Though crime has dropped in an impressive way on paper over the last six weeks, D-4 Capt. Steve Sweeney said it doesn’t mean that there is any shortage of frustration on the beat – including good investigations that have been…
Author: Seth Daniel
Construction Return in Boston to Be Incremental Through May
The Walsh Administration is sending out a set of timelines this week as preliminary guidance to construction companies as to how essential construction projects will return throughout the month of May. Since April 27, all construction sites allowed to work…
Downtown, Fenway Remain Low in COVID-19 Cases Even With Expanded Testing
Aside from the anomaly of homeless residents being tested in the South End at the shelters, the downtown neighborhoods continue to report some of the lowest numbers of COVID-19 cases in the area. The Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) put…
Re-Inventing Education: BPS Remote Learning Plan Starts This Week, Many Elements Will Remain in the Future
With more than 40,000 ChromeBooks now delivered and in the hands of students all over Boston, Supt. Brenda Cassellius told the media Boston Public Schools (BPS) are ready to roll out Phase 2 of remote learning that will play out…
As revenues drop, City Budget leaders prepare for losses
One of the bread and butter cash flow generators for cities and towns throughout Massachusetts – including the City of Boston – is local excise taxes on things like hotel rooms and meals, but with the crash of those industries…
‘We Can’t Shelter in Place’: Commissioner Gross Says Police Will Not Run from the Fight
The Boston Police Department (BPD) has a tremendous legacy and history of working through just about every situation – from terrorist bombings in 2013 to urban rioting in the 1960s – but there are no officers still on the rolls…
WSANA Reports Uptick in ‘Bad Behavior’ from Mass/Cass Folks as City Focuses 2.0 Efforts on COVID-19
As the City’s Mass/Cass 2.0 team has pivoted entirely to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the population on the corridor, residents from the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association (WSANA) reported a noted uptick in the instances of…
Tech Teens: Brother and Sister Reach Out to Help Others With Technology
Being tremendously helpful in this pandemic has been as easy as clicking a button for Elizabeth and Thomas Garity – or rather showing others how to click it. The siblings from the South End have found a lot more time…
South End Cases Remain High While Downtown-Area Stay Below Average
The numbers of cases and the infection rates in the South End continue to remain high based on increased testing with the homeless population, but overall the downtown neighborhoods have remained below the city average in cases and infection rates.…
South End Researcher Helping Team Look for Unique Treatments, Vaccines
When a new N95 surgical mask decontamination unit came rolling into Boston from the federal government, all of the paperwork and studies accompanying it said it worked as advertised, but for medical professionals, they turned to researchers in the National…