Roving UHub photographer APB shows us the scene on Boylston Street outside the Prudential Center Tesla showroom this morning. Read more.
French Toast Alert Level: 1 Slice / Low. Explanation.
By adamg - 03/22/2025 - 3:23pm
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By adamg - 03/22/2025 - 3:10pm
RoadTrip NewEngland turned out of Legacy Place in Dedham this morning and headed past the protest outside the Tesla showroom and service center.
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Tesla Takedown just keeps growing in Dedham.
By adamg - 03/22/2025 - 10:25am
The federal appeals court in Boston yesterday ordered what's left of the federal Department of Education to keep paying out teacher-training grants the department wants to rescind as too woke for school despite having been approved by Congress - and rejected a Musk-administration claim that courts shouldn't even be reviewing the matter to begin with. Read more.
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By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 11:09pm
Hilton's Tent City, 565 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, announced today it's closing forever on April 30, after some 77 years in business.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 2:34pm
The Crimson reports Councilor Paul Toner was charged with paying for sex at a hearing today on that high-priced brothel ring.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 2:31pm
Handmaid asks: Does anyone know where I can buy Montelobos Espadín Mezcal locally?
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 2:08pm
Two brothers from the rural hamlet of Harvard and three teens were scheduled for arraignment today on charges they stomped a teenager badly enough at North Station after the St. Patrick's parade Sunday that he required hospitalization. Read more.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 1:12pm
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old they say fired several shots in the area of Harrison Avenue and Dudley Street shortly before 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 11:44am
A Nashua, NH man was arrested moments after he allegedly sold two handguns and a rifle to an informant working with ATF in a parking lot just over the state line in Pepperell yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 10:57am
The insurance company for the owners of the Jacob Wirth restaurant on Stuart Street this week sued three wood-refinishing companies it alleges caused a four-alarm fire through negligence last June 24 - just as renovations were nearing completion. Read more.
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 10:16am
By adamg - 03/21/2025 - 9:48am
GBH reports state regulators have given their OK to plans for a $1.7-billion, 14-story, 320-bed cancer hospital on land now occupied by the Joslin Diabetes Center. Read more.
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 1:57pm
Local 718 of the International Association of Firefighters yesterday filed a public-records lawsuit against Boston, demanding the city hand over copies of all the public records requests made by local online commentator Chip Goines over the past three years. Read more.
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 1:29pm
Boston Police responded to Howland Street between Elm Hill and Humboldt avenues on reports of gunfire around 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 1:21pm
Police responded to an apartment building on Blue Hill Avenue near Wilcock Street yesterday afternoon, where a man was duct-taped and zip-tied by two men with a knife posing as workmen who then robbed his apartment. Read more.
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 10:48am
ESPN reports that Bill Chisholm, managing partner at Symphony Technology Group, a San Francisco private-equity firm, is buying the Celtics from the Grousbecks for $6.1 billion, the most ever paid for a North American sports franchise. When do we begin the countdown for him demanding a new arena?
Boston councilor asks for hearing on role of AI in city government - by reading speech written by AI
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 10:41am
As she asked her colleagues yesterday to approve a hearing on the role of artificial intelligence in municipal government, Councilor Sharon Durkan (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) occasionally stumbled over her words. Read more.
By adamg - 03/20/2025 - 9:25am
A pair of real-estate investment firms say they will soon file plans for a 15-story, 438-room hotel next to the existing Aloft and Element hotels on D Street, across from the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Read more.
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 8:05pm
Mayor Wu tonight delivered a state of the city address that was equal parts warning to the current regime to back off and highlights of more traditional mayoral achievements - from 15,000 filled potholes to a new loan program to let households team up to buy multi-family homes. Read more.
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 7:12pm
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 5:30pm
The Boston City Council today agreed to consider how to recruit and train federal workers "who have recently fallen victim to draconian, mass layoffs without cause" for at least some of the 2,000 positions the city now has open. Read more.
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 3:58pm
The Boston City Council today almost approved a $350,000 "arts and parks" grant from the Red Sox Foundation intended largely to benefit the Fenway neighborhood as thanks for putting up with all those Sox games and concerts, but put off any vote after a discussion that ended with one councilor bringing up rich people on Beacon Hill and the White Stadium controversy, and another councilor complaining about the crappy, wilting, lopsided Christmas tree the city put up in Nubian Square this past Christmas. Read more.
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 2:52pm
The City Council agreed today to consider whether moves to make Tremont Street safer for pedestrians and bicyclists in recent years are costing business owners untold thousands in lost sales and making it harder for first responders to get to emergencies. Read more.
By adamg - 03/19/2025 - 1:17pm
The City Council today agreed to study a recommendation by the Boston Landmarks Commission to declare the Fox house, 318 Metropolitan Ave. in Roslindale, as a landmark.
