Rev. Laura Everett has been following and writing about women's sports in Boston for quite awhile. Today, she writes about the disaster that was the formal naming and introduction of the Boston professional women's soccer team, in particular the way the team managed to insult men, transgender people and past and present women's pro teams in Boston. Read more.

The State House News Service reports Mayor Wu is continuing to push for the state Senate to approve a measure that would let city assessors temporarily increase the total amount they can level in taxes on commercial property as a way to help reduce impending increases on residential property. Read more.

A Boston ride-share driver will remain behind bars as a possible threat to society as he awaits trial on charges he raped at least eight women passengers over several years, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday. Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board says it will be accepting applications through Dec. 6 for the 66 new "neighborhood" restaurant liquor licenses and the 4 new anywhere licenses it now has the authority to issue over the coming year. Read more.

A New Jersey man who quit a job with Boston-based DraftKings to move to Los Angeles for a job with one of its online-betting archrivals, only to get sued by his former employers under the Massachusetts non-compete law, will have to make his case under Massachusetts law rather than California law, a federal court ruled yesterday. Read more.

Mayor Wu today announced she's appointed Kairos Shen, current real-estate development professor at MIT and a former top planner at the one-time Boston Redevelopment Authority, to lead the new Boston Planning Department with current planning head Arthur Jemison heading back to Detroit. Read more.

Gov. Healey last week signed a bill giving Boston 225 new liquor licenses, most to be doled out to restaurants in 13 specific Zip codes - and at prices nowhere near the $600,000 or more that most current licenses go for on the open market. Read more.

The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center took a look at IRS and Census data through 2023 and found that not only did the Massachusetts population increase - even if just very, very slightly - between 2022 and 2023, most of the people who did leave the state were young people and families making under $200,000. The center says this has policy implications - such as tamping down talk of requiring tax breaks to keep the state deflating like a punctured tire (although the center did note the data don't reflect the impact of the rich-people tax).

The Boston Business Journal reports the Rhode Island-based Hasbro is eyeing possible space in downtown Boston for a new corporate HQ. With Lego blocking out space for its new US headquarters in the Back Bay, could Boston be on the verge of becoming the Fun Hub?

Politico reports a group of "veterans across Massachusetts" has started work to convince City Councilor Ed Flynn, and a Navy vet himself, to run for mayor next year. It has an official PR spokesman, who now has his own PR firm but who, Politico notes, is "an alum" of Regan Communications, which is run, of course, by George Regan, who wants to "save our city" from those dreaded left-wingers like Michelle Wu.