Morning Updates: City inspectors hit the streets ahead of Allston Christmas
Good morning, Boston. Absentee city councillors call for major raises, the annual great student migration begins as inspectors scope out cramped rooms, and the rest of the news you need to know today.
Isn’t it ironic? Don’t ya think? “The Boston city councilors pushing hardest for significant raises, arguing that their service has been ‘undervalued,’ have had the poorest attendance at City Council hearings since January 2014, a Globe analysis shows. Council President Bill Linehan, who has been the public face of the battle for six-figure salaries, attended 15 percent of hearings, the fewest of anyone on the 13-member body.’’ (The Boston Globe)
Freshmen, rejoice: “We asked current students and recent graduates to give us the inside scoop on their colleges before the school year begins.’’ Here are the best pieces of advice for new students at Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, BU, and more from Boston’s treasure trove of universities. (Boston.com)
Inspectors travel the city ahead of Boston’s big move-in day: “During one stop at 74 Chester St. in Allston, city employees were concerned that too many tenants were crowding into the dwelling. Les Christos, a 30-year-housing inspector constable, began to check the windows, and their locks, and noticed a broken sash cord. A stain in the ceiling. Then he noticed there was no stove. The tenants told him they haven’t had one for two months, and that the building manager had told them cooking is overrated.’’ (The Boston Globe)
A chance at Deflategate redemption: “On Aug. 11, Jane Rosenberg was just a federal court sketch artist. Three weeks and one admittedly awful pastel depiction of Tom Brady’s chiseled visage later, she still is that — albeit one who has faced a firestorm of criticism for the crime of not making the NFL’s prettiest quarterback pretty enough. With Brady due back in Judge Richard Berman’s courtroom again tomorrow morning, Rosenberg will get a chance to redeem herself.’’ (Boston.com)
NY Post Reporter goes undercover as a bare-breasted painted lady: “Of course, lots of solo male travelers want a picture. They are almost always polite, complimentary and good tippers. Lots of women stop to offer encouragement — ‘Just want to say we support you!’ ‘Love you guys, keep it up!’ I’ve never had more compliments in my entire life. This is not how I expected to feel standing in a thong for seven hours in 85-degree heat in Times Square. (New York Post)
The Oliver Sacks reading list: “Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and acclaimed author who explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,’’ using his patients’ disorders as starting points for eloquent meditations on consciousness and the human condition, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 82.’’ (The New York Times)
The Goodbye: Scenes from Donald Trump’s fundraiser at Ernie Boch Jr.’s home this weekend.
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