NPS bows to MAGA, will remove parts of display at Bunker Hill
National Park Service to scrub quotes from panels at Bunker Hill Monument that might offend MAGA chuds
June 4
The Washington Post reports a visitor to the Bunker Hill Monument "complained to park staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being 'woke' feminist ideology" on a panel there, and somebody at the National Park Service stopped what they were doing and went over panels with a fine-toothed MAGA-comb and now the regime plans to purge panels expressing doubts about the American role in Vietnam by two veterans of that war, an 1846 letter to the editor of a Boston abolitionist paper complaining about slavery and an excerpt from an 1875 editorial extolling immigrants.
When life is hell, come to dbar
June 4
Clear Channel has a couple of billboards mounted on one side of dbar's parking lot on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester. Recently, the company put up one of those ads with a mission, as its Amish/Mennonite sponsors say, to "glorify God and help enlarge His kingdom."...
Guy uses padlock on a lanyard to smash two men in the head at the Charlestown 99, yes, that 99, police say
June 4
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say sent two men at the 99 Restaurant, 31 Austin St. in Charlestown, to the hospital with cuts to their heads and possible related injuries.
ICE let woman rot in overcrowded jails with broken toilets in New England and Louisiana for months without ever giving her the custody hearing its own rules require
June 4
A Boston federal judge who "temporarily" freed a Honduran woman in February after months of being detained and shipped around New England and Louisiana made the woman's freedom permanent yesterday after ICE proved unable to provide any proof it had ever given her a required "custodial" interview.
The DA battle
June 4
The Bay State Banner takes a look at the three people running for Suffolk County District Attorney this fall: Incumbent Kevin Hayden, former incumbent Rachael Rollins and Linda Champion, who ran in 2018.
311 complaint of the day: Ignore all the other 311 complaints from our street
June 4
A resident of Brigham Street in East Boston has filed a 311 complaint to complain about all the other 311 complaints from Brigham Street about illegal parking.
With bonus Monty Python reference.
Chick-fil-A moves deeper into Boston
June 4
The Boston Licensing Board today approved a food-serving license for a Chick-fil-A counter in the food court at South Station, with hours of 6 a.m. to midnight although not, presumably, on Sunday. There are already Chick-fil-A outlets in Copley Square and at Logan Airport.
Earlier:
When Boston had a mayor who told the chain to cluck off.
The City that Always Sleeps wakes up a bit: Board approves shawarma until 3 a.m. at Haymarket and a 24-hour Dunk's drive-thru in East Boston
June 4
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by restaurant owner Youssef Ibrahim to replace the closed Haymarket Pizza with a shawarma place open until 3 a.m.
Step aside, Thomas': Board approves North End bakery that will only make English muffins
June 4
The Boston Licensing Board today approved retail sales at a bakery at 33B Fleet St. in the North End that only uses its ovens to make English muffins.
Orange Line riders are on the hook: Power woes near Stony Brook
June 4
The MBTA is reporting Orange Line delays of up to 15 minutes due to a "power problem" somewhere between Jackson Square and Stony Brook, which is actually an improvement over the situation last night, when power between Roxbury Crossing and Forest Hills began leaking into the ground or something, to the point where the lights at Forest Hills...
