Local activists and city officials gathered in Nubian Square on June 18 to celebrate the topping off of 75 Dudley Street, a new building that will provide 15 affordable condominiums.
State education Secretary Pedro Martinez (shown here) last week announced proposed new graduation requirements that are meant to replace the MCAS exam voters opted to reject as a graduation requirement in a 2024 ballot referendum.
From left, Latoya Gayle, Sen. Nick Collins, and Juwan Skeens at 1st Suffolk District candidates’ forum at Berklee College of Music on June 9.
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Residents were asked for input on parking zone restrictions and furnishings inside the stadium, which remains under construction.
The contest for First Suffolk Senate got more interesting last week when Mayor Wu back a challenger to Sen. Nick Collins
What are the boundaries of Dorchester? It depends on where you look and how far back you go in history. Yawu Miller reports.
Among Washington’s Continental Army soldiers were two Dorchester brothers — Isaac and James Davenport.
Small landlords spoke out against the effects of rent control on smaller investors during a State House event last week.
Minority-owned businesses have gotten just 5.13 percent of the more than $89 million the city has spent so far on its portion of the stadium project, according to a city website.
The state Senate last Thursday voted 37-3 to pass its version of the PROTECT Act — a bill aimed at limiting federal immigration agents’ deportation activities in Massachusetts communities.
During a town hall meeting in Dorchester last Saturday (May 2), US Rep. Ayanna Pressley argued that now is not a time for Democrats to feel defeated.
Councillors peppered the city’s interim Chief of Streets, Nick Gove, with questions about delays to road and street improvement projects that some argued could result in the loss of substantial federal funding.
The proposed change, which passed an initial signature threshold to make the November ballot, but must first be taken up by the Legislature, would only apply to state and county races, not city elections.
Teen activists demonstrated outside of Mayor Wu’s City Hall office last week and again in front of the Reggie Lewis Track facility on Saturday to call on the city to fund more year-round jobs for youth.
Cuts in spending for youth jobs in the mayor’s budget have ignited outrage among many of those same people who benefitted from employment programs in the past.