🫢 Mayor Michelle Wu's plan to hike commercial taxes to offset big potential increases to homeowners' taxes looks dead in the water. (Herald)
Senators are questioning why Wu claimed residential taxes would spike upward of 33% when state revenue data says it'll only be a 10% increase this year.
Karen Read's retrial, originally set to begin next month, has been delayed and could be rescheduled to April. (WHDH)
🎭 Two locally-raised actors nabbed Golden Globe awards nominations yesterday:
JP and Sudbury native Jeremy Strong for best supporting actor in a movie for "The Apprentice."
Roxbury's Ayo Edebiri got another nomination for female actor in a TV comedy or musical for her role in "The Bear." She won last year.
Rhode Island's CVS removed all photos of its executive team from its website last week after a gunman killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York. (Globe)
ICYMI: Former Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy — who President-elect Trump wants as Transportation Secretary — was on the 1997 season of MTV's "The Real World" set in a converted Beacon Hill firehouse. (Globe)
