Results tagged “citizensbank”

• Six months after he survived being held hostage by Somali pirates, Captain Richard Phillips said he's considering a new career. [AP via Google]

• Michael Flaherty and Tom Menino split two Democratic Committee ward votes last night. [UniversalHub]

• Bay State lawmakers want to require students to remain in school until age 18 in order to cut the dropout rate. [Boston Globe]

• Both candidates appeared on WCVB last night. Tom Menino called the Flaherty/Yoon "ticket" as “jobs for votes," and Flaherty didn't like it. [Boston Herald]

• More budget cuts are looming as Governor Deval Patrick announced that September revenues were $243 million short of expectations. [Boston Globe]

--First Night pictures are up! What you see above from Flickr user post406 is only a taste of the pictures you can find that are tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Thanks for adding your photos!

--The BPD is starting yet another crime-stopping program that is sure to raise eyebrows. In this case, police will search bedrooms of teenagers suspected of having guns without a warrant. Regarding the alarming "without a warrant" part, the BPD plans to ask the parent for permission first. The rationale for this is that some parents may know their kids have guns, but they don't know what to do about it. Commish Ed Davis and DA...

--Some hot dogs are just too hot to handle, at least in Franklin. Two women, Stacey Bower and Sonjalea Katz, were selling "hottie dogs," and the town commissioner stopped it because they didn't have the right permit. The Milford Daily News has a picture of Katz and Bower. Their food van is indeed named "hottie dogs," and they are wearing tank tops, but we can't for the life of us understand what is so threatening...

How do you take Fine Art and make it hip for the kids? A DJ, Live Music, or Free Food? If you filled in the oval next to "D – All of the above" you'd be spot on for the effort the Museum of Fine Arts is putting on this Thursday, September 28 - College Night. If you can't scrounge up a student ID there's always Wednesday night entry without admission fee thanks to the Citizens Bank Foundation.

While Monday is the holiday, Sunday is the actual birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Bostonist realizes we don't really need a Boston connection to talk about him, what with the effect he had on the national stage (including the Commonwealth, of course), but it always bears mentioning that he did a Ph.D. at Boston University, which is cool (as is the memorial statue dedicated to him at BU, shown at right - it has...