No more MDing for fisty Jan. 6 doctor; sheriff wants ethics fines barred from his extortion trial

Orange-stained pardon can't keep cop-punching Jan. 6 doc from losing her right to practice medicine

July 20

WWLP reports the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine won't let Dr. Jacquelyn Starer of Ashland, late of Brigham and Women's and Faulkner hospitals, renew her license because of the way she used her fists of fury to punch a Capitol cop in the head on Jan. 6, 2021.

Service on the Red Line becomes a joke because of a train at Harvard that broke

July 20

The MBTA reports its morticians on wheels have removed the train that gasped its last at Harvard, this afternoon, but that delays remain on the Red Line.

Sheriff's lawyer asks judge to bar prosecutors from raising his state ethics violations at his upcoming federal extortion trial

July 20

An attorney for Suffolk County Sheriff Steve Tompkins last week told a federal judge he should bar federal prosecutors from raising his two state ethics violations when he goes on trial next month on charges he extorted money from a company seeking to open a dispensary on Friend Street.

City, feds to propose $10-billion plan to protect much of Boston from rising sea levels

July 20

Boston officials and the Army Corps of Engineers today will unveil a draft of a long-term plan to protect the city from rising sea levels that could cost between $9.5 billion and $10.5 billion - but that they say will protect roughly $41 billion of buildings and infrastructure.