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 - Mon, 01/27/2025 - 10:39am
Reports coming in from all over (Roslindale, Jamaica Plain, the rest of the Boston area and southern New Hampshire) of some shaking around 10:25 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/24/2025 - 11:02am
The Boston Licensing Board decided yesterday to re-open the application period for the 12 "unrestricted" all-alcohol licenses the state granted the city last year - which would immediately become worth $600,000 or more - with board members saying they want to see more applications from neighborhoods beyond the North End or the Seaport. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 01/21/2025 - 4:29pm
By adamg - Mon, 01/20/2025 - 12:37pm
Lawyers for Civil Rights today launched its Immigrant Defense Hotline at 617-988-0606 to help people "facing imminent threats related to immigration enforcement, such as immigration raids or mass deportations." Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 01/19/2025 - 5:10pm
The portents-full view from the GOES-East satellite shortly before 5 p.m.
By adamg - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 4:59pm
Mayor Wu's office today announced a $35-million grant from the soon-to-be-decimated Environmental Protection Agency that will let BPS buy 125 30-sat battery-powered school buses. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 01/16/2025 - 12:55pm
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) said yesterday the city should expand its side-street speed-hump program to the city's main thoroughfares - and lower the citywide speed limit - to reduce the number of pedestrians sent to the grave by impatient speeders. Read more.
By adamg - Wed, 01/15/2025 - 2:48pm
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 - Tue, 01/14/2025 - 9:10am
Mayor Wu yesterday had her third child - Mira Wu Pewarski, 8lbs, 4oz. and 20 inches.
By adamg - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 2:19pm
The Boston City Council on Wednesday will consider a request from Councilor Sharon Durkan to look at a "sugar-sweetened beverage tax" as a way to curb various health woes - in large part by raising money that could be used to fight scourges such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:11am
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 - Sun, 01/12/2025 - 9:28am
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 - Wed, 01/08/2025 - 2:27pm
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/06/2025 - 12:15pm
John W. Mackey considers the meaning of the map Osgood Carleton created in 1795 for the town of Boston's selectmen that measures seven feet by six and a half feet. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 01/05/2025 - 12:30pm
A guy who goes by Terrible Ideas is on a quest to find the farthest point from Boston where he can stand and still see the city. In this video, he shows us his four, count 'em, four, treks to the top of Mt. Kearsarge, up past Concord, NH, to see if he can spot our fair Hub. Foiled by an incoming storm and haze, he fails on the first three tries, but finally, he succeeds at sunrise and gets to see, if barely, the taller buildings downtown and in the Back Bay.
H/t Angry Dan.
By adamg - Sun, 01/05/2025 - 12:01pm
Over the last couple of days, people all over the city have gotten texts, allegedly from "the city of Boston," that they have a small unpaid "parking invoice" and that unless they go to the link in the text they will be charged "a late fees of 35$." Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 01/02/2025 - 10:36am
Shana Cottone, fired as a Boston Police sergeant in 2023, this week sued to get her job back, charging she was terminated as retaliation for exercising her First Amendment religious and free-speech rights by refusing Covid-19 shots and then organizing protests against city Covid-19 policies, which included early morning, bullhorn-enhanced protests outside Mayor Wu's Roslindale home and the swarming of two Boston pizzerias by people who refused to show proof of vaccination. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/29/2024 - 9:52am
J.L. Bell, who studies and writes about pre-Revolutionary New England, discusses a Louisiana law (currently stayed during a lawsuit) that requires public schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments - and a "context statement" that refers to the 17th-century New England Primer, a reader for young students, as proof Christianity has always been a part of American public education. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 12/27/2024 - 2:32pm
City officials took a quick bow today in announcing the news that the 24 murders recorded in Boston so far this year are the lowest homicide numbers in the city dating to 1957 and that shootings and other gun crimes are also far lower than even just a few years ago. Read more.
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