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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker: Started calling "everybody I could think of" how to get masks after 3 million masks MA had "lost" to the feds in the port of New York to try to get more masks. Those masks had been ordered through BJ's, then the feds seized them.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker: Governor of Alaska helped with the mask shipment, arranging for the plane to land there so the crew could rest.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker said he called Jonathan Kraft with idea of treating Chinese mask purchase as "private humanitarian mission" to keep the feds from finding out. Ambassador Wong (Chinese UN ambassador) was "incredibly important" in arranging the deal and shipment.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Tragic death of friend, or maybe a lover, memorialized on Public Garden bridge
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2 years
Wu: Boston to require vaccination proof for indoor dining, fitness venues, theaters, sports events. Will apply to both patrons 12 and up and employees.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Sutters: State will post lists of who is getting the masks. Decisions will be made based on immediate Covid-19 and shortages - goal is to try to give "facilities in need" at least a 7-day supply.
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
And the Nazis just up and left
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Dear New Hampshire: Please get your own TV stations already.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Imagine if MA had a vaccine site that let you sign up just once and then get notified when a shot became available near you instead of being forced to try over and over and over. WV has a system like that - built by Everbridge, based in, um, Burlington
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Women will make up a majority of the Boston City Council for the first time in history and a far cry from just a few years ago, when Ayanna Pressley was the only woman on the council
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Petition: Replace the Columbus statue with the Rte. 1 orange dinosaur
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
The must-read Boston interview of the day: A manager at the Charlestown lobster company where the Southie guy tried to make off with a truckload of live lobster
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
History just made in Boston: Michelle Wu sworn in.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Jogging while Black on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
@ThreeCatsinaTr1 They will show up at Logan later today and be trucked to a Massachusetts state warehouse. NYC gets some and RI gets some, but MA gets the bulk of them.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
@Lmpnurse It's fake. Antifa is not going to risk getting lost in one of the 700 rotaries you have to go through to get to West Roxbury from the outside world.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Jamaica Pond right now.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Reminder: The NWS folks are all federal workers who are not getting paid right now.
@NWSBoston
NWS Boston
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Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, we'll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether we like it or not.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
That kid who grew up in a refugee camp, got accepted to Harvard, got detained at Logan for eight hours, then kicked out of the country is in Cambridge and will start classes tomorrow
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Adam Gaffin
6 years
Guy just stole $150 worth of frozen shrimp from the Stop & Shop on American Legion Hwy in Roslindale, pedaled away on a mtn bike; at these temps, he better hurry
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
City didn't repaint crosswalk on repaved Roxbury street used by kids to get to school, so grandfather went out and painted his own
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6 years
It wouldn't be a Boston winter without the ceremonial exchange of windshield pleasantries #jamaicaplain #thinveneerofcivilization
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker praises Chinese UN ambassador, among others, for helping to arrange that shipment of N95 masks. Mass. masks should arrive at Logan later today. NYC and RI will also get part of the shipments. In total, MA will get roughly 1M masks.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Sutters: By Monday, Partners Healthcare will have an N95 decontamination system in place at vacant Somerville KMart that will be able to sterilize 80,000 N95 masks a day. N95 masks can be run through the system up to 5 times.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
They rule the street.
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Antonio Regalado
5 years
Trio outside Harvard Square
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Esplanade eagle. Yep, an eagle on the Esplanade #backbay
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Sutters: "We've not yet received any ventilators" from the feds. How long ago was it Baker said the feds agreed to give us 1,000? In any case, MA has now increased its request to 1,400 ventilators.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Sign at the City Hall protest (via @cybah , who is having Twitter posting issues right now)
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Double eagle in West Roxbury #millenniumpark
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
How much of a loser do you have to be to give JP Licks counter people grief?
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Dropkick Murphys to local Nazis.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
"I wonder what the bars are doing in Boston?" Oh, shut up. They're all closed because this is the City that Always Sleeps, you spoon.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Gentlemen, start your storrowing engines: This is how you win a Pinewood Derby
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
WBZ puts Phantom Gourmet "on hiatus" because of Dave Andelman's ten days of BLM hate posts on Facebook
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Green Line, Red Line, Blue Line, Orange Line
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Why are they all standing?
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Lisa Kashinsky
1 year
Gov. @maura_healey and Lt. Gov. @KimDriscollMA on the MBTA #mapoli
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
New Yorkers keep telling us they never think about us ...
aside from the abominable design, this we ❤️ nyc publicity campaign is also very rude
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
2020 in a nutshell: Flaming trash in Brighton.
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Dane McGoldrick
4 years
A garbage truck on fire just off Comm Ave. on Gerald Rd. in Brighton @universalhub
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
The most secure car in Boston
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
AP calls race for Healey, 2 minutes after polls close.
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Today's award for most dramatic rendering of school buses goes to ...
@wbz
WBZ | CBS News Boston
1 year
Several schools have announced they will be closed Tuesday due to an incoming winter storm
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Shh, if we're very quiet, maybe they won't notice us.
@jdavidgoodman
J. David Goodman
5 years
AMAZON CANCELS PLAN TO COME TO NEW YORK "After much thought and deliberation, we’ve decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens" - Amazon spokeswoman Jodi Seth
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Adam Gaffin
7 months
Now that's how you storrow!
@NBC10Boston
NBC10 Boston
7 months
Traffic Alert. #Boston ’s Soldiers Field Rd. Eastbound. A truck is wedged under the Western Ave. bridge at Soldiers Field Rd. ⁦ @MassStatePolice ⁩ awaiting a heavy-duty wrecker. No injuries. 📸⁦ @pictureboston
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker: Latest models show between 47k and 172k cases in MA, with a peak between April 10-20.
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Oh, look, we're making the news around the world.
@BBCWorld
BBC News (World)
1 year
Moment ceiling collapses, nearly hits commuter at Massachusetts subway station
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Because I have no life, figured I'd wait at Forest Hills for the first Orange Line train with new car smell to pull in. But so far, all the trains still look like this:
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Protesters at Brookline abortion clinic got in woman's face as she entered and left this morning, so she punched one of them in the face. Now she faces charges. Legal-defense fund?
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Adam Gaffin
8 months
So we're supposed to call this thing X now? Raise your hand if you call the Hancock 200 Clarendon St.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
On Leonard Nimoy Day in Boston, Museum of Science announced as location for Live Long and Prosper statue
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Over Jamaica Pond just now.
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Adam Gaffin
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Outrage! Children using parks! The nerve!
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Breana Pitts
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The Parks & Rec Dept. in #Arlington says residents are complaining about daycare children constantly using the parks. They're proposing daycares/preschools in town pay anywhere from $3,000 to $5,000 in fees to use them (money will be used to maintain parks) Thoughts? @wbz
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Winna winna U-Haul dinna.
@WCVB
WCVB-TV Boston
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🚚💥 #Storrowing on Soldiers Field Road eastbound in #Boston tore the roof off this moving truck. @MassDOT said the bridge was inspected and no damage was found.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
N95 decontamination system uses concentrated hydrogen peroxide vapor to resterilize masks
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Alice Cooper's "School's Out" just started blaring from daughter's room: She just filed her last ever paper as an undergraduate. Her graduation was supposed to be tomorrow.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
How have I never seen a black squirrel in Boston before, like this one on Harrison Avenue? #southend
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
Nazis outnumbered bigly
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Baker: "The Krafts were terrific, they were a phone call away" and helped arrange the logistics. But the need for PPE doesn't end.
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3 years
State troopers self-defunding over vaccine mandate
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Pro-Covid moms in Dedham boycotting Ron's Ice Cream because a customer has raised funds for ice-cream cones for kids who get vaccinated. So if you're in Dedham or Hyde Park and want some ice cream ...
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Press conference to announce new MBTA general manager is now 12 minutes late.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Cop union says it isn't boycotting anybody, but it's calling on members to boycott somebody.
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Boston Police Patrolmen's Association (BPPA)
3 years
To be clear, we’re not looking to bully or boycott anybody. But, @yellowdoortaco should know that we like our martinis served with dignity and respect. As such, we’ll be encouraging our members to think twice before spending any of their money on any of Ms. O’Grady’s concoctions.
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Was working on a year-end story, but now have to deal with this Hilaria Baldwin thing about the influencer who claimed she was Spanish but now says she grew up in Boston, only it turns out she grew up in Weston, and that's not Boston. Where does it end? @megansarahj
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
I know prices have gone up, but ... At the Dedham Stop&Shop
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
The angry screamy lady who showed up at a couple of West Roxbury demonstrations to yell at parents of little kids just got fired from her job at a NH radio station for screaming at people speaking Spanish
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
Fire and furry
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Sure, we can laugh now, but let's not forget the time a boat actually blocked an intersection in downtown Boston (photo by @Chrispmullen )
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Twitter Boston signs off.
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Matt Miller
1 year
It’s been a ride
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
A train died on every single #mbta subway line this morning. Is there a prize for that?
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Adam Gaffin
11 months
Newbury Street to be shut to cars for 16 Sundays in a row; thoroughfares in five other neighborhoods to be turned into one-day street festivals this year
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
UMass Memorial employee was terminated after video surfaced of her in DC joining in an attack on a black woman videoing her and the others the night before the Capitol riot. She also got punched in the nose and was IDed by her own daughter
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Whoa, even Massachusetts?
@POTUS
President Biden
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Today, I am directing every state to prioritize educators for vaccination. We want every educator, school staff member, and child-care worker to receive at least one shot by the end of this month. It’s time to treat in-person learning like the essential service that it is.
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
Now it's a party: Vermin Supreme has arrived
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Simple request for @MassGovernor : Could you repeat questions during your press conferences for those of us at home?
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
The year in Storrowing: 2021
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
Just wait'll Mahty gets down theyah.
@alyellis
Aly Ellis
3 years
. @jrpsaki : “A big day for Boston in the briefing room.” @Gina_McCarthy : “It’s a big day for Boston every day.”
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
Wow, impressive showing by Nazis at the bandstand. Really wide perimeter set up by police
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Adam Gaffin
6 years
Does this mean everybody who bought a couch at Jordan's has to pay double?
@MLBONFOX
FOX Sports: MLB
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NO-HITTER! SEAN MANAEA! Manaea no-hits the Red Sox for the 1st no-no of the year.
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Adam Gaffin
7 years
Even more photos from today's protest, including the nerdiest one possible #copleysquare
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Adam Gaffin
3 years
There will be a ceremonial pot banging at Holy Name Rotary in West Roxbury at 2 p.m.
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Adam Gaffin
10 months
It appears to be working.
@schmuyle
GREENZO.bsky.social
1 year
I am officially putting a curse on the sports teams of Boston: No championships until ALL lines on the MBTA are fixed. Without a working public transit system, this is not a functioning city, and therefore, they do not deserve glory.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
Aw, loser trumpbois in their mamas' suburban basements think they can boycott Boston and make a difference.
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
Sutters: 78 of state's 700 nursing homes and similar facilities now have Covid-19 outbreaks.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
We have a new storrowing champion - outside New Delhi.
@Ashoke_Raj
Ashoke Raj
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#WATCH An @airindiain plane ✈️ (not in service) got stuck under foot over bridge. Can anyone confirm the date and location? The competition starts now👇
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Adam Gaffin
6 years
At the Hyde Park McDonald's (don't judge me) and the PA is playing "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes and a table of teens is singing along and it's adorable
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Adam Gaffin
1 year
Rosie Ruiz would never have won her race if the Green Line were like this back then.
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Adam Gaffin
2 years
On the bright side, the Mystic River doesn't usually make the national news.
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Adam Gaffin
5 years
Fortunately, nobody thought to search my trunk when I crossed the border back into Boston after picking up some things at the Dedham Stop & Shop this afternoon
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Adam Gaffin
4 years
As a UMass Amherst parent, watching news of all the other schools closing, tonight's sort of like waiting for Gary LaPierre to get to the end of the snow closing list.
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Adam Gaffin
6 years
Boston city council approves ban on plastic bags, to go into effect in 1 year if mayor signs. 12-0 vote.
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