Public drinking zones unveiled; court strikes ballot q. on reducing state income tax
Boston announces revolutionary drink-in-public zones
June 18
Thanks, World Cup: Mayor Wu today announced two public zones downtown where you'll be able to get your drink on as you walk around on the sidewalk without worrying about getting yelled at by a cop and ordered to pour your drink into the nearest storm sewer.
Court strikes ballot question that would lower the state income tax
June 18
A ballot question that called for cutting the state income tax from 5% to 4% won't go before voters this fall because the Attorney General's summary of the measure - used on petitions to collect signatures - is incorrect, the Supreme Judicial Court said today.
Judge tells regime to quit its whining and just get to work restoring the National Park displays it removed by her original July 4 deadline
June 18
The Boston federal judge who ruled last week that the regime went too far in removing National Park displays that offend White-nationalist climate-change deniers failed to give her any good reasons to belay her order that the...
Rozzie rainbow
June 18
Lizkdc captured the rainbow (and a faint, second almost-a-bow) over Roslindale after the torrents this afternoon.
It's good to have friends: Just ask Steve Murphy
June 18
WBUR reports that some State House pals of the former city councilor now doing all that heavy lifting as Registrar of Deeds in Suffolk County, slipped language into a budget provision that could mean a $36,000 pay raise for...
Scotslove: Boston, Glasgow to work toward official Sister City status
June 18
Yes, Mayor Wu declared today at Boston's Scottish bar, the Haven in JP, she hopes Scots come back to Boston "again, and again, and again."
Peek-a-blue
June 18
Mary Ellen spotted this indigo bunting at Millennium Park in West Roxbury, reports that in between nibbling those yummy seeds, he was singing, no doubt to alert the ladies he's arrived.
