Morning Updates: Trump tells us why Trump is popular; MLB has a first
Good morning, Boston. A vestige of the city still stands in the West End, Donald Trump lays out his appeal to the public, MLB gets its first openly gay player, and the rest of the news you need to know.
Trump understands why Trump is popular: “The other candidates, he says, ‘have pollsters; they pay these guys $200,000 a month to tell them, ‘Don’t say this, don’t say that, you use the wrong word, you shouldn’t put a comma here.’ I don’t want any of that. I have a nice staff, but no one tells me what to say. I go by my heart. The combination of heart and brain. When Hillary gets up there she reads and then goes away for three days.’’’ (The New York Times)
A first in MLB: “For so long, [Milwaukee Brewers’ minor leaguer] David Denson desperately wanted to reveal to his baseball teammates that he is gay. He just never envisioned it happening in such impromptu and unstructured fashion. … ‘I wasn’t doing it to be brave. I just couldn’t hide it anymore. For them to be so accepting and want the best for me, it showed they are looking at me for my ability, not my sexuality.’’’ (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Saving the ocean via whale snot: “In the coming months, [Dr. Iain] Kerr plans to release the drone over the waters of Patagonia, the Sea of Cortez, and the Alaskan coast, where it will soar above the graceful sea mammals and collect data samples from the water spouted from their blow holes into the sky. … The key ingredient here, Kerr explains, is whale snot. The messy stuff is actually a gold mine for scientists, offering crucial data about whales’ DNA, pregnancy and stress hormones, viruses, bacteria, and information scientists may not have even fathomed yet.’’ (Boston.com)
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PSA for those moving apartments: “Mattresses have long been the bane of landfills, where they take up a disproportionate amount of space. Their metal coils also damage shredding equipment that breaks up trash before it’s burned at incinerators. Now, with landfills in Massachusetts rapidly running out of space and municipalities paying higher prices to dump their garbage, environmental officials are prodding cities and towns to recycle many of the estimated 600,000 mattresses that state residents trash every year.’’ (The Boston Globe)
An ode to Boston’s last standing tenement building: “Once it was part of an unbroken chain, a row of 30 brick walk-ups along the east side of Lowell Street from Causeway to Minot, a matching row behind it, another across the street. There were hundreds like it back then, crammed into the immigrant neighborhood known as Boston’s West End. Now it stands alone, slender and exposed, like a single key left on a battered piano. It is four stories high and three windows wide, unadorned except for its lintels. In place of lost neighbors, billboards have hung on its sides for years, like an orphan in sandwich boards.’’ (The Boston Globe)
The Goodbye: The city looks pretty different now:
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