Posts Tagged ‘massachusetts’
Is Your Junk Safe in Massachusetts?
Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency . In the spirit of the season, the Boston Globe reported on a study that found emergency preparedness in Massachusetts is not where it should be. Basically, your junk is in jeopardy. According to the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood [...]
Sports Redux: Take These Broken Wings and Learn To Fly Again
After the game, Celtics radio announcer Sean Grande said it best. Paraphrasing a little, he said good teams win "sexy" matchups like the one in New York on Wednesday. But great teams win the next night, too, on the second night of a back-to-back when everyone's tired and 40% of your [...]
Wednesday A.M. News, 12/15/10
Image by RobertSchneider from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . A man from Weymouth was arrested after allegedly trying to rob a woman at knifepoint in Boston’s South Station on Tuesday. Two MBTA employees detained the suspect until MBTA Transit Police arrived. The Radio City Rockettes [...]
Bedford, N.H. High School Debates Banning A Book
A book by Barbara Ehrenreich that calls Jesus Christ a "wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist" has caused two parents to remove their son from Bedford (N.H.) High School and ask the school to ban the book. The book, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America recaps Ehrenreich's [...]
Family wants to know how teen snuck onto plane
Family and friends of a North Carolina teen who stowed away in an airplane's wheel well said Tuesday they want to know why airport security didn't stop him from sneaking on and ultimately dying after he plunged several thousand feet. The rest is here: Family wants to know how teen snuck onto [...]
Mass. jury rules against Lorillard, awards $71M to dead smoker’s family
By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff A Massachusetts jury today ordered cigarette manufacturer Lorillard Inc. to pay $71 million in... Read the original here: Mass. jury rules against Lorillard, awards $71M to dead smoker's family
Goose Rescued, Turtles Relocated in Mass.
Image by Justin Quan from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr . The Animal Rescue League of Boston rescued a Canada goose from a frozen pond at the Breakheart Reservation in Saugus. Mark Vogal crawled out some 300 feet in an immersion suit to rescue the goose. The goose wasn't frozen in place, but [...]
Bite Size News, December 13: Moving, Shaking Edition
Image by Nathan Tia from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. MIT is planning to build along Mass Ave that will demolish one club and another long-shuttered bar. An Allston pizzeria won't get their liquor license because they're on the wrong side of the street. The Boston Society of Film Critics [...]
Photos – Defunct stores in Massachusetts
Framingham-based TJX Cos. announced today that it will phase out its A.J. Wright chain of discount stores, and convert 91 of the stores into its other chains, while closing the remaining 71 stores. The move is expected to cost 4,400 workers their jobs. Read the rest here: Photos - Defunct [...]
Colleagues: UMass trustee chairman quit over interference by governor
Robert Manning, the chairman of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees, abruptly resigned from the board yesterday over what colleagues said was his view that Governor Deval Patrick was increasingly interfering in oversight of the university. Originally posted here: Colleagues: [...]
