sen. Nick Collins of South Boston might change his mind about letting his constituents get walloped. Read more.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 9:28 am
The Herald reports Councilor Ed Flynn has concluded he can't raise enough money to take on incumbent Michelle Wu, so will instead run for re-election this year.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 11:17 am
In a defeat for Milton and other communities aghast at the idea of the teeming masses moving in, the Supreme Judicial Court today ruled a state regulation that requires towns served by the MBTA to add at least one zone that theoretically could support more housing is entirely constitutional - and that the state can even sue towns that resist. Read more.
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