Results tagged “news”

It turns out that Boston's new school zoning proposal was even crappier than previously reported, so it's back to the drawing board, reports the Globe. How crappy? One of the zones, the one that would have included the North End and parts of Roxbury, didn't have enough seats for 616 middle schoolers, an entire school's worth of kids. Meanwhile, the zone that would have stretched from East Boston to Charlestown would have had a middle school that was completely empty. No word on remedial arithmetic classes for school administrators. [Globe]

The Globe looked at Boston School Superintendent Carol R. Johnson's school rezoning plan and discovered—tell us if this surprises you—that poor kids get screwed. The plan was hatched to curtail the ballooning transportation costs that have accrued due to Boston's current sprawling, three zone busing system. Johnson's five zone system, which was designed to keep kids closer to home and save wasteful bus trips, has the consequence of handcuffing kids in the poorest neighborhoods to the weakest schools. [Globe]

Three men were arrested today on charges that they set fire to the predominately black Macedonia Church in Springfield following the election victory of Barack Obama. The incident was a part of a small spate of racially-motivated crimes that broke out in isolated parts of the country on Election Day. The fire did $2 million worth of damage to the church. [Globe]

Our Popular Mayor has been shelved by an impending knee surgery and will be back in Mayoral action by Monday morning, at the earliest, according to the Herald. The arthroscopic surgery, which will take place Friday morning, is required to repair damage to the knee sustained when Menino committed a costly error during the October 2007 Red Sox World Series rally, dropping the World Series trophy.

In an era when everyone bemoans the future of journalism, NECN founder Philip Balboni thinks he has figured out a way to make money from it. According to Forbes, Balboni's new venture, GlobalNews Enterprises (GNE), plans to revive journalism by--wait for it--helping journalists make money. You don't say! With the markets in meltdown, will journalism become the new i-banking for smart young Ivy Leaguers?

-- When you're not getting your news from Bostonist, NewsCred might offer the best articles available on the Web. [Blogstring]

• State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill is of the completely outlandish opinion that the Turnpike Authority should auction off its mysterious money eating machine as a condition of any state bailout. [Globe]
• Possible future Turnpike employees have little regard for probability, hubris. [Herald]
• As if drops in funding and circulation numbers weren't enough, d-bag hackers ran up a $15,000 phone bill at the Duxbury public library. [WBZTV]

Updates on two big stories from yesterday: Senator Kennedy is out of MGH, and the woman found dead in Mission Hill has been identified as a Northeastern student. Kennedy's apparently planning his course of treatment as though it was a legislative bill, grilling experts and seeking out multiple options. There is no indication that he would have to step down as senator, but if it were to happen, there'd be a special election to fill the spot. It's not known whether the slain Northeastern student knew her attacker. The police continue to investigate.

I must be honest, it was a selfish enterprise. While I am born unto living gods, I do miss the comforts to which celestial royalty is accustomed. So I took the initiative (the nanny left the room) and re-assembled a cadre of angels so amazing they will make you weep and scream at the mere sight of them. Their voices have been known to render people speechless with emotion and I heard their dance moves once killed a guy. I also read they topped the 1989 Billboard list for sales (of both albums and singles!) and became the first group since 1984 to have two songs in the top ten simultaneously. Which means odds are that Mother bought and listened to these albums incessantly if my research is correct.*

Dreamboat Baby (pictured, in utero) is the growing child of Tom Brady & Bridget Moynahan. He reads at a collegiate level and his organs are made of gold. He blogs about his life, his physical development, his parents, and their paramours at his blog.

Today's Globe featured a story on the tremendous pull that police and fire unions have on city government. Roderick Fraser Jr. heads the fire department, but Local 718 Ed Kelly has his own ideas for the direction of the fire department.

The aide to Governor Deval Patrick who had been accused of sexually assaulting a teen boy at a Florida resort must be a happy man tonight. Charges against him have been dropped, Casey Ross reports that there wasn't enough evidence to prove the boy's story:

A four-alarm fire broke out at the Mandarin Hotel construction site this morning, and it was so strong that it shut down Boylston Street.

--As if it couldn't get any worse for the MBTA. Hackers have been playing with the Charlie Card. [Boston Herald]

You'd think that Boston College would know to steer clear of controversy after the Condoleezza Rice Fiasco. But Boston College Law School invited Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who won't say that waterboarding is torture, to speak at their commencement, and not everyone is happy about it.

The tag line for Chuck E. Cheese is "Where a kid can be a kid." It should be amended to say, "Where a kid can be a kid, and where an adult can be an asshole."

--Leading off with a happy story: officers in East Boston responded to a car where a woman was in labor. After her water broke in their presence, the police helped deliver the baby, put the baby in a blanket, checked that the baby was breathing properly, and then made sure the family arrived safely at Mass General Hospital. Somebody deserves a raise. [BPD News]

--Five men were arrested for the stabbing death of Terrence Jacobs, 16, last May. Everyone arrested is from Dorchester, except one man from Brockton. [Boston Globe]

--Two people were killed in a brutal murder-suicide in New Bedford yesterday. A man stabbed a woman with a steak knife before stabbing himself to death. The man also went after the woman's roommates, stabbing one and biting another. [Boston Globe]

As more concerns rise about the Big Dig bolts, the Green Line goes on the fritz, and the fact that our tunnels don't have sprinklers, Amtrak is adding its own small voice to the mix.

--The body of a dead woman was found in a car in Malden. Police are treating the case as a homicide but have not yet disclosed many details about what might have happened. The family of a woman who has been missing since February 13, the owner of a Malden hair salon, say they are "99 percent sure" it is her. [Boston Globe, WBZ]

Turns out Green Line service is down between Government Center and Lechmere. Here's the T Alert that was sent out:

--The search for the Northeastern student who had been missing since the day after the Super Bowl has ended. BPD detectives tracked him to Paris, France, and he has now contacted his parents to let him know that he is well. He better bring some baguettes back for his parents and the BPD. [BPD News]

-- Update on the stabbing in Revere. Police have identified the suspect. 23 year-old Cory Roche, of Lynn, allegedly stabbed his mother to death in her home yesterday. Police responding to the incident shot Roche in the torso after he allegedly refused to drop a knife.

A Boston pharmaceutical sales rep who is on this season's cycle of "Big Brother" went to the hospital after having an allergic reaction to "slop."

--Revere police arrived to a crime scene today at 3:15 p.m. They reported a fatal stabbing and a non-fatal shooting. There aren't many details available at this point, but a source tells the Herald that the victim was attacked by her son. [Boston Herald]

--A judge set the bail for Damion Jamaal-Anthony Haley, the man who allegedly fired a gun into a crowd of brawling partygoers at Aria over the weekend, at $1 million. [WBZ]

--Violent revelers turned a party for "Girls Gone Wild" at Aria on Tremont Street into a full-on fracas early this morning: "Two people were shot, a state trooper broke his arm and a Boston police officer was in a cruiser crash." A brawl involving 20 to 35 people swinging champagne bottles broke out, and then one armed man started firing into the crowd. [Boston Herald, BPD News]

--Terry Francona will stay with the Red Sox through 2011. [Boston Globe Extra Bases]

--Some none-too-bright teens robbed a pizza delivery guy of his pie yesterday in Dorchester. After scoring their pizza, they took off, and the BPD had the easiest time ever finding them. For starters, they left footprints in the snow, and they dropped pizza crusts in their building. [BPD News]