Three Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday, March 2

1. The first of four public Boston Public School budget hearings will take place tonight at , 144 McBride St., 5-6:30 p.m. is the budget hearing and 6:30-8 p.m. is the School Committee meeting.

2. Boston City Councilors John Connolly and Ayanna Pressley are offering a resolution at today's that Celtics great and civil rights leader Bill Russell finally be honored with a statue in Boston. Russell was recently honored by President Barack Obama with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor for an American civilian. Obama had suggested a statue be set in Boston.

3. Do you take the 39 bus (and who doesn't, at least some of the time)? Tonight there's a meeting about . 6:30 pm at the l.