Boson, Massachusetts

High Winds Blow Through Boson - "I knew I was too lucky when I found a parking space downtown" - Boson Man Gets Ticket For Overnight Parking - 31 Dec 2019

2020 Boson Mayoral Democratic front-runner candidate for mayor delivered some hard truths to striking cat litter miners in Boson's East Blue Hills clay pits. "Those jobs aren't coming back," Councilor Strickland announced to the gathering of miners who had organized a support rally at the National Miners Union hall in Boson, Massachusetts. "Because of climate change, the demands of Third World countries, and the need for racial equity, white working class people must learn to live with less.  Black Americans in the working class must also learn to live with less.  This is an unpleasant message, but the Democratic Party is willing to tell the truth.  Your lifestyle of comfort and high wages and a wasteful consumption are over," Strickland pronounced as many in the crowd grumbled and ushers went up and down the aisles telling union members to be quiet and let the powerful city councilor speak. Councilor Strickland explained later that miners need to ...

A view from Boson's Seaport on the Harbor District (Formerly Slumtown)

Boson, Massachusetts: The strike by East Blue Hills National Union of Miners Local 19 entered the eleventh week without an end in sight.  Workers voted to strike just before Halloween and brought a festive air to the first weeks picket lines with miners kids joining in their Halloween costumes.  But now the cold winds are blowing down off Big Blue and the strikers have turned bitter. "The company treats us like cave men," said John England, a spokesman for the union.  "We're like the 'cat's paw' that is supposed to scrap this material out of the mountain with minimal thought or reward. Just as cats have claws as their only weapon, workers have strikes as our most powerful weapon." The workers are mining bentonite clay used in some kinds of cat litter.  The company spokesman said that the company offers wages that are well above minimum wage and offers health insurance that meets all the requirements of the Affordable Care Act...

A petition to cancel Boson's famous New Year's Eve fireworks and use the money to fight global warming and climate change has topped 260,000 signatures, but Mayor Marty Welsh says the show will go on. Boson is spending $600,000 on this year's fireworks display — funds that the Change.org petition argues would be better spent on combating global warming by funding supporting volunteer firefighters and farmers suffering through a brutal drought. The massive fireworks display on Boson Harbor "may traumatize some people," the petition says, "as there is enough smoke in the air." Toxic smoke haze from the Boson Seaport district (formerly Slumtown) has blanketed the Boson waterfront and other major Eastern Massachusetts cities for weeks. "2019 has been a catastrophic year on Planet Earth for Floods and Fires," the petition states. "All people should say NO to FIREWORKS." Mayor Welsh said the city  "appreciate the...

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Boson, arise! The long dark night is over, Faint in the east behold the dawn appear; Out of your evil dream of toil and sorrow Arise, O Boson, for the day is here. From your fields and hills Hark! the answer swells: Arise, O Boson, for the day is here. Long, long have been the anguish and the labor, Dark, dark the clouds of unbelief unrolled, Dreadful the night when no man trusted neighbor, Shameful the nightmare-greed of gain and gold; Yet from fields and hills Hark! the song now swells: Arise, O Boson, for the day is here. By your young children's eyes so red with weeping, By their white faces aged with want and fear, By the dark cities where your babes are creeping Naked of joy and all that makes life dear; From your wretched slums A voice of pity comes: Arise, O Boson, for the day is here. By all your workshops where men sweat and sicken, Foredone to death, in toil and hope deferred, Where cheeks are flushed and pulses star...

Jack rabbits overrun  After Animal Rights activists and volunteers helped bring wild Jackrabbits to Half Moon Island in Quincy Bay the animals began to proliferate.  Almost every island in Boston Harbor now has numbers of the hungry rabbits.  Nearby in Quincy and Boson the rabbits are eating there way through peoples gardens and even lawns.   . Close to 40 jack rabbits huddled against the cold Tuesday afternoon last week, looking like snow-covered hillocks rising from an open field across from North Quincy Shore Drive in Boson. Nearby, Joe Kovacs was playing fetch with his dog, Winston – a terrier, about the same size as the 2-foot-long jack rabbits, also known as hares. . “They’re just kind of cool,” 24-year-old Kovacs said as the white-furred animals sat, and occasionally scurried across the snow. “But I could see how that would be annoying if they were in your yard.” . These droves of hares have invaded a new...

Boson Massachusetts tired old fishing district informally known as 'Slumtown' because of the run down look of the neighborhood where many of the houses date back to the mid 1850's when the docks hosted whaling vessels. The area, as with most of the Eastern Massachusetts area, has seen a rise in the price of homes as the US dollar buys less and less property.  It now takes a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a house almost anywhere in the greater metro area.  People from around the country, around the world, to work in Massachusetts even if the native population is not increasing.  The resulting influx of  people who work somewhere in Eastern Massachusetts and may be priced out of the most desirable areas.  So, once downtrodden neighborhoods begin to see new people moving in.  This has been true of Boson since the beginning of the town in 1630.  Some of the low income residents of the former Slumtown are moving to the nearby Poorchester....

Living a carbon-neutral life isn't always easy, but with hard work, dedication, and lots of self-loathing, it can be done. Here are ten ways you can reduce your carbon footprint at this very moment: 1.) Kill yourself. This is a surefire strategy to make your carbon footprint as small as possible. Just make sure to do it in a carbon-neutral way, like running yourself over with a Prius. 2.) Kill a friend or family member. Don't just kill yourself: go the extra mile as an earth-loving, conscientious citizen. Kill as many people as possible to save the planet! 3.) Recycle your heretical Joel Osteen books by using them as doorstops instead of burning them. We know it's tempting to burn that copy of Your Best Life Now that your well-meaning grandma got you for Christmas last year, but resist the urge. Instead, repurpose your Osteen books as a doorstop or paperweight. 4.) Have an abortion. See number 2. 5.) Cut your breathing back to just once...