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“It takes six weeks to make a revolution, six years to make an economy, and sixty years to make a civil society.” That’s what one person said when I was in Hungary this month about the challenge to the more than 30 ... Read more.
Mary McCarthy is tired of waiting. A civic leader in Port Norfolk’s neighborhood, she has been pushing for the clean-up of the 14-acre area known as the former Shaffer Paper site for years.
“We’re not sitting back ... Read more.
The 6.25 percent sales tax will be temporarily suspended the weekend of Aug. 10 and 11, under a bill that sailed through the Legislature Wednesday and only requires the governor's signature to become law.
Gov. ... Read more.
The city will convene a meeting tonight (Aug. 1) to discuss the proposed re-use of the former Mattapan Library branch on Hazleton Street in Mattapan. The meeting will be held from 6-7 p.m. at the new library branch at ... Read more.
“My husband is running for mayor of Boston,” said Tchintcia Barros, who was standing outside the door as people poured out of the Route 27 bus on a Monday morning. “Good morning, my husband is running for mayor of Boston ... Read more.
The Boston Police Department is investigating two separate incidents of indecent assault and battery near the Ashmont T station on Friday and Monday.
According to police, a woman was walking from ... Read more.
As the Senate resumes debate on a $1.4 billion housing bond bill, immigrant rights advocates are calling on lawmakers to reject a proposal that will align state public housing requirements with federal standards, ... Read more.
A spokesperson for Mayor Tom Menino today said that the mayor believes that a key city-owned parcel along the Fairmount Line in Uphams Corner should be redeveloped as a "transit oriented development"— a strong indication ... Read more.
The city of Boston today installed a new "hero square" at the intersection of Massachusetts Ave. and Columbia Road as a permanent memorial to a former Dorchester resident who lost his life while serving in the U.S. Army ... Read more.
A newly-minted city of Boston plan to store street poles and bucket trucks on a three-acre property near Uphams Corner is coming under fire from some stakeholders, who say that the city-owned site next to the Fairmount ... Read more.
The special elections just keep on coming. In less than three weeks, voters in parts of Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, and Milton will choose the Democratic nominee in the race to replace Linda Dorcena Forry.
The ... Read more.
The city of Boston has formed a partnership with the Fiddlehead Theatre Company, which will be officially named the “resident theatre company” at the Strand Theatre during a public event scheduled for today. The ... Read more.
A proposal to build 184 units on Columbia Point aimed at young professionals has received the go-ahead from the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the city’s planning and development agency. The project is just one of ... Read more.
Hundreds of apartments in properties in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan are being overhauled and saved from foreclosure, according to an independent state agency charged with financing affordable housing. The ... Read more.
Man in custody for second assault that may be linked to homicide
A South Boston woman who was abducted and later stabbed to death and dumped in a wooded section of Hyde Park was first driven to ... Read more.
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