New statues, wild turkeys in the city and the doll that started a ruckus at UMass Boston
New Freedom Trail statue memorializes all the people enslaved by ministers and parishoners at King's Chapel
September 14
Chris Walton shows us the Memorial to Enslaved Persons outside King's Chapel on Tremont Street, to honor the 219 men, women and children enslaved by the church's early ministers and parishioners....
Northeastern tells students they can't just burst into somebody's dorm room for some TikTok laughs
September 14
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University officials are having to play in loco parentis and tell students they shouldn't jump off a bridge just because everybody else is, um that it's against campus...
311 complaint of the day: Boston needs to put up Turkey Crossing signs and maybe some Racist Crossing signs
September 14
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about turkeys darting in and out of traffic at Packards Corner in Allston and also racist Trump supporters being part of that traffic and yelling at him, but mostly about the turkeys:...
The man who flew from the steeple of Old North Church - three times
September 13
The folks at Old North Church remind us that today's the anniversary of a man flying, or perhaps "flying" from the church steeple in 1757.
What a difference some rain makes
September 13
Eastern Massachusetts is officially in a drought again, but you wouldn't know it from standing at the canoe launch on the Charles River at Millennium Park, where last weekend's rain means the river once more reaches from shore to shore rather than...
Exchange of gunfire in Roxbury leaves BPD officer, suspect shot
September 13
Boston Police report a man opened fire on a cop on Kenilworth Street in Roxbury early Friday, hitting an officer, and that other officers then opened fire, hitting him....
Former community activist Cannon-Grant to plead guilty to fraud charges
September 13
Monica Cannon-Grant, who built an anti-violence organization that included a Hyde Park community center and food pantry opened with the help of the Walsh administration, agreed yesterday to plead guilty to a 26-count indictment that includes charges she sucked money out of the non-profit group and helped her husband defraud a mortgage lender...
Yesterday's UMass Boston drama began when somebody found a doll with a caution label attached to it
September 12
State Police and the Boston Fire Department dispatched units around 3:30 p.m. on Thursday to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute next to the JFK Library and the UMass Boston campus to investigate a doll just lying there with a label reading "caution" on it, after somebody called 911 and expressed fear the doll might have some sort of chemical on it...
Massachusetts sues online 'prediction market' as unlicensed sports-betting site
September 12
The state today sued Kalshi, a New York-based concern that lets users bet on everything from the next city the regime will invade to the outcome of individual Red Sox games - charging that if it looks like a gambling site and walks like a gambling site, it's an unlicensed gambling site....
Police hunt group of teens for beating and robbing their way across Dorchester
September 12
Boston Police report they are looking for three girls they say beat two workers sat a Norfolk Street market and tried to rob a Blue Hill Avenue fried-chicken joint while three boys...
Appeals court says regime can resume gutting Planned Parenthood like a fish
September 12
A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday stayed an order by a lower-court judge that ordered the regime to keep paying Medicaid claims from Planned Parenthood clinics across the country, including in Massachusetts....
We'll never have oil derricks off our coast, but one day, maybe, we could have water wells
September 12
Associated Press reports on research,into a potentially vast aquifer of fresh water off the East Coast, from New Jersey to Maine - in a layer well below the briny deep. Scientists, who have spent months boring off Cape Cod, are still...
New editor at Cambridge news outlet
September 12
Cambridge Day has hired Michael Fitzgerald, who has had stints at the Globe and ZDNet, as its new fulltime editor in chief, Dan Kennedy reports. Cambridge Day founder Marc Levy will stay on as an editor and writer.
A city of immigrants celebrated on the Greenway
September 12
The Fort Pointer took in Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez's Elevar La Cultura, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square, across from South Station.The Fort Pointer took in Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez's Elevar La Cultura, on the Rose Kennedy Greenway at Dewey Square.
