The special election to replace John Tobin as Boston’s District 6 City Councilor on November 16 will include Matt O’Malley and Jim Hennigan. In Tuesday's preliminary special election, O'Malley was the clear winner by being selected on more than 50% of ballots cast. O'Malley got over 3,700 votes and won West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Hennigan reached his goal of at least 2,000 votes. [Wicked Local Roslindale]
1
more ›
more ›
Results tagged “johntobin”
- Let's hear it for global warming! Woo-hoo! [WHDH]
- Yes, it's hot. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is reminding citizens how to beat the heat. [WCVB]
- Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray is at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester possibly because of the summer heat. [MyFoxBoston.com]
- Bostonist found people who enjoy the heat: Owners of businesses who depend on tourism. [Cape Cod Times]
- The Boston area, including Cambridge and Quincy, is the eighth-most congested traffic region in the country. Boston has ranked eight for three years straight. [Boston Business Journal]
- After two students were expelled for bullying a South Hadley High School freshman, the town is developing an anti-bullying task force to find something good in the midst of a tragedy. [WCVB]
We're not shy about expressing our gawking admiration for Mission of Burma, the best rock band ever to come from Boston, and we were geeked to see that city councilor John Tobin feels the same way. In recognition of the release of The Sound the Speed the Light, the band's fifth studio recording, Tobin passed a resolution naming October 4, 2009 Mission of Burma Day in the city of Boston. See the declaration above and bust out your copy of Vs. this Sunday morning. Or, better yet, hoof it across the river to Cambridge, where the band will be playing a free show at MIT.
--So NOW Sal DiMasi wants to strike a deal on gambling? Guess we've learned one thing during the recent DiMasi stories. What happens in the State House stays in the State House. [Boston Herald]
Well, City Councilor John Tobin has a solution for low voter turnout, and it's not a MoFee Style Public Kvetch-Fest. If Mayor Tom Menino thought he didn't like the idea of Kvetch-Fest 2008, he must have blown his stack when he heard what Councilor Tobin proposed.
Councilor John Tobin thinks that Dominic Luberto, the man whose "Christmas Castle" bathes Jamaica Plain in holiday light, is courting disaster.
Maureen Feeney (Dorchester) has been elected the first female Boston City Council president in 30 years. She gained more support from other councilors than incumbent and longtime president Michael Flaherty (at large) and John Tobin (JP, West Roxbury). Aside from the great news that a woman is in charge after way too long, the other news is the fallout from Flaherty's defeat. The Globe repeats that he's still aiming for the mayor's office. Joe...
Totally ready to chalk it up to yet another hare-brained scheme by Menino, we read on and found out that the Walk of Fame idea was presented by one of our favorite city councilors, John Tobin. In even more shocking news Bostonist is on the same page as Globe columnist Brian McGrory. The proposed Walk of Fame, an idea which St. Louis, Mo., Lansing, Mich., and Toronto, Canada among others have already stolen, would spice up the already shimmering sidewalks in the Theatre District. You’ve noticed too that the sidewalks in the Theatre District on Washington St. heading into Downtown Crossing have a bit of glitter mixed in, right? The glitz is especially noticeable on sunny afternoons.
Bostonist, being a luddite at heart, has long been a champion of minor-league baseball: It's an affordable way to get a close-up taste of the game without all the booming sound effects, incredibly long between-inning delays for TV advertising, and capricious general managers players. But we're a little dubious about Boston City Councillor John Tobin's idea of bringing a minor-league team from the independent Can-Am League to town. As it is, there's a ton of teams in the area: In addition to the four Can-Am teams listed in the Globe's story today, we have the Lowell Spinners to the north and the Pawtucket Red Sox to the south. Bostonist has the impression (although we can find no hard numbers) that many of the people who fill Fenway's seats all summer are coming from the suburbs, and we wonder whether they would bother driving into the city to see the same level of baseball they could get closer to home. Then again, the Globe quotes a guy from Sharon as saying he'd bring his kids to minor-league games in Boston - never mind that Brockton and Pawtucket are closer to Sharon than Boston is. Of course, that might just prove that it's hard to publicize a minor-league team, which also would spell trouble for Tobin's idea. None of this is to say that it wouldn't be cool to have another team in Boston - the more baseball, the better, we think. But maybe the Councillor isn't aiming high enough: After all, Boston used to have two major league teams, and at least two people have lately floated the idea that we should do it again.
For a while Bostonist had been hoping that El Oriental de Cuba in JP would be open a bit later. After downing some pints at Behan’s a walk over to El Oriental for some mashed plantains is much better than that foreman grilled cheese we end up making after bars close. Alas, they were only open on weekends until 10 p.m. Until yesterday that is, when El Oriental was firebombed overnight. Bostonist loves ethnic food and for Cuban food in Boston this little spot - located "the other way" down Centre St., away from the cute little shops that define the increasingly gentrified JP - can’t be beat. The Boston Globe recounted statements from Maura A. Hennigan, who heard the Molatov cocktail-like fire starter had been tossed through the window of El Oriental around 3:30 a.m. This unexpected arson has taken the neighborhood by surprise and left the Cuban community in Jamaica Plain distraught, waiting for the restaurant to rebuild. Nobel Garcia pledged to the community and reporters that he would reopen the restaurant he’s owned for the last 6 years. Garcia said he had no enemies and didn’t know who could have done it. The food is great, the space itself left a little something to be desired, but nothing to firebomb over.
In his 12 years of service to the people of Boston, Mayor Tom Menino has made technological advancement a cornerstone of his administration. Under his leadership Boston became the first U.S. city to completely wire every public classroom, and was one of the first to introduce free internet access in public libraries. On May 19th, Menino and City Councilor John Tobin are leading a public summit to:
According to the Globe today, Boston's got itself it a coyote problem. Poor little Maggie, an 18 pound West Higland terrier was killed in her Jamaica Plain back yard. Bostonist often longs for a four-legged friend, but the thought of walking it overwhelms us, so we can't even fathom having to protect it from wild animals. According to Animal Control, coyotes are protected in the state, so we're stuck with the pesky critters. Unless...
« Previous
1
Next »