I can’t top this

hey folks please listen to Eliana Moreno's family's request for respect and that they are not accepting donations. Any GoFundMe or donation page you see online is not from them. I know her family and can confirm this.

Free botox, oyster shucking, a table draped in mortadella meat. (yes that's meat.) It takes a lot more than cheap wine to get people into your open house these days. Had SO much fun writing this. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/16/r…

In which a Boston Police union and the ACLU are on the same side? via @evezuckoff wbur.org/news/2026/09/14/flo…

At Boston City Hall for Brownsberger-Lander recount Multiple state senators here, as are current and former Wu aides. underscoring the cloze race's mayor vs. Senate dynamic

I asked Sec. of State Bill Galvin about Sen. Nick Collins' allegations of political interference in the primary election Here's what he said

Pretty excited for this with @EmbraceBOS & @dtownboston! "El Gran Combo to headline Boston festival" axios.com/local/boston/2026/… via @axios & @stephmsolis

“The I defy the gods.” -College students in Boston after seeing “cars only” signs on Storrow Drive, channeling their inner Odysseus as they attempt an impossible journey (An early Storrowing captured by Mary Gay Tobin.)

I don’t see anyone writing about this yet, but an incredible obituary for Ben Affleck’s mom in the Globe today. What a life! legacy.com/us/obituaries/bos…

I’m obsessed with reading how others spend their $. The commenters are so deranged. She’s 25! When I was 25 I made $32k at the Boston Herald and had to use the health insurance for homeless people bostonglobe.com/2026/07/20/b…

Reminder that covid-conscious people have been absolutely begging for a national campaign to build and deploy air filters for like 5+ years now

Thank you @itsstephwill for taking the time to interview me for this piece for La Fronde!🎙️📰🎥 The link to the story is below...in it I give shout-outs to @ArtButSports, Dart Adams, the Boston Urban Archive, @milkkarten, @CJR's The Kicker podcast, @maxwelltani, @MattBelloni, @TruestKind, and more....

Never thought I'd see my name in a headline like this! To the kind souls at Editor & Publisher magazine....thank you for the vote of confidence :D

Goddammit

WE GOT THE JOB YALL 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Hearing from multiple sources that the Boston Fleet will be switching primary venues next season, leaving Lowell’s Tsongas Center for Boston University’s Agganis Arena. The Fleet have played six games at Agganis over the past two seasons, selling out 4 of the 6.

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A violent night in Boston. Early reports say at least two people were killed and 13 people were shot across the city. Every shooting is an assault on a neighborhood. Every victim has a family whose life is different now. The honest conversation is not “Boston is safe” versus “Boston is a war zone.” Both slogans do a disservice to the city. Citywide, Boston is still near historic lows. Through June 28, before this weekend’s violence was reflected in the weekly data, BPD reported 10 homicides this year, compared with 21 at the same point last year. Shooting victims were down from last year and below the five-year average. Shooting incidents were also down. Boston had 24 homicides in 2024. Last year, it had 31. That is still one of the lowest homicide totals in recent decades. That matters. But citywide averages do not tell the whole story. From 2018 to 2023, roughly 80% of shootings were concentrated in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, and Roxbury. About 4 in 5 victims were Black. So when someone says, “Boston is safe,” the honest response is: safe for whom, and where? A person in Beacon Hill can experience one Boston. A family in my neighborhood, Roxbury, can experience another. The police staffing issue is real. Boston has a legal benchmark of 2,500 officers. The department is reportedly hundreds below that. Retirements spiked after 2018. Forced overtime and burnout are real public-safety problems. But that is not the same as saying police hiring alone will solve concentrated violence. More staffing may help response times, officer wellness, and basic coverage. That matters. But it does not, by itself, explain why shootings are concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods and networks. The real question is bigger: What are we doing before the shooting? What are we doing after the hospital visit? What are we doing for the young person most likely to be shot or to shoot? Boston already has parts of the answer: hospital-based violence intervention, community violence intervention, focused deterrence, neighborhood outreach, resident coalitions, youth jobs, housing stability, and economic investment. Those programs need stable funding, real measurement, and long-term commitment — not one press conference after one violent weekend. The questions for Boston leaders should be: • Are we staffing police in a way that protects both residents and officers? • Are we investing enough in violence prevention in the neighborhoods where shootings are concentrated? • What funding is guaranteed when federal violence-prevention dollars disappear? • And are we building housing, jobs, opportunity, and trust in Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, and every neighborhood carrying the loss? The victims deserve more than slogans. Boston can be safer than it used to be and still unsafe for the families living closest to the violence. Police officers can need support and still not be the whole answer. Public safety is response, prevention, trust, and investment and needs to be sustained for years, not just argued for one news or election cycle.

Update on legionnaires cluster on Upper East Side: The # of confirmed cases has risen to 14. Health Dept. has expanded the impacted area to include everywhere east of Central Park b/n E.76th St and E.97th (zip code 10075 has been added, in addition to 10028 & 10128) If you live or work in this area, or have visited since late June, monitor for flu-like symptoms and contact a healthcare provider ASAP if symptoms occur.

America at 250: Does North Texas still deliver on the American Dream?dallasnews.com/news/article/… @dallasnews