Nurses sue regime to regain 'professional' status; meteor was likely a 'fishy squisher
But first, speaking of booms, people downtown could hear a lot of them starting around 12:30 today, but no need for concern: They're not a rain of meteors but just the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, holding its annual change-of-command procession through downtown, accompanied by Minutemen firing volleys and concluding with howitzers being shot on the Common.
Nurses sue regime to re-classify them as professionals
May 31
Given that the regime is run by members of the He-Man Women Hater's Club, it's probably not surprising it recently re-classified nursing students, who are predominantly women, as something other than "professional students." But a coalition of nurses' groups...
NASA says if the meteor remnants hit the earth, they likely landed in Cape Cod Bay, which agency says would make it a 'fishy squisher'
May 31
NASA has reviewed the data from yesterday's boomy-boom and concluded ...
311 complaint of the day: You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion on this Dorchester street
May 31
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the humongous outgrowth of poison ivy at Gallivan Boulevard and Neponset Avenue, by the expressway overpass in Dorchester's Neponset Circle ...
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Lexington group helps build national ICE flight tracker
May 31
Habeas Flight Tracker is "real-time deportation flight monitoring." Yep, Hanscom Field is on there, which makes sense, not just because that's where the regime tends to try to fly out immigrants...
Bird-feeder camera picks up the meteor boom - and the bird it startled
May 30
Parsingphase posts video from his Wakefield feedercam showing the moment of the Boom - and the bird that flew away in reaction. Turn your audio on.
BOOM!
May 30
At 2:11 p.m., people across eastern Massachusetts reported a large boom. Not thunder, not an earthquake, according to the charts maintained by the Weston Observatory. So exploding meteor ...
MBTA never told regulators about the poor guy who died in the escalator at Davis Square
May 30
NBC Boston reports state and federal regulators only learned of the death when it broke the story.
Wind helps trees obey the law of gravity and some are falling on power lines
May 30
Eversource is reporting nearly 2,000 Boston homes and businesses are without power this morning as gusty winds push trees down on wires. The outages are scattered across Boston, mainly in areas with overhead wires. The utility reports similar outages in surrounding communities...
Vulture wasn't going to let some light rain interrupt dinner
May 30
Brendan spotted a turkey vulture at St. Joseph Cemetery off Lagrange Street in West Roxbury about to enjoy an early fuzzy dinner in the light rain late yesterday afternoon....
North End feast society commits to staying away from AI
May 29
The Saint Agrippina Society announced today it won't be using any generative AI slop in its social media or posters in the run up to its annual mid-summer feast....
Massachusetts sues insurer it says overbilled MassHealth for care of seniors for a decade
May 29
The state today sued UnitedHealthcare for what it says was a decade of deliberately overbilling MassHealth for services that seniors in a managed "senior care organization" plan weren't actually getting. Read more.
Cosmetics heir snaps up Jamaica Plain dog-treat bakery
May 29
Jamaica Plain News reports that TAW Ventures, an investment firm owned by an heir to the Estee Lauder fortune, is buying Polkadog Bakery, which has been selling artisanal dog treats since 2002.
This was not in the morning plan: Silver Line halted by minivan
May 29
Johnmcboston had a bird's-eye view of a collision between a minivan and a Silver Line bus on Washington Street near East Berkeley Street in the South End around 8:40 this morning.
