RadioBDC Logo
Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) | Silversun Pickups Listen Live

Weather Finder

Forecasts for 3,000 cities worldwide
Search by name: Enter city only, not city and state

Community

HELPFUL LINKS
Contact the Globe
City & Region staff
617-929-3100
localnews@globe.com

Blogs

Candidates propose ‘People’s Pledge’ for US House race
Two of the five declared Democratic candidates for the congressional seat set to be vacated by Senator-elect Edward J. Markey have proposed a pact that would attempt to limit outside spending in the US House race. State Senator Will Brownsberger and state Representative Carl Sciortino have both called for a “People’s Pledge” in the race to fill the Fifth Congressional District seat.
Meet the Mayoral Candidates: Keeping First Night alive
Can the mayor of Boston save First Night? And what would Boston be without music and ice sculptures at the turn of the new......
Starts & Stops
A do-it-yourself approach to bike ridership data
Ari Ofsevit, who runs the blog "Amateur Planner," was underwhelmed by state data on bike use on Longfellow Bridge. So he hatched a plan to conduct his own ridership count, Ninja-style.
White Coat Notes
Dr. Terrie E. Inder to lead newborn department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Terrie E. Inder will be chairwoman of the newly named Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. ...
The Big Picture
Editors note:

Articles of Faith

Religious leaders working on interfaith service
Religious leaders are working with the governor's office to develop Thursday morning's interfaith service in memory of the Boston Marathon bombing victims.

In the Cards

Wynn wins landslide in Everett
EVERETT -- City residents sent an emphatic message Saturday: They want Wynn.

War and Peace

As fighting season heats up, US commander says newly trained Afghan forces passing test -- so far
The annual summer fighting season is now well underway in Afghanistan, with nearly daily suicide bombings, assassinations, and other high-profile attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups. But one thing appears decidedly different this time around to Lieutenant General Mark A. Milley, a native of Winchester who is now on his third tour and commands the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command: the Afghans are fighting back, mostly on their own.

Science in Mind

Two planets discovered orbiting stars in a crowded cluster
In May, NASA scientists announced that the space-based Kepler telescope that has been scouring the sky for habitable worlds was in trouble. Part of the mechanism used to position the telescope had failed. Scientists were quick to praise the mission and note that even if it were over, they had more than enough data to analyze. The latest discovery from the data beamed back by Kepler came Wednesday, with the detection of two planets smaller than Neptune orbiting stars in a cluster about 3,000 light-years away.

Vacation request / Downshifting / Thanks for understanding
A quick update from your devoted blogger......
All news blogs

Massachusetts news

  • Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards

    BOSTON (AP) -- State lawmakers have approved a requirement that photo identification be placed on electronic benefit transfer cards for most welfare recipients. ( AP 07/01/2013 4:27 PM )

  • Disgraced former FBI agent apologizes to family of Whitey Bulger victim

    Disgraced former FBI agent John Morris grew emotional on the stand in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger Monday as he looked at the family of one of the gangster's alleged murder victims and apologized for what he has acknowledged could have been his "indirect" role in the killing. "Not a day goes by that I don't pray that God...  ( 07/01/2013 4:25 PM )

  • Powerful thunderstorms move through Mass.

    BOSTON (AP) -- Powerful thunderstorms moving though Massachusetts have caused steet flooding, downed trees and scattered power outages. ( AP 07/01/2013 4:25 PM )

  • Lawmakers approve $34B Mass. budget

    BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts lawmakers approved a $34 billion state budget that includes additional aid for cities and towns and enough funding for the University of Massachusetts to avoid a tuition increase in the upcoming academic year. ( AP 07/01/2013 4:23 PM )

  • Who was that masked man? Who cares?

    Ugh. "The Lone Ranger," Gore Verbinski's bloated, overlong, $250 million western comedy is like watching an elephant tap-dance in your living room: Everything gets trampled and the dancing's not very good. ( 07/01/2013 4:21 PM )

  • Tornado warning issued for parts of Mass.

    The National Weather Service issued four tornado warnings this afternoon for various areas in the northern part of Massachusetts as a parade of strong thunderstorms marched northeast across the state ( 07/01/2013 4:20 PM )