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Some City Councilors have complained about the mayor's blame game regarding the snowstorm, but one city councilor might be contributing to the problem. WBZ sent cameras to Chuck Turner's house in Roxbury, where his sidewalk wasn't shoveled.
--A fire happened at Fenway Park this morning while construction workers were removing a temporary luxury suite. The fire was quickly put out, and no one was hurt. [WBZ] --A cousin of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley died Friday night in a fire in her Hyannis home. [Boston Globe] --The Air Force has found that Cape Wind wouldn't impact one of its radar stations. In an impressive NIMBY effort, Representative William Delahunt wanted to...
On the same day that the Herald runs a story about a real problem involving rising violence in the school system, readers also get to hear more griping about a fake problem – ice-cream men who are too noisy. Michele McPhee quotes one woman as saying, "You talk about road rage. I have ice cream truck rage.” She then added, “You think it’s a silly thing, loud ice cream truck music, until you live it."...
Anytime we hear about diplomats we always think about those episodes of Law & Order where they get away with crimes or that extra special perk they've got that allows them to park illegally outside of the UN without getting parking tickets or towed. Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross are often issued diplomatic visas and passports from their home countries. Boston City Councilors are not. Councilor Michael Ross has been banking...
The Globe graphic looked oddly familiar. The triangulation of gunshot audio is a comfortable concept, and not some wacky space-age technology we'd never heard about. Where do we turn? Google. We found today's report along with one from the Globe dated February 24, 2006. To give them credit the Globe did modify the graphic from last year, the info is a little different and reporting is largely new info.
The little Cuban place that could is still poised to make a come back. City Councilors Hennigan and Tobin were on the scene in July after El Oriental on Centre St. in Jamaica Plain had apparently been firebombed. Bostonist has walked by longingly these past few months waiting for the place to be rebuilt. An outpouring of support from the local community through cards posted to the plywood covering the exterior to donations made at a benefit concert will help to reopen one of our favorite Cuban restaurants.