Published November 19, 2010
Good morning! We’re following a status hearing for Aiden Quinn, the T operator facing charges in last year’s Green Line crash. He may change his plea to guilty. (Update: No change of plea.) And the city of Boston’s official, 50-foot Christmas tree is scheduled to be delivered to Boston Common this morning.
Here’s the news on a cold Friday in Boston:
The state’s high court ordered a shakeup of the probation department. An independent counsel found widespread corruption in the department, which was first reported in the Boston Globe. The court ordered the commissioner fired. (Globe)
Sen. Scott Brown introduced a measure to let states opt out of President Obama’s health care plan more quickly. Sen. John Kerry opposes the waiver. (Globe)
The Mass. jobless rate dropped to 8.1 percent last month. That puts us right in the middle of the national pack. (Herald)
Mass. has banned caffeinated alcoholic drinks. Retailers must remove them from shelves immediately, including those cans of Four Loko that people are now hoarding. (WBUR)
A Cambridge priest once accused of stalking Conan O’Brien is charged with harrassing a WCVB host. Rev. David Ajemian, 49, will be arraigned today. (Herald)
The MFA expansion opens to the public tomorrow. A review in the New York Times declares: “Five years after breaking ground, the new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts here is opening on Saturday, and it’s a wow.” (New York Times)