Kate Merrill charges she was fired at WBZ because she's white
Former WBZ morning anchor Kate Merrill sues station, CBS and Paramount, charging she was forced out because she's a white woman
August 5
Longtime WBZ reporter and anchor Kate Merrill, who mysteriously disappeared from the air in the spring of 2024, today sued her former station, network and network owner - and two Black former colleagues - for what she said was a network-orchestrated campaign to shed whites like her.
Judge bars regime from canceling grants to disaster-proof specific areas, including Everett, Chelsea and Cape Ann
August 5
A federal judge in Boston today issued a preliminary injunction to bar FEMA from canceling billions of dollars in grants meant for projects such as one to reduce the odds of catastrophic flooding along the Mystic River in Chelsea and Everett and another to replace a failing Manchester-by-the-Sea bridge that has conduits that carry all of Cape Ann's electricity.
Man felt he'd paid enough for the right to stand on a table smoking at Allston club; when a bouncer tried getting him down, he stabbed the bouncer and one of his own friends, police say
August 5
The Boston Licensing Board could consider Thursday whether Han, 186 Harvard Ave. in Allston, could have foreseen a patron who managed to sneak a pocket knife in would use it to try to carve up a bouncer and one of his own friends after the bouncer demanded he get down from the table he was standing on with a lit cigarette as closing time approached, and if so, if any sanction is warranted.
Good thing Omar Khayyam never lived to see the escalators at South Station
August 5
Apparently, every single escalator at South Station (all 13 of them, according to the T) is as dead as a doorknob, so were Khayyam still around, he'd probably write something like: ...
Scali bread: Unlike Prince spaghetti, not originally from the North End
August 5
Richard Auffrey does some research, concludes that scali bread originated in Fitchburg in the 1940s and is named not for a North End family but for an Italian word for "stairs, terraces or steps," from an older word meaning "ladder," which, when you look at scali bread, you might be reminded of.