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  With public health at stake, many Boston hospitals struggle to meet the city’s air pollution goals by Anastasiia Boltkova, Hayes Botnick, Quyen Nguyen and Ying Niu, CommonWealth Beacon July 6, 2026 ON A WEEKDAY MORNING in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, patients hurry between hospital buildings for appointments. Parents push strollers toward Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctors and nurses rush as ambulances arrive outside the emergency department. At other nearby hospitals, just blocks away, the everyday whir of activity continues: Babies are born, broken bones are mended, and patients with respiratory problems, who are especially vulnerable to the effects of pollution, shuttle to their doctors. Within sight of Boston Children’s Hospital — and many of the other medical facilities — another structure rises above the neighborhood, smoke billowing from its massive chimney. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) supplies electricity, steam, and chilled water to Children’s an...

  Spent a morning at Boston Public Library going through old issues of Mission Hill Good News on microfilm when an old poem appeared. This is late 1970s.

UPDATED - Not actually prepared (honestly, would have gotten haircut if I knew this was coming), but I stood with my neighbors on this one - Compact Living (Sponsored by Prince Albert Canned Sardines) is a hypercool new thing. Where young and old live in something about the size of a hotel room. Truth be told, most of these things end up as hotel rooms anyway in the Disruptive Age of AirBnB. Now, It is a decent idea on paper (see below), but the density here is none of it in the manner to maintain an anchored community with kids, for example, that play on the playgrounds, populate the Little League, go to the local schools. Which was Mission Hill's saving grace - a Village in a City Verticalism is not the only way to go. Who sees Boston as Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Blade Runner? Or San Francisco - that formerly Wonderful Wonderful Town. Your humble servant appears here... https://t.co/liodXOzBbl — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) January 24, 2020 Okay maybe it is a good thing...

Last week I was able to attend the annual Mission Hill Little League Trophy Award Ceremony and Dinner. Red Sox pitching great Bill Monbouquette was there as the featured guest speaker. My friend Dennis Pultinas (Marquette, Class of 1974) had asked me to come by to do a little A/V work, featuring "Monbo Time" by the Remains, a tribute to Monbouquette. Bill was a great inspiration speakers. The kids were great as always. I am posting here Dennis's heartfelt introduction to Bill, and a transcription of some notes I took. Introduction for Bill Monboquette: Mission Hill Little League October 14, 2012 As an 8 yr old boy growing up in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1961, the Boston Red Sox were very important to me.  The morning paper would have in the bottom corner of the front page what they called “the Scoreboard”.  It listed the scores of all the games played the day or night before.  Checking this out was the first thing I did when I woke up in the morning.  The...