Grand jury indicts BPD Officer O’Malley
May 20, 2026
On Sunday, all of the Daily Table stores will close, a decision made by the board of directors. It’s a heartbreaking call.
It was September 1972. I had just arrived in Boston as a freshman at Boston University. As a Catholic, I attended Mass at BU’s Newman Center, where I heard about the lettuce boycott in support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
The death and destruction of the Los Angeles fires has caused me to think about what devastation our region of the country needs to fear, and whether we’re prepared. If the Achilles heel of southern California is the Santa Ana winds, ours is a major hurricane at high tide.
City Councillor Frank Baker recently raised the specter of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland as he objected to a new map of Boston City Council districts.
