Labor marches in solidarity and to send the regime a message
Ready to get back at it? Here's hoping you had a good Labor Day weekend, and didn't knock down any trees in a U-Haul.
Workers march in solidarity and to get ready for more regime outrages
September 1
Most Labor Days, the Greater Boston Labor Council holds a big breakfast and anybody who's anybody attends - we are a union town after all. But not this year. With a regime that has declared war on the union movement across the country and that is gearing up for a possible invasion of Boston, labor leader instead organized Boston's first Labor Day parade.
311 complaint of the day: Southie's not Allston, dammit
September 1
A disgusted resident filed a 311 report about South Boston Christmas ...
An industrial sunset
September 1
Matt Frank was by the Mystic in Chelsea this evening when bam, the sunset over the old Everett power plant got serious.
Guy goes to Annunication Road party with a gun loaded with 14 bullets, police say
September 1
Boston Police report officers responding to complaints about a loud outdoor party on Annunciation Road early Sunday spotted one guy tossing a bag over a fence and, when they went to investigate, found the bag contained "a Glock 21...
One U-Haul driver heeded the advice about Storrow Drive, but nobody warned him about trees
September 1
Roving UHub photographer John Costello came across this scene of U-Haul aboricide in Cleveland Circle shortly after 11 a.m. - not far, he says, from where another U-Haul driver came to a sudden stop after bendering the fender of another vehicle....
Three people found shot to death in Watertown house
August 31
Watertown News reports.
More from the Middlesex County District Attorney's office.
Never mind Storrow Drive, maybe Packards Corner needs some warning signs
August 31
For the second night in a row, Transit Police responded to Packards Corner early this morning after a driver proved unable to handle the intersection....
Three city councilors, three state legislators ask judge to go easy on Tania Fernandes Anderson
August 31
Convicted former City Councilor Tania Fernandes goes before a federal judge on Friday to be sentenced for the two kickback charges she pleaded guilty to in April....
Blinded by the light: Driver blames oncoming high beams for veering onto Green Line tracks in Packards Corner
August 30
Transit Police report officers arrived at the Green Line where it begins to curve with Commonwealth Avenue in Allston's Packards Corner around 1:30 a.m. to find a 2023 Hyundai SUV freshly ensnared by the trolley tracks.
East Boston woman goes to scheduled immigration appointment, is instead disappeared by ICE, lawyer says
August 30
An East Boston woman went to a scheduled appointment at an immigration office in Revere on Thursday afternoon, then never returned home, according to a suit filed on her behalf today.
Au currant at Haymarket
August 30
The Fort Pointer crossed the channel for a visit...
Bobby Brainworm at work: CVS won't offer Covid shots in Massachusetts
August 29
Massachusetts is one of three states with a law that says pharmacists can only offer shots approved by a CDC panel. But who knows when that panel will meet, and whether it will give its OK, given that Secretary Robert F. Brainworm fired all its members and its new chairman is...
If you already own 14 guns you bought in Massachusetts, that proves the state isn't infringing on your Second Amendment right to buy guns, judge concludes
August 29
Two guys who own 28 guns between them have not lost their Second Amendment right to pack heat for protection just because the state of Massachusetts requires guns sold by dealers here to meet certain safety standards, such as making it difficult for a five-year-old to pull a trigger, a federal judge concluded today....
Erupting volcano, a mayflower and a ring of turkey feathers are finalists for new state flag
August 29
The Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Commission has made its selections for the three finalists to replace the current Massachusetts flag, seal and motto....
Rat poison kills snapping turtle along the Charles in Watertown
August 29
Watertown News reports on what could be the first documented death of a Massachusetts snapping turtle by rodenticide - as opposed to eagles and other raptors bleeding out from the chemicals.
Postal inspector working on investigation of mail-fraud rings charged with stealing money mailed by victims for years
August 29
A senior postal inspector at the South Station post office was arrested this morning on a 45-count indictment alleging that for years, he opened packages full of cash sent by victims of Jamaican telemarketing scam rings and kept their money for himself....
Boston to test a new video surveillance network - for rats
August 29
The City Council this week approved plans by the Boston Housing Authority to test motion-activated video cameras around its dumpsters as a way to get a better handle on the comings and goings of the rats that infest them.
