It's becoming a little bit more difficult to book a hotel in Massachusetts.
That's because hotels across the state are not only being used to house migrants, including illegal immigrants, on the taxpayers' dime due to the state's right-to-shelter law, which lacks a residency requirement, but they also aren't accepting reservations from anyone else.
Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether.
The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an anti-climate-change activist, who argued for encouraging what he called "non-gas-pipeline alternatives" (at 11:30 of the video of the meeting).
