US Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-7th) joined VA and other government workers outside the VA Medical Center in West Roxbury today to denounce the Musk administration's moves to demolish the VA system, which started last week with the immediate layoffs of 1,000 VA workers across the country. Read more.
Outside West Roxbury VA hospital, Lynch vows to fight White House wacko's bid to destroy VA, Ukraine
By adamg - 2/21/25 - 2:26 pm
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By adamg - 2/20/25 - 8:44 pm
US Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-8th) reports he'll be at the Spring Street entrance to the West Roxbury Veterans Administration hospital at 1 p.m. on Friday to lead a protest "in support of our veterans and federal workers who have been impacted by President Trump's massive layoffs." Signs are encouraged, he says.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 8:17 pm
Trump's Secretary of Killing Dogs decreed today that "temporary protected status" for several hundred thousand Haitian refugees - many of whom live in the Boston area - will expire Aug. 3 instead of next February, as set by former Secretary of Homeland Security Alexander Mayorkas. His replacement blamed Mayorkas for not considering how a humanitarian policy might lead to the downfall of the American empire.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 10:57 pm
Federal workers and supporters marched outside the O'Neill Building on Causeway Street this afternoon to protest what acting President Musk and his minions are doing to wreck government agencies that protect the public. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:29 am
Protest starts at 4:30 p.m. at the O'Neill Building, 10 Causeway St., conveniently located next to North Station. Sponsored by the new Federal Unionists Network.
By adamg - 2/18/25 - 8:15 pm
The JFK Library Foundation says the Dorchester library and museum will re-open to the public tomorrow. In a separate statement e-mailed to reporters, it adds: Read more.
By adamg - 2/17/25 - 2:04 pm
Ron Newman attended today's patriotic down-with-kings rally at the State House, which he reports was his third in two weeks and "the largest so far." Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 1:35 pm
Roving UHub photographer Clay Gollobin shows us three of the people protesting the acting president outside his showroom in Dedham today.
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 11:01 am
A group of gun groups and a student from Brewster at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy 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. Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 11:22 pm
Ron Newman attended the pro-democracy protest downtown today.
Erica Fletcher also participated in the Stop the Coup protest. Read more.
By adamg - 2/13/25 - 6:18 pm
Isabel Ravenna posts some video of people protesting the acting president's Tesla car and truck lines outside his showroom in the Prudential Center on Boylston Street today. Small group, but next time they should try more publicity in advance.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 7:46 pm
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that the chain, long kept out of Boston by Tom Menino, is looking to move into Dorchester and Mattapan, with the backing of Mattapan state Rep. Russell Holmes, who says he's looking for "a Chick-fil-A in Black Dorchester, or [anywhere] in Dorchester" with local franchise owners.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 5:46 pm
The Boston City Council today voted 12-1 to approve a request to the state legislature to let Boston temporarily increase the tax rate on commercial property to try to ease the tax burden on residential property owners caused by the sharp decrease in the value of commercial buildings downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 3:19 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports that Josh Kraft says if elected he would reduce the percentage of new housing units that have to be rented or sold as affordable from 20% to the 13% level before Michelle Wu became mayor. Kraft says this, coupled with tax breaks for landlords who agree to limit annual rent increases, would boost housing.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 9:30 am
The Globe reports GBH is removing the dreaded word "diversity" from its Web site in the hopes it won't be sent to its room without dinner.
As of five minutes ago, Boston's other NPR news station, WBUR, still had a link on its home page to a 2021 essay by CEO Margaret Low that used two other naughty words: "Diversity, equity and inclusion at WBUR." She began: Read more.
By adamg - 2/6/25 - 12:40 pm
The president yesterday signed one of his executive orders, this time to ban transgender athletes. Our Charlie Baker, now head of the NCAA, immediately complied, expressing gratitude for "a clear, national standard" he can get behind. Read more
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 3:02 pm
APB captured the scene outside the State House today, part of a 50-state protest. Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 2:03 pm
The Boston City Council today voted unanimously to prohibit councilors from requiring their employees to sign NDAs or similar documents as a condition of employment. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:51 pm
You may have heard about the barely pubescent kids currently trying to run rampant through government computer systems that handle trillions of dollars in transactions and data on millions of Americans. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:09 pm
Educational expert and former Boston School Committee member Mary Tamer yesterday sued a collection of New York-based educational-reform groups, charging they fired her in September as their Massachusetts coordinator - in the middle of the battle over an MCAS ballot question - not because she wasn't doing her job well but because their CEO, former Providence mayor Jorge Elorza, has strong disdain for women, particularly older ones. Read more.
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