@Singernews
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This "Paul Singer" is the Investigations & Impact editor at GBH News, NOT the billionaire vulture capitalist. Come for the news; stay for the typewriters. [email protected]
This weekend was the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Also, the Kansas City Chiefs played in nearby Foxboro. What’s the connection? Read all about it here https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-12-14/boston-tea-party-looks-back-on-the-indians-who-stormed-the-boats-250-years-ago
TIL that on May 4, 1723, Boston selectmen, concerned that "great numbers of persons have very lately been transported from Ireland into this Province," voted to require all people arriving or recently arrived from Ireland to register with the town clerk... because "if due care not be taken" they could become a town charge or "be otherwise prejuditial to the well fair & prosperity of the Place."
@overholt yep - we corrected after you pointed it out. Thank you very much for alerting us!!
@overholt absolutely - is there a typo in our story??
Fascinating local political story from my @gbhnews colleague Liz Neisloss -- https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/06/05/forced-to-quit-over-racist-remarks-an-everett-politician-plans-a-comeback
That thing where you have several big but unrelated news stories in the works figuring they will be done in a kind of well-paced sequence… and then it turns out they all crash on top of you at more or less the same time. #bestlaidplans
@jhayden I haven’t heard them - but I have heard ABOUT them
@Hey_Beth thanks for the tip! I have no idea (yet) how Mastodon works.