Cambridge has public toilets. Somerville doesn't. Here's why.
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Cambridge has public toilets. Somerville doesn't. Here's why.
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regular occurrence here, sadly
A view from a helicopter, showing a portion of the roof of Boston City Hall and a crowd of protesters in the plaza.
To my surprise, the State Police response to my public records request included more than an hour of video taken from the helicopter over the protest at the federal building on January 10.
Potentially of interest, there were -four- people on the roof of city hall. They operated the drone.
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The AG found National Grid inflates your customer charge with costs that don't belong there. Asked them to show the math.
They said they couldn't.
They could when they raised your rates 57%.
I filed an amendment to make them show you. The House wouldn't record the vote. Four stood. Out of 160.
"LAPD illegally shared License Plate Reader data with ICE over 100 times in just one month" is a good reminder that a departmental policy is not as secure as (a) not having mass surveillance, and (b) not having our camera feeds accessible by DHS/Feds/ICE.
In related news...
thanks, I didn't need to sleep tonight anyways
Proud to endorse @burhanazeem.bsky.social for State Senate. A first rate person & first rate political leader in #mapoli.
also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks
I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd
"HE SAYS YES TO THE TREES"
yeah, this exactly
Still snowing, and wind is bad enough that the drone couldn't keep up, but a brief shot from the sky of the current state of the world near Porter Square in Somerville, MA as of 5pm on Monday.
99% certain it's from the "davis sq village", who originally used the pre-"liar" version of this graphic
On April 14, a deportation officer with ICE’s enforcement and removal operations, requested a “list of all sentenced inmates” from Suffolk County sheriff’s office. He got the list 12 minutes later.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
🚦Very glad to see momentum finally building to allow camera-based traffic safety enforcement (with critical privacy protections). Somerville and neighboring cities have been advocating for this legislation for many years - let’s get it done.
Some local media news:
@politico.com is ending Mass Playbook as @kellygarrity.bsky.social joins the Globe to write a new politics newsletter
"So when people say our police department doesn’t work with ICE, that’s just not true. There’s no city in the country where they would never work with ICE"
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
"Let’s create a city budget this year that will help our most vulnerable. Let’s prioritize funding for legal services that can help immigrants that are targeted by the federal government and an emergency service that people can feel safe and comfortable using."
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“A scandal involving a State Police homicide detective has led to finger-pointing between the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and defense attorneys, raising questions about who knew the details of a fatal 2023 crash and why it took over two years for certain facts to surface.”
I want to believe (and want you to believe) a better Massachusetts is possible so we're running for State Senate! Join us next Wednesday February 25th 6pm at the Armory as we kick this election off!
Last Friday, Gov Healey committed MA to a 3 year, multimillion-dollar contract with OpenAI, to deploy its AI tool for all 40,000 executive branch employees. She did this based on the recommendation of a task force dominated by execs w financial ties to OpenAI.
Read more at: bit.ly/3OdOC5B
The great (and Boston-based!) documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman has died. What a body of work he has left us. www.indiewire.com/news/obituar...
Welcome to the Cambridge Somerville Independent, on Bluesky at @csindie.bsky.social. You can find it online right here: #journalism csindie.com
Beacon St crosswalk in front of the hotel project, where one side of the sidewalk is covered in snow
alternatively, walk in the snow
