Street sweeping returns to the South End with a vengeance; Council thrown into a tizzy
Easy come, easy go on Shawmut Avenue
April 30
A roving UHub photographer stopped to marvel at the fleet of a dozen car-haulers hauling cars away from Shawmut Avenue this afternoon, enforcing the Thursday parking ban during street-sweeping season.
Series of non-binding resolutions throws Boston City Council into a tizzy
April 30
Accusations of performativeness and racism flew like birds through the City Council chambers yesterday as councilors debated non-binding resolutions and information requests that ranged from blocking Robert and Jonathan Kraft from using Charlestown as a giant parking lot for their soccer stadium and saving federal road-safety grants to drink spiking.
311 complaint: Love the message, hate that kids have to see it
April 30
A torn citizen files a 311 complaint about some graffiti on steps on the Foster Street side of Rogers Park in Brighton ...
Judge orders ICE to release an immigrant by the end of today; rules it failed to follow its own regulations
April 30
A Boston federal judge yesterday ordered ICE to free a Jamaican national - who has been in the US since he was 9 - by the end of today, because it's failed to provide a shred of evidence it's really about to put him on a plane back to his homeland, let alone, as required by its own regulations, explain to him why it's so vital he be deported immediately.
More restaurants get OK to upgrade menus from beer and wine to full panoply of alcohol
April 30
The Boston Licensing Board today approved upgrades for more restaurants with beer-and-wine licenses to serve other forms of alcohol as well - and granted a neighborhood-specific beer-and-wine license to a restaurant in Hyde Park.
