Civics
Boston officials will have a bigger hammer as they seek to ensure sidewalks are shoveled and snow isn't pushed onto city streets. Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday morning signed a bill that increases the maximum penalty for snow-removal violations in Boston... Read more
Here’s a summary of the headlines and story lines you can expect to see in our pages in the coming months:
All Eyes on Columbia Point
Two of the biggest headlines in 2017 could be generated by the machinations of the powerful interests still circling... Read more
The reinvention of City Hall Plaza into Boston Winter—complete with ice skating, beer hall and shopping chalets — may be a downtown destination, but this innovation has Dorchester’s fingerprints all over it.
So it was quite fitting that the first kids to... Read more
Equity, both racial and transit, was the focus of a community meeting last Saturday at the Perkins Community Center where residents voiced their dissatisfaction with the Fairmount Line commuter rail corridor that runs through neighborhoods with some of... Read more
Verizon plans to construct a fence along its Enterprise Street facility’s eastern property line to help dampen work noise that residents of abutting historic properties say has seriously disturbed their quality of life.
Caretakers in both the historic... Read more
Thoughts of summer will be in order on Saturday when the Dorchester Running Club’s second annual “Halfway to Dot Day 5k” road race kicks off at 9 a.m. at the Hallet Street entrance to Pope John Paul II Park.
Runners will follow the Neponset Greenway trail... Read more
Members of the Columbia-Savin Hill Civic Association planning committee like the design but worry about the density of a 21-unit building proposal that would replace the Scally & Trayers Funeral Home on Pleasant Street.
The planning committee gave... Read more
Boston Police have teamed up with kids and teens from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Dorchester to produce a new song and video that seeks to find common ground between “black and blue.”
The track — titled “One Beat for Peace” —features lyrics by BPD’s... Read more
Despite a strong economy and booming population growth, high costs of living and low rates of housing production in Greater Boston are disproportionately impacting those already living in poverty, according to a Boston Foundation report released Tuesday... Read more
Alonzo Foster
This week I joined thousands of fast-food, airport, home care, and other underpaid workers in a day of action to demand a $15-an-hour minimum wage and the right to join together on the job. This was my first strike.
I never thought that I... Read more
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