How Boston's reflecting pool stacks up
Apologies for missing yesterday! Thought I'd sent out a newsletter, but woke up this morning to find it still in the "draft" folder, sigh ...
You don't have to go all the way down to DC to see a reflecting pool - we've got one of our own in the heart of the Christian Science Center. But how does it compare to the federal one? We ran some numbers.
Man shot to death on Selden Street in Dorchester
June 22
Boston Police report a man was shot at 6 Selden St. in Dorchester around 7:35 p.m.
Man ordered held without bail on charges he tried to murder somebody on desolate stretch of Hyde Park Avenue
June 22
A man was arraigned today on charges of attempted murder and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for a gun barrage that sent another man to the hospital around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday at 1636 Hyde Park Ave. - the home of the My Grandma's ...
Voters could get to decide whether Massachusetts replaces party primaries with California-style "jungle" primaries, court rules
June 22
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today there's nothing constitutionally wrong with a ballot question this fall that would end our current party primaries with all-against-all September primaries in which the top two vote getters, regardless of party, would move onto the final November elections....
Man shot in the abdomen on Quincy Street in Dorchester
June 22
A man was shot at 455 Quincy St. in Dorchester around 10:40 p.m. on Sunday.
Hyde Park man charged with murder for hitting, killing woman in Mattapan in car he'd just carjacked, police say
June 21
Boston Police report charging Ibraim Matos, 37, of Hyde Park with murder for the death of a woman walking on the sidewalk on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square not long after he allegedly crashed his own car and then carjacked another.
311 complaint of the day: Too many bullfrogs at Brighton pond
June 21
A fed-up resident files a 311 ribbet about all the bullfrogs at Chandler Pond in Brighton.
Mission Main, developer propose 114 "deeply" affordable apartments for seniors
June 21
The Mission Main development could gain a 114-unit, seven-story building for low-income seniors, under a plan to be filed by the Mission Main Tenant Task Force and WinnDevelopment.
Man shot at World Cup watch party in Hood Park in Charlestown
June 20
A man was shot in the chest at 100 Hood Park Dr. in Charlestown around 10:30 p.m. on Friday.
Man stabbed in Downtown Crossing
June 20
WHDH reports a man was stabbed in a fight at Tremont and West streets downtown around 1 a.m., and was taken to the hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
Body found at Roxbury Crossing mosque
June 19
Boston Police report they are investigating the discovery of a body around 2:20 p.m. at 100 Malcolm X Blvd., home of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.
Boston Ben and the Juneteenth flag
June 19
An interview with Ben Haith, the Boston man who created a flag for Junteenth.
Wu, Boston Herald, but not two former councilors, dismissed from fired BWSC official's discrimination suit
June 19
A judge has narrowed the number of defendants and issues in a racial and sexual discrimination suit against the Boston Water and Sewer Commission by its former human-resources director.
New signs at North Station come too late to help commuters arriving from Bodega Bay
June 19
Myron Freeman snapped the latest addition to North Station: Signs politely asking certain people to stop feeding all the damn pigeons that have turned the station into the world's largest pigeon aviary.
