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By adamg - 8/28/24 - 10:59 pm
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly Budd today swore in Maura Looney as the SJC's Clerk for the Commonwealth, replacing Francis Kenneally, who was appointed a judge in the district-court system earlier this year. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/24 - 9:08 pm
Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.
By adamg - 8/18/24 - 5:09 pm
For the past couple of days, at-large Councilor Henry Santana has been listing interesting and fun stuff to do in Downtown Crossing and across Tremont on Boston Common. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/24 - 1:20 pm
After a man was stabbed in Downtown Crossing yesterday, City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) called on the city to end all organized events on the Common: Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/24 - 2:07 pm
The Boston City Council will consider a proposal by Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester) to deal with the issue of big-ass SUVs making it harder for people with driveways to see oncoming traffic as they pull out by letting homeowners create yellow-paint no-parking areas 18 inches on either side of their driveways - and then calling for $25 fines for people who disregard those zones. Read more.
By adamg - 8/7/24 - 12:12 am
A federal appeals court has tossed a lawsuit by Salem-based Satanists over the way the Boston City Council has local clergy members start its weekly meetings with an invocation - and over the way the city fought the group's efforts to make then Councilor Michelle Wu show up for a deposition way up on the North Shore on the day of the election in which she was running for mayor. Read more.
By adamg - 8/6/24 - 11:56 am
MIT might have handled anti-Zionist protests on campus differently, but nothing the school did was designed to torment its Jewish students and professors - and in fact, the school took steps, if possibly not enough, to minimize hateful acts and rants against them - a federal judge ruled last week in dismissing a lawsuit by students and a pro-Israel group from California alleging MIT had helped turn itself into an antisemitic cauldron. Read more.
By Frelmont - 7/25/24 - 8:30 pm
Though I’ve spent most of my adult life in “Greater Boston” but I don’t feel like I know the granular, “Inside Baseball” of what makes Boston tick. I’ve read ‘Common Ground’ and ‘The Last Hurrah and some basic history, but what are the authoritative books that say who’s who and how things really are? Like what’s the story with the BRA? Is there an Encyclopedia Bostonia? What families have power that you don’t read about in the papers? What are politicians’ long term aims?
By adamg - 7/22/24 - 8:31 pm
The Globe breaks the news: Mayor Wu is pregnant, expects to have her third child in January.
By adamg - 7/21/24 - 6:17 pm
US Rep Ayanna Pressley (D-7th) and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren pretty immediately endorsed Kamala Harris for president today: Read more.
By adamg - 7/19/24 - 11:43 am
Now that he has a North End pied a terre, Josh Kraft is sounding more and more like he'll run for mayor against Michelle Wu next year, CommonWealth Beacon reports. Oh, not publicly yet, but CommonWealth Beacon reports Kraft started dishing on the campaign he'll launch this fall to a friend at a Back Bay coffeehouse - where somebody else sitting nearby took it all in and then re-dished to the site.
By adamg - 7/15/24 - 10:15 am
A new group called Protect the Lincoln Forest launched itself early this morning when a member climbed up a tree on a quarter-acre site off Rte. 2 and created a "tree-sit" to protest an agreement between Cambridge and a Texas pipeline company to cut down at least 24 trees on a lot meant to protect a major Cambridge reservoir - so the company can park trucks and equipment there while it replaces a pipeline facility next door. Read more.
By adamg - 7/12/24 - 10:17 am
A proposal to begin charging drivers a fee to come into downtown Boston will remain in committee as its sponsors consider what are turning out to be some possibly complex issues. Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/24 - 4:39 pm
The Boston City Council today agreed to look at using rodent birth-control pellets to try to control the city's burgeoning supply of rats, by building on a pilot started in Jamaica Plain last year that one councilor said had meant an 80% reduction in the gnawing, long-tailed vermin. Read more.
By adamg - 7/8/24 - 8:25 pm
CommonWealth Beacon reports the former hizzoner and his long-time girlfriend, Lorrie Higgins, quietly got married on a Caribbean trip in March.
Candidate for court clerk job appears at rally on one side of MBTA zoning issue now before the court
By adamg - 6/20/24 - 11:15 am
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