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A coalition of 17 educational and community organizations, including the NAACP Boston Branch, signed on to a letter last week opposing a BPS plan to close schools in Boston, including Dever Elementary on Columbia Point. ... Read more.
Congressman Stephen F. Lynch denounced President Trump and his administration during a two-hour virtual town hall meeting for his district held via Zoom ... Read more.
Mayor Michelle Wu continues to draw a firm line of defense of the city's immigration policy following her testimony in D.C. last week, while acknowledging the power Congress has to follow through with threats made to ... Read more.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell urged lawmakers to increase funding for her office nearly 9% over what Gov. Maura Healey recommended, pitching the extra dollars as necessary to respond to what she described as " ... Read more.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has the proposed Everett soccer stadium on her mind, and will be at a Knights of Columbus hall in Charlestown Tuesday night to hear from community members about the project.
The gathering ... Read more.
The city has more liquor licenses to issue to businesses who want one, but officials are seeing little to no interest in applications from Mattapan, one of the targeted neighborhoods that has historically been underserved ... Read more.
Mayor Wu is urging the company that owns the Carney Hospital campus to reverse a decision to terminate lease agreements for doctors currently caring for patients in a medical office building behind the closed-down ... Read more.
Fairlawn Estates, a large rental housing development in Mattapan, has been purchased by a Boston company that plans to keep all of its 347 units “affordable” with the help of a $10 million grant from the city of Boston. ... Read more.
South Boston’s annual parade, a dual celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and Evacuation Day that will kick off on Sun., March 16, will begin an hour-and-a-half earlier than past years as elected officials and parade ... Read more.
A 21-year-old Georgia man has been arrested and charged in a 2023 murder on Columbia Road, according to Boston Police. The 33-year-old victim— Daniel Mayers of Haverhill— was shot to death on May 22, 2023 just before 5 p. ... Read more.
A state-led commission focused on the re-construction of the Morrissey Boulevard corridor from South Boston to Neponset has issued its “draft” final report for public review. The ... Read more.
With unusually high levels of uncertainty circling around the federal funding that buoys more than $16 billion of the state budget, Gov. Maura Healey's finance secretary said Thursday that federal cuts would be too big of ... Read more.
Police arrested a 16-year-old from Mattapan on Wednesday evening (March 5) after a brazen shooting incident on Erie and Ellington Streets that upended the neighborhood from Columbia Road to Codman Square for two hours. ... Read more.
Last week, a new angle in the debate over White Stadium’s merits opened up with reporting and analysis focused on the Wu ... Read more.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended the city's approach to immigration enforcement, and called for congressional action to address problems with the nation's immigration system, as she and other mayors faced an intensely ... Read more.
Mayor Wu won a ringing endorsement from the city’s largest public safety unions— the Boston Police Patrolmen Association (BPPA) and the association’s affiliated EMS partners— during a press conference held at the BPPA’s ... Read more.
On Sept. 8, 1975, as many as 10,000 people showed up on City Hall Plaza to oppose a plan for expanding desegregation of the Boston Public Schools (BPS). Coinciding with the run-up to city elections, Boston’s largest ... Read more.
A Bowdoin Street restaurant is hoping to be one of several businesses selected to receive a full liquor license in an upcoming second round of awards as part of an official push to expand opportunities in underserved ... Read more.
To the Editor:
Your article “Is Affordable Housing Unaffordable?” (Feb 26) overemphasizes the role of the Inclusionary Development Policy/Inclusionary Zoning (IDP/IZ) in creating affordable (income-restricted) ... Read more.
The dozens of Peace Walls in Belfast, Northern Ireland, make up a series of barriers that separate predominantly Catholic neighborhoods from the Protestant neighborhoods. They are not for the most part what they once were ... Read more.
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