Entries from Bostonist tagged with 'foreclosures'
April 13, 2008
--150 members of Anonymous, the group that wears Guy Fawkes masks and opposes Scientology, was back yesterday to protest. [Boston Herald] --Welcome back, Army Reserve's 719th Movement Control Battalion! [Boston Globe, WCVB] --The Herald is launching a series on the mortgage mess. Today it focuses on an allegedly shady man, Dwight Jenkins, who was taking investors money in the hopes that fixer-uppers would be profitable when "flipped." [Background from Boston Herald, Jenkins profile from Boston......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"February 27, 2008
--Someone found violent messages in women's bathrooms, along with the date of February 28 (tomorrow), at Bridgewater State. Given recent violent incidents on college campuses nationwide, the school boosted security. Police are offering a $500 reward to find out who did it. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --Meanwhile, someone left a note in a bathroom at Framingham State this afternoon, leading to an evacuation. [WBZ] --57 Boston bars have been given more time to install......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"February 19, 2008
--Hendry Street isn't the only place suffering from the home-foreclosure crisis. In fact, so many areas are suffering that real estate agents are taking possible buyers on bus tours of other people's property. As if someone losing a home doesn't have enough misery, now they have to have complete strangers tramping about on the front yard. [Boston Globe] --A group of mayors, including Mayor Menino, are banding together with labor union reps in support of......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"February 10, 2008
--A truck making an illegal left turn near the BU East Green Line Stop hit a Green Line train yesterday morning. One Green Line passenger went to the hospital, and the truck driver has a date with the courts. [Boston Globe] --Speaking of bad drivers, some people never learn. [Boston Globe] --Laura Crimaldi into how the mortgage mess has hit the city, particularly Dorchester, where 33 percent of the city's foreclosures happened. [Boston Herald]......
Continue Reading "Bite Size News"January 19, 2008
-- Call him Governor Patrick-agressive. Deval Patrick unveiled his 2009 budget, and it had a little surprise. $300 million of revenue is set to come from taxes on three casinos that do not yet exist. Patrick wants to license casino gambling in Massachusetts but faces heavy opposition in the legislature. It's a battle he has already won in his own mind. Nearly half -- $124 million -- of the speculative funds will shore up a......
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