Worker in governor's office could be about to lose job because regime won't renew work visa
Some weekends are quiet. Not this one. Lots of news: A fire, people shoveling where the city won't, even a flaming trash truck in the snow. Oh, yeah, and there was a game yesterday, but let's not talk about that.
One firefighter injured at two-alarm fire in Dorchester three-decker
February 8
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 667 Adams St. in Dorchester for what turned into a two-alarm fire around 2:15 a.m., as the exterior temperatures hovered around 2 degrees.
The Green Line fails when trolley derails
February 8
Some of the wheels on a Green Line trolley came off the tracks at Park Street around 2:30 p.m., ending service on the B Line between Park and Government Center until 10:50 p.m.
Storyville in the snow
February 8
Sometime in the mid-to-late 1950s, Nishan Bichajian captured the view down Huntington Avenue from just outside the Copley Square Hotel and the Storyville bar towards Copley Square - where you can see what was then. ...
Worker in the governor's office could be about to lose her job because the regime won't renew her work visa
February 8
A Venezuelan woman and her American husband have sued the regime in hopes a judge will compel it to renew her work visa - and request for permanent residency - because otherwise she will lose her job in Gov. Healey's office at the end of the month.
Meet the Shovel Man of Jeffries Point: He goes around clearing out parking spaces for everybody to use
February 8
As Boston's 311 system fills up with complaints about space savers, including accounts of violence, Sam McGillis has been quietly going around East Boston's Jeffries Point with a snow shovel, chopping down and clearing away mounds of increasingly icy snow to create new curbside spaces for anyone to use. In the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association forum on Facebook, he wrote yesterday (with photos):
311 complaint of the day: Please, for the love of the Patriots
February 7
A bruised resident, one of the few not complaining about either space savers or unplowed streets, invokes the Patriots in a 311 complaint about the conditions on the Arthur Fiedler Footbridge:
Flaming trash truck on the edge of the Seaport in the snow
February 7
Boston firefighters responded to Sleeper Street and Northern Avenue around 11:15 a.m., after trash in the back of a garbage truck burst into flames. The driver dumped the flaming detritus to get it out of the truck, so as firefighters were dousing the fiery heap, Public Works was requested to clean up the resulting mess.
Ice message returns to the Public Garden
February 7
A roving UHub photographer yesterday snapped the latest message on the Lagoon ice in the Public Garden.
Regime still trying to grind Tufts grad student into the dust; appeals ruling that she be allowed to keep studying and working
February 7
Regime attorneys yesterday filed notice that they are appealing a Boston federal judge's decision to let Rümeysa Öztürk take classes and work at related jobs as she fights the regime's efforts to boot her from the country for the perfidy of co-authoring an article in the student paper criticizing her school's approach to the Gaza conflict.
City wouldn't clear a Comm Ave. bike lane, so some bicyclists showed up today with shovels
February 6
The Boston Cyclists Union organized a shovel brigade today to clear out part of the inbound Commonwealth Avenue bike lane, which had been impassible since the snowstorm almost two weeks ago, most recently with ice mounds that reached six feet in some spots.
Private school withdraws plans to expand into site of soon-to-close South End market
February 6
The Croft School announced today it won't be expanding into space Foodie's Market is planning to vacate at the end of June - saying it never intended to spark the imbroglio its announced move there caused in a neighborhood that ....
Backlash over MFA layoffs, in particular of curators of Islamic, Native American exhibits
February 6
The Huntington News reports.
Former administrator of failing Mission Hill nursing home admits to diverting Covid-19 relief funds to his own bank account
February 6
Tony Francis, administrator of the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center on Mission Hill, today admitted to diverting money meant to pay workers during the pandemic to his own bank accounts - where he then used the money to buy a Connecticut nursing home even as residents at the Mission Hill facility were sometimes going without colostomy bags.
White Stadium cost now up to $325 million
February 6
WBUR reports the cost of replacing the old semi-burned-out White Stadium is now up to $325 million, with the city's share up to $135 million, and the rest coming from the Boston Legacy Football Club. Mayor Wu blames tariffs, steel prices.
