Orange Line gets closer to Ludicrous Speed; Two women shot on Davison Street in Hyde Park
A little traffic in the Fenway
October 19
Sara Georgini walked along the Muddy River in the Fenway yesterday.
Orange Line gets closer to Ludicrous Speed
October 18
The MBTA announced today that Orange Line drivers can now get their trains up to 55 m.p.h. between Assembly and North Station, to go with the 55-m.p.h. maximum already allowed between Assembly and Oak Grove.
Republican PAC seems to think you're a moron
October 18
As voting season begins in Massachusetts, voters are getting flooded with postcards from a PAC supporting the Republican candidate for governor that warn them not to vote for "super liberal" Andrea James, who supports such "super liberal" notions as ending all cooperation with...
Two women shot on Davison Street in Hyde Park, in latest bout of gun violence in the neighborhood
October 17
Two women were shot at 114 Davison St. near Arlington Street in Hyde Park around 1:10 a.m.
Woman winds up under Red Line train at JFK/UMass, but is removed conscious
October 16
First responders headed to the JFK/UMass Red Line stop when a woman wound up under an inbound train on the Ashmont side shortly before 5 p.m.
Developer proposes 35-unit apartment building on the edge of Suffolk Downs
October 16
A developer has proposed replacing a small car-rental lot and billboard at Waldemar Avenue and Rte. 1A in East Boston with a five-story, 35-unit apartment building.
The asymptotic Red Line: Complete delivery of all the new cars stretches further out again
October 16
CommonWealth Beacon reports a target for delivery of all the new Red Line cars from China by way of Springfield has slipped yet again and that while the MBTA is not saying just when they hope riders will ...
Former manager wins $1-million verdict in racial-discrimination case against BWSC
October 16
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday ruled in favor of Terrance Williams, a longtime Boston Water and Sewer Commission employee who charged he was fired last year as retaliation for his formal state complaint and then lawsuit about racial discrimination.
Judge gives ICE until 3 p.m. today to release a man it's held for ten months now with no evidence it plans to actually deport him any time soon
October 16
In an order issued shortly before 9 a.m., a Boston federal judge gave ICE a 3 p.m. deadline to free a Cuban national it first stuffed in a cell last December, because even the Supreme Court says you can't just keep an immigrant locked up indefinitely if you don't have a place to send him.
311 complaint of the day: The world's shortest left-turn signal, now in Brighton
October 16
A frustrated motorist files a 311 complaint about the rejiggered signals at Commonwealth and Chestnut Hill avenues in Brighton, specifically, the amount of time people trying to turn left onto Chestnut Hill from Comm Ave outbound now have ...
