Drivers who park in Charlestown in violation of street cleaning parking bans will now face $90 parking tickets (up from $40) but will no longer risk having their cars towed.
The change is part of a pilot program aimed at increasing compliance and easing motorist concerns about having their cars towed to distant lots.
Martin J. Walsh became the first big city American mayor to ask his citizens not to vacation in the Dominican Republic after that country recently threatened to expel some 200,000 people of Haitian origin who were born after 1929, according to WBUR.
State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester), a first-generation Haitian-American, joined Walsh in asking residents not to visit the Dominican Republic, which occupies two-thirds of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Haiti occupies the other third.
