By: Mary Rose Fissinger
The Boston Public Library (BPL) has two faces-and one of them is getting a serious face lift.
Metro, Column
All Is Not Well With The Red Sox
By: Bennet Johnson
Opening day for the Boston Red Sox is just a week away. The team hopes to defend its World Series title by starting a series in Baltimore. Everything seems to be great in Red Sox Nation, right? Wrong.
Metro, Boston
First Annual Boston Design Week Hosts City Events
By: Sarah Moore
More than 80 events, including demonstrations, speakers, open houses, and cocktail receptions, are taking place throughout Boston this week as part of a new citywide festival.
Metro, Politics
Walsh Looks For Boston To Have Greater Clout In Casino Debate
By: Bennet Johnson
Walsh’s administration made a statement in two letters to the state’s gambling commission on Wednesday, which asserts that Boston is a host community to a Mohegan Sun casino project at Suffolk Downs in Revere and to a Wynn Resorts proposal in Everett.
Metro, Politics, Column
Listening to Voters
By: Ryan Towey
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, WCAS ’09, launched his first of a series of town hall meetings called “Mondays with the Mayor” this week, designed for him to hear the needs of the average Boston citizen.
Metro, Column
Restaurant Week Needed Its Rebrand
By: Maggie Powers
Hopefully, the re-branding of Restaurant Week to Dine Out Boston will take the best parts of the event and distill them slightly so that it once again becomes an occasion that the city celebrates.
Metro, Business
Spritz Unveils New Text-Streaming Technology
Spritz is a new technology aimed toward increasing reading speed while retaining comprehension by eliminating the part of reading that takes up the most amount of time-actually moving one’s eyes from word to word.
Metro, The T
Boston Business Owners Laud Efforts To Modernize Public Transit
Starting on Friday, March 28, the MBTA will launch its Late Night Pilot Program, in which all subway and Key Bus routes will run service for an extra hour and a half on Fridays and Saturdays, and businesses are calling it a good move.
Metro, Column
Parade Perspectives
Irish or not, the Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade gave everyone an excuse to celebrate, a little excessively, together—and I look forward to joining the green adorned masses in 2015.
Metro
Tolman Releases Plan To Reduce Sexual Assaults On College Campuses
Warren E. Tolman, former Democratic state senator and attorney general hopeful, wants to change the way Massachusetts colleges and universities address sexual assault if he’s elected.
