A light rain pattered down on the McLaughlin Playground field Wednesday night, turning the baseball diamond’s dusty infield the dark brown of a well-worn mitt. At this time last year, a drizzle like this would have had Paul Spirn and his fellow Mission Hill Little League (MHLL) coaches scrambling to break out the bilge pumps.
Although Massachusetts House and Senate leaders revealing their new transportation plan on Tuesday, experts say getting on the T after 12:35 a.m. on weekends still seems to be a distant dream for Boston late-night workers and bar crawlers.
The new proposal plans to collect a $500 million fund for public transportation, which is only half of what Governor Deval Patrick originally requested in his 21st Century Transportation Plan released January.
No matter where their ancestors called home, Boston residents are Irish by association on St. Patrick’s Day. They celebrate the holiday by donning their greenest gear and guzzling their weight in Guinness because, as the beer company claimed in their advertisements, “Everyone’s Irish on March 17.”
With the school year winding down and summer just on the horizon, millions of college students and recent grads are vying for temporary positions that promise to provide them with valuable skills, bolstered résumés and no money whatsoever.
Textbook prices have risen faster than tuition, housing costs and health care costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the phenomenon is beginning to catch the eyes of local politicians, who are seeking to form an exploratory committee to examine what can be done to reduce costs.
Crime is a perennial problem on urban campuses, but recently, several prominent Boston schools have suffered from bouts of violent crime that shocked students and staff.
Massachusetts is gearing up for a pair of important elections that could determine the fate of the state’s political climate for years to come. The contentious special election senate campaign will reach a climax in June, after which voters will be bombarded with the first waves of the 2014 gubernatorial election.
Former Massachusetts governor and democratic nominee for president Michael Dukakis endorsed special election senate candidate Ed Markey, he told the News on Thursday.
Last November, the Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Initiative passed by a 63 percent majority, but some communities in the state – like Melrose, Reading and Wakefield – have voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries from opening within city limits.
They climbed into trees, they sat atop porta potties, they waited for hours in the cold just for a distant view of the podium. They clapped through the famous musicians and listened to a ticket of renowned legislators, but they came to see one man put his hand on a bible and take the oath of the highest office in the country.
