Neighbors,

The city has asked all residents to "Shelter in Place". Shelter in places which basically means stay inside, lock doors, and do not let in any other than clearly identifiable law enforcement officers. 

Wondering what's going on with the military helicopters and such going on?

They are doing military training exercises, not to worry!

Joint federal military training exercises will take place within and around the Boston area between July…

Amendment #737 has cleared the house. If it makes it through the senate, the BPL will get $.359 per capita for the Library of Last Recourse line item. This should be close to what the BPL projected overall from the state for the year but does not include other state sources. So we will see what that means at the next Trustees Meeting: May 10, 2011 - 8:30 AM - Central, Rabb Lecture…

Ask for the stenographic machine record of the last public meeting of Boston City Council. More complete than minutes, easier to read through than watching the video, budgeted for with public funds, the stenographic machine records Councilors' deliberations, all the words of the Councilors in the public meeting for public feedback, comment, questions, suggestions. Support open government, An Open Boston City Council …

Neighbors,

I'm inviting all NFN members from all neighborhoods to join this, our new citywide network. 

To get things going, I'm posing the first of a series of questions (the next are up to you - add a blog post now):

This question is: What should we do as neighbors this spring and why?

Specifically, I am looking for examples of actions we can take, behaviors we can change,…