-- Both men involved in Monday's road rage incident in Dorchester will face charges. Colum J. Flaherty, 62, of Quincy was involved in a crash on Morrissey Boulevard that led to a traffic jam. According to prosecutors, a third driver, apparently upset at being delayed by the accident, began banging on Flaherty's car before opening a car door and striking him. Flaherty's attorney said his client responded by stabbing the third driver in the arm to defend himself. Flaherty pleaded not guilty to one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in Dorchester Municipal Court. The third driver was identified as a 54-year-old Quincy resident, and may face a charge of assault and battery on a person over 60." [Globe], [Universal Hub]
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According to the Boston Herald, the Globe's 135 Morrissey Boulevard location is contaminated with diesel fuel and lead from a 1988 spill. The Herald cites "documents filed at the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds" as the source for this news, and says state Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Joe Ferson confirmed the spill. Ferson added that a change in what the Morrissey Boulevard site is used for could require unspecified cleanup costs. The Herald breathlessly informs us that the contamination could lower the property value, which implies the sale price could go down. The Globe's owner, the New York Times, is reportedly selling the paper and has generated local interest. Please read the comments at the Herald's website for every obvious joke about this story.
The Globe reported that the Metro was shrinking, and Joe Keohane at Boston Daily noted that the Globe got details wrong. Then the Metro trumped that little blunder by reporting that the Globe was planning "hundreds" of layoffs and would raise the price of the paper to 75 cents.
--On Saturday, some alleged whack-job trying to get a piece of Star Simpson glory told an AirTran employee at Logan Airport, "I'm with al-Qaeda. I'm with them and I'm here to blow up things." Hardy har. Those words earned 27-year-old Ermiyas Asfaw, from DC, a one-way trip to jail. Attention, world: You may be able to do whatever you want in other cities, but Boston is sensitive. We may not agree with their hypersensitivity, but...
The Red Sox have us all dreaming. Dreaming of warmer weather. Dreaming of baseball. Dreaming of the Fall Classic. We're just a week and a half away from the first matchup of the spring training opening match up – so there is a lot of time to consume with daydreaming about baseball. Because we don't have enough vacation time to spend the entire spring training season in Ft. Meyers we'll have to rely on...
Media man Rupert Murdoch is ruffling some feathers here in Boston as a Globe columnist reported today that he’s looking to print the ever-classy NY Post here in Massachusetts. Why bother printing up here in Boston, you ask? Murdoch owned the Herald until 1994 when he was forced to sell the paper after federal law said he couldn’t own two media outlets in one market. He sold it to Pat Purcell, who had been running the Herald for the previous 10 years for him and continues in that roll now as owner of Herald Media, Inc. Although Purcell and Murdoch were once on the same team, it looks like Murdoch is looking to take his new business over to Morrissey Boulevard. He’s in negotiations to have the Boston Globe start printing 30,000-40,000 copies a day of the Post and they’ll be distributed using the Globe delivery service.