Boston has a new fire boat to finally replace the current 40-year old ship used in the harbor. The ship is named for 19th Century chief John S. Dramell and cost $4.2 million. The ship is faster, capable of going 43 miles per hour, and has a main gun that can pump 6,000 gallons per minute.
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Mike Dowling seems okay to Bostonist. He's honest, and there's no reason for us to doubt him. He produced a truly great tweet. He wrote: "Patriots just try to clarify Tom Brady's quote ",w/ 4 O'clock start, their is plenty of time for fans to start drinking","he meant hydrate"." Look, this is not a big deal. Football fans drink before games. Brady knows this. He's joking, and we assume this is part of a longer exchange that led up to what Brady said. But, the excuse the Patriots gave Dowling is so dumb it's insulting. Hydrate? Really? Nobody believes that.
Eric Fehrnstorm's @CrazyKhazei account hijinks have now backfired entirely. Fehrnstrom, Mitt Romney's former communications director and current presidential campaign adviser and adviser to Senator Scott Brown, used the account to mock CityYear founder Alan Khazei's run for Senate. Of course, Fehrnstrom exposed himself as the tweeter when he used his own Twitter account, @EricFehrn, to post a "CrazyKhazei" type tweet regarding Khazei's charity and potentially improper payments to and from it.
Judging from Channel 5's tweets on thebostonchannel.com, On The Record could be appointment television this Sunday at 11 a.m. The Massachusetts Senate election for the seat held by Scott Brown is a hot topic on the show. Setti Warren reportedly told Janet Wu that President Obama shouldn't go on his vacation to Martha's Vineyard. Mary Anne Marsh reportedly said that Elizabeth Warren is running for Democratic nomination for the US Senate.
Just days after the FBI launched its latest plan to capture James "Whitey" Bulger, the fugitive gangster was arrested without incident in Santa Monica, California. The arrest resulted from the FBI's TV ad campaign that started this week. His companion Catherine Greig, who figured prominently in the ads, was arrested with Bulger.
Congressman Michael Capuano is defending Congressman Anthony Weiner by saying he hasn't broken the law or violated his oath of office in his Facebook sex scandal. According to a tweet from Janet Wu of WCVB, Capuano didn't call for his resignation. According to Wu, Capuano and Weiner were rommates in Washington, D.C. for 12 years.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is the commencement speaker at Babson College this year. Thre graduation ceremony is set for May 14 in Wellesley. Stone dropped out of Northeastern and UMass Boston. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The Governor's Council approved our new Parole Board members. UMass Amherst's Faculty Senate votes next week on a measure to make the campus smoke free in 2013. Five Parole Board members resigned in January after a paroled felon killed Woburn police officer Jack Maguire. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Remember that soccer team John Henry bought? We forgot about it, honestly. Henry is doing everything he can to win over Liverpool fans. He attended games at the Kop, Liverpool's home pitch and even unleashed wife Linda Pizzuti on their vocal fans.
There's a gigantic raccoon loose in the South End. Governor Deval Patrick revealed in his new book he considered resigning early in his first term over his wife's depression. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Chicagoist described blizzard-like conditions that shut down Lake Shore Drive. Shanghaiist focused on microblogging. DCist experienced Daniel Snyder being Daniel Snyder. Here in Boston, roofs kept collapsing. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
The latest in snow news: Ice dams, parking woes, and sidewalks. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Civil unrest in the streets of Egypt's major cities is causing concern among approximately 4,000 Bostonians from Egypt. Egypt blocked the Internet, specifically Facebook and Twitter, from citizens.
Beacon Hill's legislative Twitter ban might be a thing of the past. The Herald reported that Twitter was blocked on legislator's office computers due to virus threats, and now House Speaker Robert DeLeo lans to lift the ban. The blocking of a social media tool caused a lot of chatter. Here's a tweet from Rep. Dan Winslow of Wrentham tweeted "Massachusetts is becoming the North Korea of the United States." Senator Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth) said "There should be more sites that are blocked.".
Lawmakers and staffers on Beacon Hill are banned from using Twitter on their office computers. The Herald reported that a spokesman for Senate President Therese Murray said there is a threat from viruses that prompted the Legislative Information Services to block it.
You can see Rajon Rondo's naked head during Wednesday's Celtics-Cavs contest.
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The Massachusetts gubernatorial race will be dragged back into the 21st Century today, after a rapid decline into the campaign gutter, thanks to a high-tech, live-streamed debate sponsored by Boston Herald, Emerson College, and Fox25. The “Race for Governor 2010" forum runs from noon until 1 p.m at Emerson College’s Semel Theater. Emerson grad Maria Stephanos (Fox25) will moderate.
According to Boston Restaurant Talk, Comella's was voted to have the best meatballs in Boston in a Twitter poll. Comella's took 64% of the votes. Other top meatballers included Cardullo's in Cambridge, Craigie on Main in Cambridge, Porcini's in Watertown and Tavolo in Dorchester. Tweeting, of course, is good for business and Boston needs more of it.
Boston finished 13th in a second-quarter report on the top business tweeting cities in the U.S. New York is the business tweeting city, followed by San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Sacramento. And how is Vegas 7th? Don't their tweets stay in Vegas?
Business is happening all over Boston:
When Senator Scott Brown wrote an Op-Ed for the Wall St. Journal regarding Iran's nuclear program last week, he promoted it on his popular Twitter account.
The latest on Tom Brady's two-car accident Thursday morning near his Back Bay home at Commonwealth Avenue and Gloucester Street:
We know that Richard Davey and his crew at the MBTA just met the business end of the Twitter nation thanks to an alert rider's photo of a man exposing himself on the Red line. The T is planning to incorporate social media tools into its crime-fighting arsenal. We know the idea of the T having an arsenal of any kind is amusing, to say the least. You know what we meant.
New York City uses the slogan "If you see something, say something." In Boston, perhaps the MBTA would call it "See it & Tweet it" and it will catch on in the effort to bring the seemingly endless amount of T pervs - technical term - to justice. T customers seem more technologically aware than the T. Surprised?
- Skies in New England could be illuminated by northern lights the next two nights. [Boston Globe]
- Massachusetts will spray in 27 different communities to fight possible EEE exposure. [WBZ]
Bostonist knows of at least two things that make people go crazy: Sharks (scary!) and condoms (also scary, somehow!). Sharks sometimes eat people, which is bad. We can't always explain what it is about condoms that bothers some people so much (other than latex, but there's a solution for that).
Whatever Twitter says is always true, even if it's sad (and even if retweeting it earns us more sadness). So it seems that Razzy's, everyone's favorite Somerville dive bar (Sligo is just too much dive and too little free popcorn, not to mention the lack of karaoke), is closing up shop soon, possibly due to a landlord dispute. Viking funeral for the bar seems to confirm the news, as does BostonTweet, so it must be true. Right? [TWITTER]
-- When life gives you tainted water, make coffee mugs. [Zazzle via Universal Hub]