Civics
Two buildings in Mattapan undergoing renovation this month are in the spotlight as the city continues to scramble to find space to house homeless people who were displaced by the abrupt closure of shelter facilities on Long Island in October when Mayor... Read more
Four prospective buyers are vying for what could be the cheapest piece of real estate in the city: a former comfort station on Columbia Road that the city of Boston put on the market this fall. The minimum bid for a successful proposal was set at just $... Read more
Vote is 5-4; dissenter questions quorum count
A breakthrough in the decades-long impasse over the South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade organizers’ exclusion of gay and lesbian marchers appears to have been reached on Monday night after a petition by the... Read more
Mayor Marty Walsh is California-bound as he and backers of Boston’s Olympic bid officially make their case to the US Olympic Committee on Tuesday, Walsh’s office confirmed today.
“The mayor will be traveling to California to participate in a meeting with... Read more
John Steinberg, an archaeologist in UMass Boston’s Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research, and his students spent the first week of December searching for evidence of stables and other outbuildings on the former Fowler-Clark farmstead... Read more
Codman Square Health Center Incorporated: April 1975 ceremony. Pictured, l-r, State Rep. W. Paul White, City Councillor Larry DiCara, Doris Brown, John MacNeil, Bill Walczak, Secretary of State Paul Guzzi, Craig Wall, Mona Scantlebury, and Charles Murphy... Read more
The road to securing a pardon is a steep climb for ex-convicts in Massachusetts. In the first seven years of Governor Deval Patrick’s tenure, only five pardons— out of a total of 326 requests— made it past the the Advisory Board of Pardons, an arm of the... Read more
Mark Wahlberg’s petition seeking a pardon for his 1988 conviction for a violent robbery and assault on Dorchester Avenue has triggered a sharp backlash since it was first reported by New England Cable News last Thursday.
The 43-year-old actor and... Read more
One of my favorite songs is “Georgia on My Mind.” Over the last few months, and especially over the past few days, I could hear myself humming … “Fields Corner is on my mind.”
Last month, VietAID celebrated its 20th anniversary, an event coincident with... Read more
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Wednesday announced that he had installed new Licensing Board members in an overhaul of the body that regulates alcohol, food, and hotels within city limits.
The new members are Hyde Park attorney Christine Pulgini, Lisa Maki,... Read more
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