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State says Croft School founder ran the place like a Ponzi scheme, which, like all Ponzi schemes, fell apart July 2 State security regulators today charged that Scott Given of Wellesley, who claimed to have started the Croft School as a way to provide a quality private education at reduced
Pink-haired woman with three phones in a Queens supermarket at the center of an Allston/Brighton brothel chain, BPD and feds say July 1 A woman from Flushing, NY faces charges she helped run a chain of brothels in Allston/Brighton that employed women from East Asia to service
Developer planning apartment building at Washington and Bromfield with more units than the 59-story tower it once proposed there June 30 A New York developer that first began talking in 2006 about redeveloping the block it owns at Washington and Bromfield streets in Downtown Crossing says it will soon
Warning of 'harm and chaos,' Massachusetts and other states sue to block work requirement for Medicaid recipients June 29 Massachusetts, 24 other states and the District of Columbia today sued the regime over its proposal to make Medicaid recipients work for their healthcare - possibly even if they are
Developer proposes 17-story apartment building on Bromfield Street - near site where it's been proposing various towers for 20 years now June 28 A New York real-estate firm says it will soon file detailed plans for a 17-story, 158-unit apartment building on Bromfield Street at
Gov. Healey and the United Way of Mass Bay announced a fund to help support an estimated 45,000 Haitians in Massachusetts on "temporary protected status" visas now that the Supreme Court has ruled the regime can soon start throwing them in camps to await deportation to their
Owners of a Dorchester bar designed with Flann O'Brien's of Mission Hill in mind hope to re-open Flann O'Brien's June 24 The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owners of the Banshee on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester open
Councilors want Orange Line extended down Blue Hill Avenue June 23 City Councilors Miniard Culpepper (Roxbury) and Brian Worrell (Dorchester) say the MBTA should build an Orange Line extension from Ruggles to Mattapan Square through a new tunnel under Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue. Boston's Pink Taco
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
Boston announces revolutionary drink-in-public zones June 18 Thanks, World Cup: Mayor Wu today announced two public zones downtown where you'll be able to get your drink on as you walk around on the sidewalk without worrying about getting yelled at by a cop and ordered to
The last bit of the Citgo sign was removed yesterday, as part of an $8 million project to make it more prominent, by moving it roughly 120 feet on a base that will be 30 feet higher. But that will take six months, so in the meantime, we have just
Moon, bridge and planet June 17 Adam Balsam captured the moon over the Zakim last night - and also Mercury (the tiny dot to the right of the bridge cables). Here's another view (with an even fainter Mercury) ... South End condo building sues property-management firm over $805,000