Councilors want Orange Line down Blue Hill Ave.; rent-control ballot question tossed
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 is closed up
June 23
Boston Restaurant Talk reports a double-entendre name was not enough to save the taco place - the last of a chain of them - on Congress Street.
Two get 25 to 30 years for helping to gun down a man their pal was arguing with on Geneva Avenue
June 23
Two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday for the 2023 death of Curtis Effee at 417 Geneva Ave. near Westville Street in Dorchester on Dec. 30, 2023 were sentenced today to 25 to 30 years in state prison, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Boston brokers pilot that will let hackney cab drivers accept Uber/Lyft calls
June 23
Mayor Wu and Police Commissioner Michael Cox today announced a one-year pilot that will let city-licensed cab drivers respond to ride requests via Uber and Lyft - except to Logan.
Irish bar downtown closes for today, so Englishmen will just have to find someplace else to celebrate/drown their sorrows
June 23
The Dubliner, across from City Hall, did gangbusters last week when the Scots were in town. But no thirst quenchers for fans of England, playing at Gillette this afternoon ...
Once, vendors roamed Boston streets, selling fried chicken out of baskets
June 23
Richard Auffrey recounts the time, like around the turn of the 20th century, when men or their families fried up a mess of chicken, then they went out on the streets selling it out of the baskets they carried.
Court tosses rent-control ballot question because it has a religious component
June 23
The Supreme Judicial Court today dismissed a referendum proposed for the November election for rent control because it would have specifically called to exclude units in buildings owned by religious institutions for religious purposes, such as homes for retired priests and nuns.
