South End gentrification, then and now

Demonstrators outside BRA office in the South End in 1968
By adamg - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 2:17pm

On April 25, 1968, South End residents held sit-in at what was then a Boston Redevelopment Authority office in an old fire house on Warren Avenue in the South End, to protest the authority's large-scale South End urban-renewal plans that would force thousands of residents to move.

The former fire house (on the right) and the neighboring building with one of the area's wholesale florists, remain to this day, now as condos: Read more.

The growing problem gnawing at Northeastern

By adamg - Sun, 11/12/2023 - 5:49pm

The Huntington News reports on rats and mice running roughshod over Huskies. One student was bitten, another reports putting towels under her doors to try to keep one hallway mouse from getting around, a third describes the situation of students competing for the best rooms only to get rodents as "ironic."

No drugs or sex toys strewn around Colony apartment where dead man, live children were found, police say

By adamg - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 10:43pm

Boston Police tonight are painting a different picture of the conditions inside an apartment at 381 Old Colony Ave. in which they found a dead body Saturday morning than the one that had percolated in the local media and prompted condemnations by, among others, City Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty. Read more.

Pioneering local political blog will disconnect next month

By adamg - Mon, 11/07/2022 - 1:40pm

Blue Mass. Group founder Charley on the MTA announced today he's turning off the site on Dec. 6 - spending $525 a year on an LLC for what's largely become a moribund site has become prohibitive.

Boston will follow state and lift most Covid-19 restrictions on May 29

By adamg - Mon, 05/17/2021 - 2:54pm

Acting Mayor Kim Janey made the announcement this afternoon, citing continuing increases in vaccination rates and drops in Covid-19 cases and hospitalization. Read more.

Power out in JP near Centre St Post Office

By Matt - Mon, 04/13/2020 - 11:54am

President Trump Signs Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act

By uhrinews - Sat, 12/28/2019 - 11:35am
TEXT: Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 Subtitle B—Other Matters SEC. 7611.

From Roxbury To Tanzania: Citizens Independence Initiative Arrivies

By uhrinews - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 7:37pm
Patron Yemere came to Roxbury to learn how Family Independence Initiative (www.fii.org) works. A few months later he was on a flight to Tanzania to sow the seeds of the new initiative in his homeland. The rest is history.

African Worship Experience

By uhrinews - Wed, 12/11/2019 - 1:48pm
Join the Ziah Mission African Church 30 Gordon Street Allston, MA 02134 10:00AM Good music, fellowship

Citizen complaint of the day: Wahlberg wannabes with boomboxes shouldn't be allowed at kiddie splash pads

By adamg - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 1:24pm

Continuing the cavalcade of complaints about splash pads in local playgrounds comes this 311 complaint about the playground at Johnson Park on Green Street in JP this morning: Read more.

Tory Tonight: a Boston late night show

By schneidz - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 12:42pm

Tory Bullock has started a talk show: Read more.

Telegram channel.

By damaskin - Sun, 06/09/2019 - 10:50am

Opera Man AKA Adam Sandler returns after 24 years to sing about the week's top headlines #SNL

By Anonymous - Tue, 05/07/2019 - 1:55am
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Time for Boston to start charging for parking permits, councilor says

By adamg - Tue, 04/23/2019 - 12:46pm

City Councilor Michelle Wu (at large) says a rapidly growing Boston can no longer simply dole out unlimited free resident parking permits to residents and wants the city to start charging $25 per annual sticker - with exemptions for senior citizens, low-income residents and home-health and BPS staff who make regular home visits. Read more.

Indiana native woman has massive crush on some Dorchester dudes

By OriginallyFromD... - Mon, 04/01/2019 - 5:25pm
Erin Osmon writes some, uh, interesting things about how women were portrayed in New Kids on The Block Lyrics, for The Muse (Jezebel):
The New Kids, by contrast, depicted women and girls as self-govern

From South Shore to South Africa: Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs joins Africa Express

By OriginallyFromD... - Wed, 03/27/2019 - 1:06am
Who knew that Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeahs Yeahs was from Sharon, Massachusetts (SPOILER ALERT: I did)? And who knew that Zinner traveled to South Africa (!!!), joined a band called Africa Express (!!!!), and has left the South Shore in his dust.

#ThatsMyPresident: Meet Leemarie Mosca, the new president & executive director of Rosie's Place.

By OriginallyFromD... - Thu, 03/21/2019 - 9:05pm
The Boston Globe's Annika Hom talks with Leemarie Mosca, the new president and executive director of Rosie's Place Mosca serves as "the organization's fif

Komplaint Dept: the world-famous-and-also-built-on-chattel-slavery-labor Harvard is getting sued again.

By OriginallyFromD... - Thu, 03/21/2019 - 8:31pm
Matthew S. Schwartz of NPR reports on a lawsuit against the Ol' Crimson brought by one Tamara Lanier. Per Lanier "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family.

Hey! Wait! I got a new (federal) complaint: disability rights & 'Varsity Blues' bribes at Harvard.

By OriginallyFromD... - Wed, 03/20/2019 - 10:04am
A federal complaint filed on behalf of a Harvard College student is shedding light on how the school handles disability rights and accommodations for Harvard students with disabili

Red line was stuck in Harvard Square for 20 Minutes Again

By ralphlopez - Thu, 02/08/2018 - 8:54pm
Won't switch out trains in need of repairs, blame tracks. If one car breaks down the whole line stops. Incompetent management should put all resources into new cars.