Warning of "economic hardship" and a possible "constitutional crisis," Attorney General Andrea Campbell delivered a message Thursday for President Donald Trump, who her office has already sued more than half a dozen times...
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Roxbury 8th grader Sapna Malhotra, who attends the John Eliot K-8 in the North End, took home top honors in in the 17th annual citywide spelling bee held on March 15 in Rabb Hall at the Copley Library. She won by ... Read more.
Dorchester native Cherrelle Norris has joined the staff at Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester as chief communications and marketing officer.
She comes to BGCD from a similar role at Harvard University Health ... Read more.
Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell will deliver the keynote address at UMass Boston’s 57th commencement ceremony on May 29, the school announced last week. Campbell, a Roxbury native, is the first Black woman to hold a ... Read more.
Massachusetts voters already indicated their support for empowering the state auditor to probe the Legislature at the ballot box last fall, and a new poll found they now overwhelmingly want Attorney General Andrea ... Read more.
A group of student-athletes who support the Wu administration’s push to renovate White Stadium spoke out last Thursday (March 13) during an online forum organized by pro-stadium residents in Dorchester, Roxbury, and ... Read more.
People need science and innovation to live. Whether you’re dealing with a temporary virus or a life-threatening cancer, when you seek medical attention you want to know: What are my options?
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Commuters on the Red Line’s Braintree branch got a speedy surprise last week. According to the MBTA, trains began traveling 50 mph on certain stretches between Braintree and JFK/UMass stations at the start of service ... Read more.
State Sen. Nick Collins, who last year was one of the most vocal opponents of Mayor Wu’s plan to shift property taxes more onto commercial payers, said he is friendlier to parts of a newly filed relief package meant to ... Read more.
A “public workshop” to discuss the recently published study by the Morrissey Boulevard Commission will be held in person this week on Thursday (March 20) from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express Boston ... Read more.
Arson attempt reported in Fields Corner
Boston Police are investigating what looked to be an attempted arson last month at the former Blarney Stone bar at 1505 Dorchester Ave. in Fields Corner, ... Read more.
Mayor Wu has appointed Stan McLaren, the former president of the shuttered Carney Hospital, to an open seat on the Boston Board of Health, according to a statement from her office last Friday. The appointment comes as Dr ... Read more.
For most of his life, Jose Fernandez considered St. Mark’s church a required destination that disrupted his Sundays – a place he went only to make his mother happy. Now a young adult, he sees that the parish’s youth ... Read more.
State and city officials are cheering a financing milestone in the redevelopment of the Mary Ellen McCormack public housing complex in South Boston, a project that features the replacement of all 1,016 public housing ... Read more.
Mayor Michelle Wu called Jamaica Plain "the place to be" Wednesday, as she joined mayoral challenger Josh Kraft and potential candidate Tom O'Brien at a celebration for "The Lyndia," a new building that developers say is ... Read more.
Twelve members of the Mayor’s Youth Council were special guests at Monday’s Celtics-Jazz game at the TD Garden, thanks to IBEW Local 103 and the National Contractors Association (NECA) of Greater Boston.
“After an ... Read more.
Alongside the noise of cars zipping by on the Southeast Expressway, a more tranquil scene could be found at Pope John Paul II Park last Thursday afternoon as “peace lanterns” made by students who attend Dorchester’s Saint ... Read more.
The Holmes Innovation School Science Fair that took place in the school’s gymnasium last Thursday (March 6) marked a major improvement in science application, student confidence, and completed projects at the school, said ... Read more.
On the night of March 4, 1776, Patriot officers gave the order to their 2,000 or so men: No one was to speak above a whisper. As American batteries opened up on British positions in and around Boston to cloak the long ... Read more.
A developer who is proposing to build another phase of housing on 10 acres of undeveloped land at the former Boston State Hospital site in Mattapan has signed an agreement with state officials and said he intends to buy ... Read more.
City officials met with business leaders along the Columbia Road corridor last month to discuss the ongoing development of an “action plan” focused on a 3.2- mile stretch of the roadway between Franklin Park and South ... Read more.
A new program at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School is exposing students to potential career paths through school-wide programming connecting high schoolers to the professional world.
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Three alumnae of Cristo Rey Boston High School have been named to the 40 Under 40 list by the Cristo Rey Network National Alumni Association, which recognizes outstanding alumni from the Cristo Rey Network’s 40 schools ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Is Boston reneging on its commitment to make our streets welcome and safe for all?
Under Mayors Menino, Walsh, Janey, and Wu, Boston has steadily added a few miles of dedicated bus and bike ... Read more.
For over half a century, significant strides have been made to increase homeownership among minorities and marginalized communities in the United States. From the Fair Housing Act of 1968 to decades of HUD initiatives and ... Read more.
A few stray observations while the bumbling fool and Putin tool that some of your cousins elected ... Read more.
