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Mayor Walsh doubled down on coronavirus restrictions Tuesday, following Gov. Baker’s lead in introducing new limits on gathering capacities for businesses and individuals to better confront the continuing sure in ... Read more.
Two local Dorchester-based unions – IBEW Local 103 and Pipefitters Local 537 – held toy drives this past week to help families facing hardship this holiday season. Local 537, represented by Business Manager Tom Kerr, to ... Read more.
Rep. Russell Holmes said Friday morning he intends to challenge Majority Leader Ron Mariano for control of the House if Speaker Robert DeLeo steps down, as expected, in the coming weeks, offering an alternative to DeLeo's ... Read more.
Gov. Baker announced opposition last week to allowing 16 and 17 year olds in Massachusetts to acquire abortions without consent from a parent or a judge, setting up a potential battle with the Legislature’s Democratic ... Read more.
Low interest rates and the work from home shift are contributing to a continuing “frenzy” of home-buying in Massachusetts and sales activity and prices both set records in November.
Sales rose nearly 25 percent ... Read more.
Affordable housing activists are calling on Mayor Walsh to strengthen the city’s Inclusive Development Policy (IDP) and urging state lawmakers to pass a home rule petition that would boost developer linkage fees.
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Boston is a leader on climate action. We’re preparing our communities for climate impacts like coastal flooding and heat waves, and we’re cutting the emissions that cause climate change to begin with. We’ve committed to ... Read more.
In 1966, a year after Martin Luther King Jr. came to Boston for the historic Freedom Rally march for fair housing, education reform, poverty reduction, and race equity, he went to Chicago to help local leaders fight ... Read more.
With Covid-19 bringing changes to teaching as we know it, Jamaal Bonnette, an art teacher at Bridge Boston Charter School in Roxbury, has been meeting the challenge of keeping kids engaged through virtual classes — a tall ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Tammy Tai is the new Deputy Director of King Boston, the non-profit organization that works to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She serves on the faculty of the ... Read more.
This Saturday (Dec. 19), Dorchester resident and fifth-grade student James Keough will feature in “Starry Night,” a filmed production of the annual Christmas Concert performed by the boys choir at St. Paul’s Choir School ... Read more.
Dorchester’s Carney Hospital has once again earned an ‘A’ for achieving the highest national standards in patient safety from The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit organization that collects and monitors hospital performance ... Read more.
This year’s holiday season offers us a chance to support local businesses and entrepreneurs who have seen their incomes and lifestyles disrupted by the pandemic. If you’re inclined to channel your spirit of giving toward ... Read more.
Now that the Food and Drug Administration has authorized emergency use of the first Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, health care workers will be among the first to get the vaccine.
Dr. Cassandra Pierre, an ... Read more.
As the first Covid-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot. The VA Bedford Healthcare system ... Read more.
Despite strong pushback, the MBTA is barreling ahead with significant service reductions for early next year, cutting the frequency of subway and bus trips, some commuter rail weekend service, ferry schedules, and more in ... Read more.
A recreational cannabis store at 517B Washington St. in Codman Square last Tuesday won unanimous approval to move forward from members of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeal.
Low Key Dispensary plans to convert an ... Read more.
Residents and business in Boston who pay for electricity are being informed by mail of a new city-sponsored program, Community Choice Electricity (CCE), that is aimed at improving Boston’s clean energy performance via a ... Read more.
Carney Hospital received its first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine today and began distributing them to staff members, who will receive the vaccine in a phased approach according to criteria outlined by the Centers for ... Read more.
The ceremony to swear in Judge Serge Georges to the Supreme Judicial court, like most other events during the pandemic, was scaled back from the usual fanfare that accompanies such affairs.
But Georges, who wore a ... Read more.
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