Council looks to bring down housing costs with two measures
Councilors propose eliminating parking requirements for new housing
April 15
The City Council will consider a proposal by three city councilors to end all zoning requirements for parking to go with new apartments and condos built in Boston - as a way to help spur development and reduce housing costs.
Boston council to seek new transfer tax on sale of expensive houses to help fund affordable housing
April 15
The Boston City Council today approved a request to the state Legislature to let the city levy a 2% transfer tax on the sale of homes valued more than $2 million - with the extra revenue going into a fund to support the creation of additional affordable housing.
Bad Boston traffic doesn't excuse police for waiting a day to pull over somebody on a traffic stop that led to his arrest on drug charges, court rules
April 15
The Supreme Judicial Court today overturned a man's conviction for cocaine trafficking because police found the cocaine in question on a traffic stop - for an alleged driving violation the day before.
Bloomin' Ahbs
April 15
Went for a walk around Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum this afternoon. The early bloomers were out.
The fog storms in
April 15
Adam Castaglioni looked up from a walk in the Back Bay today and noticed the taller part of the city were gone.
Man charged with trying to gouge Transit cop's eyes out
April 15
A man who'd decided he'd spent enough time in the Transit Police lockup following an arrest in Quincy jumped onto an officer's back, bit him in the head and dug his fingers into the officer's eye sockets before being pulled off by other officers, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The Orange Line is for the birds
April 15
Why waste all that energy flapping your wings when you can just get on the T? Sebastian Stockman took note of a fellow Orange Line rider today.
Fire forces partial evacuation of Boston Medical Center in Brighton
April 15
The Boston Fire Department reports that firefighters and EMTs evacuated some two dozen patients from Boston Medical Center in Brighton due to smoke from what turned out to be a three-alarm fire in an electrical room, called in around 1:30 a.m.
Officers grappled with man with loaded gun in Blue Hill Avenue fracas, police say
April 15
Boston Police report arresting three men - one armed with a gun loaded with 21 bullets - during an altercation as they tried to break up "a large group of mopeds and pedestrians" on Blue Hill Avenue at Paxton Street in Dorchester.
