By Lew Finfer
Special to the Reporter
Fifty years ago, Boston’s banks began a program with City Hall to increase homeownership for African-Americans. It was called the Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group (BBURG) and it was framed as a... Read more
Community Comment
By Mary Nee
We’re constantly on the go – long work hours, travel for business or pleasure, so we just aren’t home as much as we’d like to be. These and numerous other reasons have led to an increased need for pet owners to use boarding or... Read more
By Robert P. Connolly
Special to the Reporter
When Barry Mills addresses UMass Boston graduate students later this month, his job will be to impart wisdom at the first commencement to be held on the Dorchester campus since 2014. For the... Read more
By James W. Dolan
Special to the Reporter
Reconciliation. What a marvelous healing word. It implies humility, understanding, forgiveness, and renewal. It affirms the repairing of a breach in a relationship. Most meaningful relationships... Read more
By Roy Lincoln Karp
Reporter Contributor
We live in Orwellian times. Up is down, war is peace, and a report declaring that investigators could not exonerate the President for obstruction of justice becomes a rally cry of “NO OBSTRUCTION... Read more
By Mayor Martin J. Walsh
Every spring, we release our Capital Investment Plan, which funds the critical improvements to our infrastructure and facilities in Boston over a five-year period. It is a reflection of our priorities, and is guided by... Read more
By Lucinda Mills
Special to the Reporter
Boston Public School students are in the homestretch of the academic year. Under the best of circumstances, looming final exams and grades are a stressful time for students. Enter the complexities... Read more
By Veena Dharmaraj and Paola Massoli
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) recent Focus40 report outlining the 25-year investment plan to meet the transportation needs of the Greater Boston region makes no commitment to... Read more
Gun violence in Boston’s neighborhoods continues to take a heavy toll, with a disproportionate share falling on Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury.
According to the Boston Public Health Commission, the homicide rate for young black males in our... Read more
By Edward M. Cook
Special to the Reporter
I have a very visceral reaction to Peter Buttigieg running for president. In March 1985, I moved back to Dorchester, my childhood home, and on June 20 I was elected the co-chair of the Dorchester... Read more
To the Editor:
As a recently retired self-employed carpenter, I think it’s great that you gave such prominent coverage to Trades Woman of the Year Ziven Drake. (3/28 issue, Page 1, above the fold – “Ziven Drake, ‘Trades Woman... Read more
To the Editor:
Despite years of community input aimed at paring down Dot Block’s overwhelming size and promoting much more housing affordability plus high employment standards for this enormous project, it was voted through... Read more
By James W. Dolan
Special to the Reporter
What has happened to our once glorious republic? After surviving a civil war, we managed to heal the wounds and move on to what would become the American century. It now seems to be eroding under... Read more
By Edward M. Cook
Special to the Reporter
“I am from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party,” said presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2003. I am also from that wing. I want to shout that quote at the Democratic Congressional... Read more
By Roy Lincoln Karp
Special to the Reporter
There are times when our nation has needed the voices of young people to be woken up from a moral slumber, to be shaken from a state of political complacency. One cannot think of the struggle for... Read more