EAST BOSTON — The mid-day, cloudless blue sky over Central Square in East Boston last Thursday was the perfect setting for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to announce a major five-year capital spending initiative. It was an auspicious time to let the public know that the city is to ready to get to work, attending to the things like new schools, renovated libraries, sidewalks, streets and public parks.
Amidst the dug-up sidewalks, Jersey barriers, and construction equipment in chaotic Central Square, the mayor was on hand to announce an ambitious $2.08 billion capital spending plan. Just a week before, the mayor released his $3.14 billion city operating budget that focuses on the day-to-day operations of city government.
Not satisfied with leaving the destruction and devastation of 31 other National Football League teams in their wake, the reigning Super Bowl champion New England Patriots on Wednesday night were sufficiently provoked to lay waste to another combatant: The New York Times.
With the team visiting the White House for a meet-and-greet with President Donald Trump, the Times elected to take a poke at the champs in the form of a disparaging tweet that was apparently intended to use them as a pawn in promoting a narrative about Trump's supposed unpopularity:
