There’s A Fee For That…But Only For You… The city of Boston will require restaurants in the North End to pay a $7,500 fee to set up outdoor dining. The catch to this is that this requirement only applies to restaurants in the North End. The fee does not apply for restaurants in any of Boston’s other neighborhoods. Not too many local restaurant owners are happy about this. Do you think the fee is fair? Dan speaks to North End restaurant owners about this added fee.
Keeping The Mask On. While Massachusetts lifted their state-wide mask mandate in public schools back on Feb. 28th, some cities, and towns such as Northampton, MA have elected to keep up their mask mandate until further notice. Meanwhile schools on Cape Cod ditched their mask mandate and surprisingly saw a decline in their Covid-19 rate. With Covid cases trending downward in the Commonwealth, where do you come down on mask mandates?
Peace Maker or Putin’s Ally? Today President Biden spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping for nearly two hours with a main focus on the war in Ukraine. There has been concern from the White House over the budding relationship between Russian President Putin and Chinese President Jinping. Beijing has appeared to be neither fully supportive of Russia’s war nor completely opposed either. What was the takeaway from today’s meeting between the U.S. and China? Will Jinping be a peacemaker or Putin’s ally?
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