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The Boston City Council is expected to begin discussions this month about the next steps in governance reform for the Boston School Committee, which is currently appointed by the Mayor. However, Boston residents voted ... Read more.
It is now February 2023 and since 1991, Boston has been the only municipality of 351 without an elected School Committee.
In 2021, Boston voters sent a resounding message that the 30-year experiment is over when ... Read more.
The definition of insanity, the saying goes, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. In Boston, we’ve tried both electing and appointing a school committee. Neither got good results for the ... Read more.
Boston firefighters responded to 20 Leston St. in Mattapan around 8 p.m. on Tuesday for what turned into a two-alarm fire.
The Boston Fire Department ... Read more.
On an ancient hill in Dorchester, all signs pointed to the future Monday when city officials broke ground on what is only Boston’s second new fire station in 40 years. The new Meetinghouse Hill Fire Station got underway ... Read more.
The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by Rainbow Adult Day Health Care Center to open a new facility at 60-64 Hill Top St. in Dorchester.
Rainbow, which ... Read more.
Marty Walsh, President Biden’s labor secretary and a Lower Mills resident, will leave his federal post to head the NHL’s players union, according to multiple media reports Tuesday. The news was first reported by ... Read more.
An alleged Morse Street gang member arrested on federal drug charges on Friday was charged Monday with murdering Tyler Lawrence, 13, of Norwood at Babson and Fremont streets in Mattapan on Jan. 29, the Suffolk County ... Read more.
When current high school seniors at the Boston Community Leadership Academy (BCLA) were recruited years ago for the new BCLA-McCormack 7-12 School on Columbia Point – they were promised that they would move onto a fully ... Read more.
Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco’s third-floor corner office on the UMass Boston campus looks out over dirt mounds surrounding a massive gash, where there once was a science building and a windswept plaza built atop a ... Read more.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB), the city’s largest youth-serving nonprofit organization, held its 2023 Annual Dinner at the Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport to celebrate the organization’s staff and kick off its ... Read more.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester (BGCD) has named Pooja Ika as this year’s New England Women’s Leadership Awards (NEWLA) Event Chair. The event will be held on May 15.
Ika is the founder and CEO of ... Read more.
Rebuilding Together Boston, a nonprofit, recently teamed up with the builders from “This Old House” to fix up a home off Humphreys Street in Uphams Corner.
The no-cost repairs were made to the two-family home of 75 ... Read more.
Dorchester has been the focus of political conflict in Boston over the past few months. The City Council redistricting was mostly fought within our borders, and a proposal to transform a nearly empty Comfort Inn into ... Read more.
The perils of invoking ‘character’ in citing a neighborhood’s growth
To the Editor:
“It’s out of character with the neighborhood.” How often have you heard those words in fights over new ... Read more.
Chef Kwasi Kwaa and restaurateur Biplaw Rai’s partnership project with Historic Boston, Comfort Kitchen, opened for business last Wednesday inside Uphams Corner’s historic comfort station, bringing what they call “global ... Read more.
The Blue Hill Avenue Action Plan team started its engines on Jan. 24 with the first of several monthly meetings set by city of Boston officials to discuss transportation transformation along Blue Hill Avenue. The subject ... Read more.
After eight years on the City Council passing ordinances and holding hearings, a mayoral campaign focused on telling voters that she had plans to fix the problems facing Boston, and 15 months as mayor, Mayor Wu should ... Read more.
Like many of us, I have felt so heavy, ridden with guilt, and grief-stricken over the tragedy in Duxbury that resulted in the alleged murder of three children by their mother, Lindsay Clancy, who reportedly was suffering ... Read more.
For a moment in January, talk of Marty Walsh as the new White House chief of staff was in the air. So was Marty Walsh, with no internet access.
The labor secretary was flying from London to Boston after spending a ... Read more.
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