Much of what's now the Seaport used to be a giant train yard where kids scavenged for coal
The good old days weren't always so good. In the early 1900s, anti-child-labor activist and photographer Lewis Wickes Hine spent a fair amount of time chronicling the lives of children forced to work sometimes grueling hours in Boston factories and as "newsies" - when not scavenging the train yards of South Boston for coal and the nearby city dump on what's now Columbia Point for things they could use or sell. Read/see more.
Robots need to stay in their lane
August 15
Dave the roving UHub photographer spotted this sign near the Lexington/Bedford line on the Minuteman Bikeway the other day.
And then he did some research and found the agency that put it up ...
Brewing up a union local in Jamaica Plain
August 14
Workers at the Sam Adams headquarters in Jamaica Plain say they will try to unionize, and join UFCW Local 328 ...
Police round up mopeds around Hyde Park
August 14
Boston Police report rounding up and hauling away 18 mopeds from across Hyde Park Thursday afternoon.
T employee whose hair Phil Eng pulled gets $495,000 settlement - and agrees to leave her job
August 14
WBUR reports.
Boston Health Care for the Homeless suffers data breach; two patients, employee sue
August 14
Two patients treated by Boston Health Care for the Homeless and a former employee have sued the non-profit because of the way their personal information may have been exposed by a data breach the group did not disclose for several months.
Guy's pit bull chomps another rider on the Red Line, then the pair just saunters away, police say
August 14
Transit Police report (with video) on an incident around 5 p.m. yesterday at Quincy Center on the Red Line ...
Beauty all around us
August 14
Jenn went for a walk through the Fenway Victory Gardens yesterday, and thanks all the gardeners.
