Chicken of the snow
Why did the chicken cross the rotary?
February 9
The MSPCA reports a staffer, Corinne, was running some errands yesterday morning when she spotted something odd in the rotary where VFW and West Roxbury parkways meet in West Roxbury: Could that be a chicken?
Burst pipe shuts dorm at UMass Boston
February 9
Mass Media reports a 10th-floor sprinkler pipe burst in one of the school's dorms today, sending water flowing across the floor and then down to the floors below it. The school is now looking at how to house affected students off campus if the...
Once more into the fray: A dead train at Broadway
February 9
At 1:51 p.m., the MBTA reported 15-minute delays on the Red Line due to a train that decided it would just rather not leave the warm comfort of Broadway station. The T reported the recalcitrant train and its resulting delays cleared at 2:14.
Now that's using the old Behan: Jamaica Plain pub looks to open cafe next door
February 9
Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Brendan Behan Pub on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain's Hyde Square has filed a request to open Behan Caffe next door.
Polymarket wanna injunction against Massachusetts over company's 21st century version of sports wagering
February 9
Polymarket, one of those disruptive online derivatives trading sites, today sued Massachusetts over its hoary argument that if the company wants to offer "commodity futures trading" on the outcome of sportsball matches to Bay Staters it needs to get a state gambling license like some common sports-betting concern.
Wakefield plastering contractor now nearing fifth month in ICE concentration camp in Texas; judge rules ICE can keep him there for at least another month
February 9
The Irish Times reports on the continued imprisonment of Seamus Culleton of Wakfield, an Irishman married to an American woman who was picked up by ICE at a Home Depot in September as he was picking up supplies.
311 complaint of the day: Slashed tires and hermit-crab space stealers and their crabcrap
February 9
In what has become the winter of Boston's discontent, parking wars are getting bad. Two examples:
