Morning Updates: The Beijing 2022 Olympic song sounds a lot like a ‘Frozen’ ballad
Good morning, Boston. Uber is expanding a new program in Boston despite protests, “Free Brady’’ shirt sales surge, Donald Trump’s Harvard diss, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
The right to petition: “Cambridge cabbies took a page from their Paris comrades’ playbook on Monday, staging a strike to protest Uber and other ride-hailing companies that are stealing a growing number of riders.’’ (The Boston Globe) And the right to be ignored: “Starting Aug. 13, Boston will be the fifth US city to offer UberPOOL, an on-demand carpooling option that allows two customers going in the same direction to share a ride and split the cost. … UberPOOL, launched in San Francisco last year, accounts for half of all Uber rides in that city, [Uber Boston’s general manager] said.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Obituaries move toward the truth on heroin overdoses: “It is typically cloaked in euphemism: He died suddenly. She died unexpectedly. He died at home. Deaths caused by drug overdoses are rarely acknowledged in print by the people who are left behind. But now, as a growing heroin epidemic continues to steal the lives of addicts across the country, more families are making the difficult choice to acknowledge what happened openly and honestly.’’ (Boston.com)
The surging business of “Free Brady’’ shirts: “They’re selling great,’’ said Chris Wrenn, founder of Boston-area sports apparel company Sully’s Brand, of the T-shirts in support of Brady. … “The day the decision came down, it was a stellar day for sales,’’ Wrenn said. “It was definitely more than half [total sales].’’ (Boston.com)
After getting pranked, Donald Trump rips Harvard: “The students who perpetrated this are fraudsters and liars, but frankly it was a waste of only a few minutes,’’ a Trump spokesperson said. “Mr. Trump attended the great Wharton School of Finance, a school that has more important things to do.’’ (Boston.com)
Beijing 2022 Olympics song sounds awfully familiar: “An official song of the Games, ‘The Snow and Ice Dance,’ [critics] asserted, is suspiciously similar to ‘Let It Go,’ the wildly popular ballad sung by Idina Menzel in the Disney animated film Frozen.’’ What do you think? (The New York Times)
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