“This city has never been safer, period.”
It’s the sort of pronouncement that makes slightly superstitious newsroom editors and probably a lot of cops, prosecutors, and savvy citizens a bit queasy with the thought of jinxing a run of good luck... Read more
White Stadium from above looking towards downtown Boston. Robin Lubbock/WBUR photo
No big city mayor is... Read more
Above, a view of present conditions inside White Stadium. Robin Lubbock/WBUR photo
Revelations about the... Read more
City workers who are credibly accused of criminal fraud and stealing are routinely suspended and often fired, just like private sector employees would be if they were accused of the same misconduct.
Councillor Tania Fernandes Anderson, who has... Read more
It has been four months since the state-assisted euthanasia of Carney Hospital, the scrappy, once-... Read more
Anyone who has volunteered for a politician knows that it can be hard to get people to engage, even when you show up at their front door. But canvassing – or door-to-door contacts – is still an essential part of retail politics.
Election day,... Read more
As voters begin to cast ballots here in Boston this weekend in advance of the Nov. 5 election, The Reporter enthusiastically endorses Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to be the next president and vice president of the United States.
This is not a... Read more
Last week’s brazen double shooting inside a Four Corners barber shop, which left 20-year-old Elijah Ricardo Clunie of Dorchester dead and a second man wounded, has... Read more
There has been a fair bit of criticism levied here and in other quarters for the shortcomings of the recently ended state legislative session, and the executive branch’s failure to protect Carney Hospital from closing last weekend. But there have been... Read more
“Hi. You are off all week and will be paid under the WARN Act. If anything changes, you will be notified.”
It took just three sentences in a text message sent on Monday to advise a longtime Carney Hospital health care worker that – as of that... Read more
After weeks of claiming that she could “do nothing” to alter the fate of the imperiled Steward hospitals, Gov. Maura Healey last Friday announced that her administration would seize control of St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton and turn over... Read more
On Tuesday evening, several hundred people packed into Florian Hall for... Read more
A US bankruptcy judge in Houston issued a ruling on Tuesday afternoon that clears the way for Steward Health Care to close Carney Hospital – and... Read more
Above, Padma Singh, an emergency room medical assistant at Carney Hospital, held up signs... Read more
President Biden speaks from the Oval Office on July 14, 2024. White House photo... Read more
