Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara both lose Boston City Council preliminary election battles - The Boston Globe
Ricardo Arroyo and Kendra Lara both lose Boston City Council preliminary election battles - The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/09/12/metro/boston-city-council-election-results-2023/
In a pair of stunning rebukes, Boston voters on Tuesday rejected two embattled incumbent city councilors, a historic vote that illustrates discontent with the dysfunctional legislative body and sinks two once-promising political careers.
Boston has entered the cone of probability for Hurricane Lee
Oh, look who just made the Cone of Probability
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/oh-look-who-just-made-cone-probability
OK, Lee is still a long ways away, it could wobble or wibble and miss us completely, but the National Hurricane Center added eastern Massachusetts to its Cone of Probability for Saturday - even as it cautions it's still too early to say what impact it will have besides dangerous rip currents. Read more.
Boston.com 2023-08-11 - Lawsuit: Mass. Catholic couple says they were barred from fostering children over LGBTQ+ beliefs
Lawsuit: Mass. Catholic couple says they were barred from fostering children over LGBTQ+ beliefs
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2023/08/11/lawsuit-catholic-couple-says-they-were-barred-from-fostering-children-lgbtq-beliefs/
The Burkes, a Catholic couple from Southampton, say they were blocked from fostering over their religious views on gender and sexuality.
State tweaks MBTA Communities housing law - CommonWealth Magazine
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/housing/state-tweaks-mbta-communities-housing-law/
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE STATE ON Thursday gave more flexibility to cities and towns required to have at least one zone in which denser, multi-family housing is permitted, but also expanded the list of state grant opportunities that can be denied to any town that does not comply with the law meant to spur(...)
‘Was Empire Garden a Porn Palace?’
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/2017/01/29/empire-garden-history-olq/
The second installment of our ask-us-anything series.
Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it's closing a New England power plant.
Rooftop solar was overlooked. Now it's closing a New England power plant.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/rooftop-solar-was-overlooked-now-its-closing-a-new-england-power-plant/
Regulators were surprised to find residential solar panels shoring up the region's grid during the coldest months. It could reshape the national debate on
US court rules for Boston in Satanic Temple opening prayer lawsuit
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/08/01/us-court-rules-for-boston-in-satanic-temple-opening-prayer-lawsuit/
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit The Satanic Temple filed against the City of Boston, ruling that the City Council did not discriminate against the group when it chose not to grant its reque…
Fee-Waived Adoptathon for Small Animals and Birds
Fee-Waived Adoptathon for Small Animals and Birds
https://www.mspca.org/events/fee-waived-adoptathon-for-guinea-pigs/
Man wanted in hit-and-run death of 4-year-old Hyde Park boy turns himself in to police - The Boston Globe
Man wanted in hit-and-run death of 4-year-old Hyde Park boy turns himself in to police - The Boston Globe
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/31/metro/suspect-sought-in-hit-and-run-death-of-hyde-park-boy/
Boston police on Monday identified a suspect who later turned himself in to authorities in the July 18 hit-and-run crash in Hyde Park that killed a 4-year-old boy.
Emails Reveal State Officials’ Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge
Emails Reveal State Officials' Flawed Excuses For Taking Away Riverbend Park Access in Cambridge - Streetsblog Massachusetts
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/07/26/emails-reveal-state-officials-flawed-excuses-for-taking-away-riverbend-park-access-in-cambridge
Emails obtained under the Massachusetts Public Records law reveal how Governor Healey’s newly-hired Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Tepper, decided to restrict access to public parkland by cancelling her agency’s popular car-free Saturdays on Memorial Drive in Cambridge earlier this year. In a memo to the Governor, Tepper wrote that “this has become […]