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9h ago
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded to 26 Monponset St. around 4:15 p.m. for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The department reports heavy smoke was already coming from the fire on both the first and second floor when firefighters arrived ..read more
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10h ago
Jonatham Kamens reports that he and other employees at the US Digital Service got word from their new Musk overlords last night they have been fired.
There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
Before I was fired tonight, I was in charge of information security for VA.gov, which has millions of users per month and stores and processes huge amounts of veterans' personal information. I've been told by people ..read more
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12h ago
Roving UHub photographer Clay Gollobin shows us three of the people protesting the acting president outside his showroom in Dedham today ..read more
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12h ago
On a trip down to Plymouth, Mary Ellen spotted a rare four-legged herring gull enjoying some fresh shellfish.
OK, OK, she really spotted one gull with a clam standing in front of another gull ..read more
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16h ago
The Boston Planning Department this week approved a "Squares and Streets" plan for Roslindale Square that includes zoning changes to make it easier to add housing atop the square's one-story commercial buildings, engineering studies of realigning Washington and Poplar streets along Adams Park and creating a more plaza-like feel to the intersection of Belgrade Avenue with South and Roberts streets.
The plan also calls for investigating ways to keep Roslindale Square the home of small, locally focused businesses - including more shops and services catering to Black, Hispanic and immigrant group ..read more
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A group of gun groups and a student at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Brewster yesterday sued the state over a regulation that prohibits people between 18 and 20 from owning and walking around with guns - and say this will be their first crack at winning repeal of a law passed last year that also tightens restrictions on automatic weaponry and "ghost" guns.
The Gun Owners' Action League, Commonwealth Second Amendment, Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, the NRA and Gun Owners of America, along with ..read more
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1d ago
Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.
Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest.
The protesters marched from the Parkman Bandstand to the JFK Federal Building ..read more
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1d ago
The Boston Business Journal reports that John Snow, Inc., which runs public-health programs in both the US and around the world, has laid off roughly 1,100 employees because the Musk administration has ended USAID funding, including money it had been getting ..read more
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1d ago
Boston Police report officers with a search warrant arrested a Randolph man in an apartment on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Square, where they also found a loaded rifle, three guns and bags of coke, crack and fentanyl Wednesday morning.
Sean Brown, 29, of Randolph, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, second offense, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, second offense and unlawful possession of ammunition, police say. He was not charged with possession of the drugs.
At his arraignment in Dorchester Municipal Court yesterday, Judge Jonathan Tynes ordered him held at least pend ..read more
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2d ago
Telegram.com reports the Republican Town Committee in Hudson has canceled an event next week where local y'all quedaists Mark Sahady and Sue Ianni were scheduled for some post-pardon adulation just because people who objected to their glorification were promising protests and vowing to close their accounts at the bank whose meeting room they were going to use.
Avidia Bank was criticized by large numbers of online commenters who questioned why the bank would allow its building to be used for an event featuring insurrectionists. Many social media posts talked of canceling accounts with th ..read more