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Terry Gentile Sauro opened her water bill this quarter to see a truly eye-popping charge: $4,566. She called the city, where workers told her the water was constantly running in her home in Newton\u2019s Nonantum village from May 17 through the end of June.<\/p>\n
\u201cConstant water running? How could that be?\u201d she told GBH\u2019s Marilyn Schairer.<\/a> \u201cI live in the house. I would hear the water running.\u201d<\/p>\n Turns out, her irrigation system had a cracked valve. In previous years, if a home\u2019s water usage suddenly spiked like that, someone in the city\u2019s water department would get in touch with the homeowner to let them know something was amiss. But last year the city installed new meters through Neptune, a company based in Alabama. Neptune will only notify residents of changes in their water use if they sign up through the company\u2019s online portal first. Sauro said she didn\u2019t even know that was an option.<\/p>\n Sauro\u2019s gotten her leak fixed, submitted the receipt to the city and filed an abatement asking them to reconsider the bill. Now she\u2019s waiting for a response. Schairer has more on the drip, drip, drip of money going toward increasingly high water bills here.<\/a><\/p>\n Four Things to Know<\/p>\n 1. U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Boston visited the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas last week<\/a> and came away from the experience saying the people being held there are \u201clow-level non-criminals,\u201d including children. \u201cWhy are they here at all?\u201d Pressley told GBH\u2019s All Things Considered. \u201cWe have to close Dilley, free the families and abolish ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n The privately-owned center first opened under President Barack Obama\u2019s administration, then closed during Joe Biden\u2019s presidency and reopened in 2025 under President Donald Trump\u2019s mass deportation agenda. \u201cI think that\u2019s the thing that really incenses me: this harm is not naturally occurring, it\u2019s manmade and it\u2019s also financially incentivized,\u201d Pressley said. \u201cPeople are profiting off of the unlawful detainment and deportation of children and families, and this for-profit system is for the separation of families, [and] is for child neglect, abuse and trauma.\u201d<\/p>\n 2. Chris Osgood, who worked as Boston\u2019s chief of streets under former Mayor Marty Walsh, is back on the job following the death of Louisa Gag,<\/a> a transportation planner who was killed last month when a truck driver hit her as she rode her bike. Mayor Michelle Wu appointed him to the role on an interim basis and assigned Tali Robbins, deputy chief of policy, to the streets cabinet.<\/p>\n This comes after advocates said the Wu administration had paused transportation projects, including one on Tremont Street where Gag died. \u201cIt\u2019s a bittersweet reality that this movement is happening in the wake of the loss of Luisa Gag,\u201d said Tiffany Cogell of the Boston Cyclists Union. \u201cEvery crash fatality deserves to be uplifted and amplified, and we are all pushing and looking forward to Vision Zero, where there will be no more crash fatalities.\u201d<\/p>\n 3. Brandeis University is home to the National Research Center for Parents with Disabilities, the only federally-funded research center in the country that studies parenting among people with disabilities. But the federal money that funds the organization, a $5 million grant, is scheduled to run out at the end of August, and center officials don\u2019t yet know if it will be renewed. Without it, the center will likely have to close.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not just removing another grant,\u201d said Monika Mitra, the Lurie Institute\u2019s director and a professor of disability policy. \u201cIt\u2019s dismantling a national resource that\u2019s [used by] thousands of disabled parents in the United States, service providers, researchers, policymakers, the families of disabled people [and] prospective parents.\u201d<\/p>\n
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