Morning Updates: Sox still sliding, $15 minimum wage planned for New York
Good morning, Boston. The Red Sox couple their losing ways with high-priced beer, the Olympics creak toward more transparency, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Boston 2024’s original Olympic bid to be released in full: “The chapters have to do with Boston 2024’s proposed budget as of last year, and the political and public support it said it maintained at the time. … Boston 2024 issued a redacted version of the documents in January, saying some information was withheld because it included ‘proprietary information.’ Four of the six full chapters were later dug up through public records requests.’’ (Boston.com)
New York set to create $15 an hour minimum wage: “The labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country. On Wednesday, it paid off for the people who started it. … They argued that taxpayers were subsidizing the workforces of some multinational corporations, like McDonald’s, that were not paying enough to keep their workers from relying on food stamps and other welfare benefits.’’ (The New York Times)
So a Mainer and an Italian walk into a brewery: “Giovanni turns to me and says, ‘We gotta put some lobster in the beer we’re brewing,’’’ [Oxbow brewer Tim] Adams said. “I was slightly taken aback and hesitant, but I couldn’t say no to him. The guy traveled all the way from Parma to Maine.’’ Thus begat Oxbow’s Saison dell’Aragosta, a lobster-flavored beer. (Boston.com)
False advertising: “Boston has a habit of implying potholes have been fixed when they haven’t, according to an examination by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting of the city system called Citizens Connect – an award-winning mobile app and website meant to increase transparency and accountability in government. A sampling of 78 cases found nearly half reported closed did not meet the city guidelines for fixing potholes.’’ (NECIR)
The Red Sox drop their seventh in a row: “I’m not sure there’s a precise moment when the last shred of hope was lost, but I suspect if there was an official death knell it occurred before Albert Pujols’s third home run during the Angels’ suffocating doubleheader sweep of the Red Sox Monday. What they should do for the remainder of the season is obvious: Anything and everything necessary to get this roster in proper working order for next year. That begins with a purge.’’ (Boston.com)
Can you even watch the Sox without drinking, though? “Once again, the price of [the smallest cheap] beer available at Fenway Park is more expensive than at any other MLB stadium. Just as it was earlier this year. And last year. And the year before that. And the year before that. And the year before that.’’ (Boston.com)
The Goodbye: Let’s remember the better times with these forgotten All-Stars
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