Politics
The three-family home at 9 Inwood St. appeared to reflect on the outside the alleged drug activity that was going on inside.
The bank-owned house’s roof needed work. The porch was in disrepair. A shopping cart was parked on the property, and below the... Read more
Over the last 16 months, the City Council and redistricting activists have pumped out enough maps to fill a small atlas. This week, they added a few more to the mix.
The new maps – one submitted by City Councillors Rob Consalvo and Frank Baker and another... Read more
(Updated, Oct. 3, 3:15p.m.) — Future Boston public school students will have the option of going to one of the four schools closest to where they live while current students would be grandfathered to where they attend classes under the existing student... Read more
The ‘uh-oh’ moment for Boston politicos in the disastrous Martha Coakley campaign of 2010 came on the Sunday morning before the special election. Even before most citizens could begin to rub the sleep out of their pre-Mass eyes, the calls started coming... Read more
More than 100 residents, elected officials and members of the Boston Police Department turned out for a Monday evening meeting at St. Mark’s Church to dicuss mounting concerns about prostitution along Dorchester Avenue. The meeting was moderated by... Read more
To the Editor:
I am an extremist. In a September 20 opinion piece in the Dorchester Reporter ("City gets reform"), Mayor Menino defended the reforms in the recently settled agreement between the City and the Boston Teachers Union, but stated that "the... Read more
Parents, take your pick. Boston School Department officials this week outlined five proposals that would move the city away from a three-zone set-up for assigning students to schools beginning with the 2014-2015 school year at the earliest.
The proposals... Read more
In January I made a promise to our city’s parents and children. Our families would like a school choice system that passes the common-sense test. Today’s system does not.
In the Bowdoin/Geneva area of Dorchester, where families speak 15 different... Read more
Former Menino administration hands are putting together an October fundraiser at the Boston Harbor Hotel. The fundraiser is scheduled for Oct. 11.
“Please join Mayor Thomas M. Menino and his team as we celebrate our success, past and present, and look... Read more
The chemist at the center of a massive evidence tainting scandal at a state lab handled drug samples for 1,141 felons currently serving time in a state prison, jail or county house of correction, according the attorney leading the probe.
David Meier,... Read more
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