After years of repairs to the Tobin Bridge, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has started discussing whether the structure will actually be viable for generations to come.
On the cusp of potentially beginning an initiative petition process to end the MCAS graduation requirement, the MTA is not the organization it once was the increasingly larger, stronger union is transitioning into an ever-more active legislative agent.
City Councilor Erin Murphy’s double-barreled approach to tackling the “public health crisis” at Boston's Mass and Cass was praised for giving businesses there a break, but knocked for assertions that street cleaning equipment was spreading diseases.
“I filed this hearing order to address what happened at the (Boston Housing Authority) Saturday,” Boston City Councilor-At-Large Erin Murphy told the Herald in a Tuesday text message. “It will come up at the June 28 meeting but I formally filed it with (the) clerk today.”
A recipient of $2.4 million in federal community project funding, the New England Aquarium will be using that money to upgrade its 45 exhibits, President and CEO Vikki Spruill said during a Tuesday news conference.