Danny McDonald
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Police Commissioner Cox on Southie St. Patrick’s Day festivities: BPD is ‘prepared for almost anything’
Boston police are ready for this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities, which can draw hundreds of thousands of revelers to the city’s streets, officials told the public at a Monday afternoon news conference at Boston Police Headquarters. → Read More
A tiny street in Dorchester is a magnet for street violence. Police say one house is the source of so much trouble.
A teal-colored triple decker at 10 Helen St. has served as a hive of gang activity, raided by police at least three times in as many years, and has been shot at multiple times amid conflicts between rival street crews, including one group that calls the triple decker home, police records and court documents show. → Read More
Felix D. Arroyo, former councilor and patriarch of Boston political family, retires as Suffolk probate register
A pioneering Latino who broke barriers on the City Council, as School Committee chairman, and most recently while serving as Suffolk County register of probate, Arroyo has been a fixture of local politics for more than 40 years. → Read More
Police Commissioner Cox brings back former BPD lawyer as chief of staff
Nicole Taub, a former BPD lawyer who most recently worked for the town of Braintree as chief of staff and town solicitor, will fill the post. It was not immediately clear Monday what her salary would be, or who she is succeeding. → Read More
Want to know what Boston’s electeds text each other? Good luck
In response to a Globe public records request seeking texts from and to Mayor Michelle Wu from Jan. 20-27, the city did not produce a single one, claiming the mayor “does not conduct official City business via text message and does not retain text messages.” → Read More
Number-crunching youth violence in Boston: Just how bad is it?
High-profile instances of violence involving local teens in recent months have added fuel to the debate over whether police officers should return to schools. → Read More
At Mass. and Cass, BMC shutting down Roundhouse clinical programs
Boston Medical Center is planning to shut its clinical programs for addiction treatment at the Roundhouse by the end of March because of a lack of long-term funding. → Read More
Under Wu, residency waivers for Boston municipal jobs have spiked. Does it matter?
Residency requirements have long been a hallmark of many municipal jobs in Boston, but, increasingly, workers and politicians are acknowledging that parts of the policy are outdated. → Read More
‘I hate the cold’: In Boston, homeless people seek shelter from an extreme chill
As record low temperatures prepare to blanket Massachusetts this weekend, homeless Bostonians are facing a frightening dilemma: Head to shelter or brave weather this city hasn’t seen in more than a century. → Read More
Amid a ‘huge collective trauma,’ a Harvard program aims to train Ukrainian doctors
The conflict has forced primary care physicians, for instance, to be trauma experts, and the Harvard program aims to help train doctors for mass casualty events. → Read More
Vigil planned on Boston Common ahead of release of Memphis police video of Tyre Nichols beating
Boston community leaders are holding a vigil Friday night at “The Embrace” statue on the Boston Common ahead of authorities in Memphis releasing video of the police beating of Tyre Nichols, a Black man who died after he was pulled over and arrested. → Read More
Like his predecessor, Wu’s incoming street violence prevention guru aims to focus on root causes
Isaac Yablo will succeed his friend and mentor Rufus Faulk to become Boston's senior adviser for public safety. → Read More
Michelle Wu promised ‘significant reform’ to police union contracts. Now comes the hard part.
The city’s largest police union is already trying to push contract talks off the bargaining table and into the hands of outside arbitrators, a move that has historically favored the unions. → Read More
At City Hall, a sit-in to protest the name of a Boston landmark
One day before Boston celebrates the unveiling of a statue dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., two dozen or so demonstrators staged a sit-in Thursday outside Mayor Michelle Wu’s City Hall office, pushing for the city to rename tourism hotspot Faneuil Hall because of its links to the Colonial slave trade. → Read More
Boston police rejected a dozen requests for help from ICE in 2022
BPD did so in accordance with a local law that seeks to distance the city from federal immigration enforcement by preventing police from engaging in deportation proceedings. → Read More
Tent City, once a triumph of community activism, is now home to strife over maintenance and security
Interviews with a dozen Tent City residents — many of whom spoke only on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution — paint a grim picture of a place where appliances don’t get fixed and recurring maintenance problems languish, and where people fear retaliation if they complain. → Read More
Mass. officials say state’s emergency shelter system needs more funding ASAP
Citing a lack of funding, housing officials are warning the Massachusetts Legislature they may run out of space and will not be able to place homeless families in the state’s emergency shelter system within the next three months or so unless something is done. → Read More
Boston’s largest police union moves toward arbitration as negotiations with Wu administration stall
The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, which has 1,600 members and is the largest police union in the city, filed a request for arbitration with the state Joint Labor-Management Committee on Tuesday evening, the source confirmed to the Globe Thursday. → Read More
From a homeless hotel to a Taunton apartment, one grandmother starts a new chapter
After spending weeks at homeless facilities for families with the two grandchildren she is raising, Felicia King now has a place to call her own just in time for the holidays, a modest 3-bedroom third-floor apartment not far from Taunton Green. → Read More
City Councilor Mejia: I am under attack by white supremacists who are body-shaming me
Boston City Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia said she is under attack by white supremacists who are body shaming her and falsely accusing her of being addicted to drugs, all in an attempt to undermine the political stances she has taken. → Read More