Anotha scorcha; we're still on regime enemies list; Green Line nopes out
Hot
August 10
Boston's declared another heat emergency, for Monday through Wednesday, what with temps and humidity combining to give us heat indexes of 95 or 96 - so oppressive, but not quite as melty as the heat wave last month....
Hooded, masked teen with a loaded gun caught skulking in a driveway on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester, police say
August 10
Boston Police report officers directed to investigate a group of teens, all wearing hoodies and masks in a driveway on Woodrow Avenue at Willowwood Street in Dorchester found four teens matching that description around 2:45...
With the Orange Line shut for repairs, Green Line power woes causing nightmares
August 10
A Green Line trolley gave up the ghost around 10:30 a.m. after it left Haymarket and was about to enter Government Center. Then things got worse.
Yep, AI is a totally reliable source of information
August 10
Welcome to Dot reports he asked OpenAI's GPT-5 iteration to draw him a map of Boston neighborhoods and the "map" above is what he got back.
Regime compiles a new, shorter enemies list, but don't worry: Boston's still on it
August 10
Remember when the goons at Homeland Security came out with a list of Staatsfeinde that included the entire Commonwealth and, for good measure, 13 of its 14 counties and Boston? And then promptly retracted it? The more sober...
311 complaint of the day: No, don't keep going, you come here right now and pick this up
August 9
A concerned citizen filed a 311 request to ask that this mattress at Exeter Street and Public Alley 417 in the Back Bay be removed.
Sheriff released on $200,000 bond in Florida, free to fly back to Boston to face charges here
August 9
A magistrate judge in Fort Lauderdale federal court yesterday released indicted Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins on a $200,000 bond and agreed to let him travel by himself back to Boston - where he faces arraignment in federal court hereon two counts of extortion under color of official right....
Regime finds new way to try to crush Harvard: Invalidate its patents
August 9
The Crimson reports the regime is looking to invalidate Harvard University patents based on federal grants, which of course is totally not an ex post facto sort of thing to do just because you want...
That's the sturgeon moon? I am stunned
August 8
Matt Frank went down to Revere Beach this evening and captured the rising sturgeon moon - and a holdover from last weekend's sand-sculpting competition who seemed stunned, either because the moon is amazing or he's stunned to still be upright....
Keep your dog out of the Muddy River between Brookline Avenue and Avenue Louis Pasteur, city says
August 8
The Boston Public Health Commission reports a bloom of cyanobacteria (a.k.a. blue-green algae) in that stretch of the river. Read...
Newbury Street cosmetics shop gets OK to pair its offerings with Korean, Japanese hard liquors
August 8
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday voted to let Tao's, 336 Newbury St. in the Back Bay, glow up its current lineup of Korean and Japanese cosmetics with shoju and Japanese whiskies.
Board defers request from Morton Street market to sell beer and wine to consider neighborhood opposition
August 8
The Boston Licensing Board yesterday decided to take no immediate action on a request from the owner of Aguasvivas Market, 926 Morton St. in Mattapan, to add Caribbean and Latin American beers and wines to his bodega offerings.
Suffolk County sheriff indicted, arrested on charges he extorted a Boston cannabis dispensary
August 8
Suffolk County Sheriff Stephen Tompkins, 67, was arrested in Florida today after a federal grand jury in Boston indicted him on charges he extorted $50,000 from a cannabis concern seeking to open shop in Massachusetts - a concern that at the time employed his predecessor as Suffolk County sheriff....
When Pigs Fly away forever
August 8
Jamaica Plain News reports the When Pigs Fly bread store on Centre Street is closing its doors Aug. 17.
Man with portable speakers stuffed in his pants, pushing a shopping cart filled with cell phones and more speakers early in the morning attracted police attention in Dorchester
August 8
Boston Police report arresting a man they say used a brick to smash his way into the Cricket Wireless store in Dorchester's Fields Corner, then tried to wheel away with his loot stuffed in a shopping cart and his pants early Wednesday....
