After a pay dispute led to a work stoppage in late May, courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, dismissed cases of indigent defendants who had no legal representation for 45 days.
The city passed a law cracking down on food delivery companies rather than the reckless drivers creating chaos on sidewalks and streets.
Plus: a new NFL stadium, a Boston Marathon record, and Shoresy (huh?)
Cities become affordable when lots of new housing is built, not when a larger percentage of a small amount of new housing is made "affordable" by regulation.
American history is often a story of people leaving to try to build their voluntary utopias.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
Plus: Who are the editors' favorite vice presidents of all time?
I shouldn't have to spend so much money on an accountant every year. But I don't really have a choice.
Plus: Segregationist Christmas parties, California cops, Israeli gun licenses, and more...
Grant Williams breaks down the math: "$54 million in Dallas is really like $58 million in Boston."
The city's old-school rent control scheme worsened housing quality but had no effect on housing supply. Mayor Michelle Wu's new rent control law will likely have the opposite effect.
The justices unanimously agree that the city was not endorsing the flags, and that therefore it couldn’t exclude religious organizations.
The world isn't made a better place by treating individual athletes as appendages of their governments.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seems hellbent on making things difficult or impossible for city restaurants.
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that tests the limits of expression on government property and religious toleration.
On government curation and government speech.
Plus: Quarantine requirements for international travelers, Fed Chair Jerome Powell says it's time to stop calling inflation "transitory," and more...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' proposed gas tax holiday and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's fare-free bus plan will both require taxpayers to subsidize infrastructure they don't use.
The city's solicitation of public input on the demolition of shacks, sheds, and boarded up homes is an invitation for NIMBYism.
Do you have a license for that refrigerator stocked with free food?
The city said that food-packaging regulations stand in the way. That's not true.
Top justice rules that trying to push a criminal case forward over prosecutors’ objections is a violation of separation of powers.
An attempt by the district attorney to drop charges against nonviolent protesters was overruled.
Crime, dysfunction, and corruption in Beantown
Police unions fight any and all efforts at transparency, accountability.
"America's largest civic experiment to close the gender wage gap" is launching in Boston. It won't work.
Mayor unwilling to sign contract due to potential cost overruns.
How a "big dog" bus company worked with regulators to crush a competitor.
Sometimes cultural shifts take 20 years.
Boston hasn't even been awarded the 2024 Olympics yet, and many of its citizens are already having their civil liberties violated.
Former New England Patriot is already awaiting trial on murder charges
Some say it could've helped his opponent if voters knew the national teachers union was pushing for Walsh
Martin Walsh reportedly doesn't think cops needs the guns
No explosions reported
Facing criminal charges
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