Customs officials in Boston ask police for space for detainees
The Boston office of US Customs and Border Protection has recently asked local police departments to make more bed space available for the short-term detention of noncitizens awaiting removal from the country, a concern for advocacy groups who fear the agency is building up jail space to facilitate President Trump’s immigration crackdown. The letter by Chief Officer Daniel B. Joyce of the Boston office says that detainees would be held while awaiting the next available flight to leave the Unite..>> view originalMap: 10 of the busiest spots for bikes in Boston
A new municipal study highlights some of the busiest spots for cycling in Boston. Data released this week by the Boston Transportation Department show that the busiest spot the city identified was the area around a Back Bay intersection, near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Beacon Street, that was found in a separate study to be the most frequent spot for collisions involving cyclists. Advertisement How busy that area is may help explain why so many crashes have been reported th..>> view originalMany Boston public schools are said to have bad air
A city report says that more than half of Boston’s schools are plagued by poor or deficient air quality, which studies have linked to low student achievement and high rates of asthma.The findings, released Wednesday, are based on an examination of schools’ ventilation systems or the lack of them, and other factors that can affect air quality, including the inability to open windows. Advertisement Air quality itself was not measured. The examination revealed that more than half of the school..>> view originalICA plans major expansion — across the harbor in East Boston
The Institute of Contemporary Art is planning a major expansion — across the harbor in East Boston, in a large dilapidated industrial space once occupied by a copper pipe shop.The museum’s new waterfront satellite will be filled with immersive artworks, and admission will be free to the public — a rarity in the Boston area. And if all goes according to plan, visitors will be able to dash there by water taxi from the ICA’s home base in the Seaport. Advertisement The $10 million renovation pro..>> view originalSole abuse survivor on a Vatican sex-abuse panel quits
The only abuse survivor on Pope Francis’ commission to address the clergy sexual abuse crisis resigned Wednesday, citing a “shameful” lack of cooperation from some within the Vatican bureaucracy.The departure of Marie Collins puts pressure on Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley — the archbishop of Boston and a new member of a Vatican department handling the abuse crisis — to marshal support for the commission inside the church’s fractious power structure. Advertisement Collins’s resignation highlights..>> view originalWill Boston ever see the good old David Price?
Sign up for Boston Globe's 108 Stitches newsletter and be entered to win a four-pack of tickets to the Red Sox home game on August 28th. Get everything baseball, straight from the desk of Alex Speier. Mon-Fri during the season, and weekly in the offseason. COMMENTARY Playing nine innings while fully believing stardom arrives for Andrew Benintendi this summer … 1. I believe Chris Sale is going excel with his new Sox just like he did with his old ones. I believe Rick Porcello will be very good..>> view originalIn Obama's last days, his aides tried to leave clues about Russian ...
WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald Trump and Russians — across the government. Former U.S. officials say they had two aims: to ensure that such meddling is not duplicated in future U.S. or European elections, and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.U.S...>> view originalPedestrian killed on Interstate 93 in Boston; lanes closed
BOSTON (AP) - A pedestrian has been struck and killed by a vehicle on Interstate 93 in Boston, causing major traffic backups during the morning commute. State transportation officials say the pedestrian was hit around 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the northbound lanes of the Southeast Expressway between Exit 15 and Exit 16 in the city's Dorchester neighborhood. The right two lanes of the highway were closed between Columbia Road and Andrew Square during the investigation, but all lanes were reopened at..>> view originalEverything that happened in Donald Trump's address to Congress
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump challenged the orthodoxy of both political parties in a mind-bending and contradictory way that perhaps only he could deliver. Trump asked Democrats expand what is already the largest military in the world and approve tax cuts, even though they will be very unpopular with the party’s base. This might be expected of a Republican president who is talking to a Democratic party that is out of power in the US House and Senate. Adv..>> view originalBudgets shrink at 49 Boston public schools
Boston’s struggling Brighton High School will lose about $1 million under the latest Boston Public Schools budget proposal, according to school department data. Brighton is far from alone: 48 other schools also face funding declines of varying amounts. “I’m terrified as to what these cuts are going to do to my school,” said Hibo Moallim, a Brighton High senior and member of the Boston Student Advisory Council, in a Banner phone interview. While her school has yet to announce how it will try to ..>> view original
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