Judge says MA can warn against anti-abortion clinics; Apartments planned for Soldiers Field Road
Judge rules Massachusetts has the right to warn people about anti-abortion 'pregnancy resource centers'
February 17
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by a chain of anti-abortion clinics against a Massachusetts state ad campaign warning people against such facilities.
Six-story residential building could go up on Soldiers Field Road where TV station was supposed to move to make room for a $1-billion life-sciences complex that got canceled
February 17
A Brookline developer will soon file plans for a six-story, 58-unit residential building at 1200 Soldiers Field Rd., to replace an empty office building that was once slated to be torn down for the new home of WBZ-TV, which in turn planned to move from its longtime home next door to make way for a four-building, mainly life-sciences campus, only the market for new life-sciences lab space in the Boston area collapsed and the developers abandoned their plans in 2024.
UMass Boston students flooded out of their dorm now staying at UMass Amherst dorm in Newton
February 17
Mass Media reports that a UMass Boston dorm remains shut after a tenth-floor sprinkler pipe burst on Feb. 9, forcing the school to turn to erstwhile rival UMass Amherst, which is letting 144 displaced students stay in dorms at its Newton campus, the former Mt. Ida College, with hourly shuttle service - 40 minutes away on a good day ...
Causeway Street nightclub operator, computer security firm join forces to sue plumbing consultants, contractor over bursting pipes that cause floods
February 17
Two tenants of the Hub on Causeway, the complex above North Station, today sued the companies that designed and installed the complex's rain-drainage systems because of two interior floods they charge were caused by poor design and installation - and a botched repair job after the first flood.
Jesse Jackson in Boston
February 17
Jesse Jackson died today, 84. In his time as a civil-rights leader and presidential candidate, he made several trips to Boston and Cambridge, for which you can watch local TV news reports:...
