There’s quite a disconnect these days between what is said and what’s happening on the ground. Pick your subject. Mine will be health care in our great Commonwealth. Of course health care has been in the news locally and nationally…
Month: March 2017
How We’re Investing in Our Schools
By Mayor Martin J. Walsh Education provides a solid foundation for a growing and thriving city. An investment in our children’s education is an investment in Boston’s future. We want the best future possible for our kids, and their school…
How Low Can They Go?
The political goings-on in Washington these past few weeks truly have been unprecedented within the lifetime of anyone alive today. The budget outline submitted by President Trump a few weeks ago, followed by the failed attempt to take away health…
We Remember It Well…
The “it” we are referring to was the surprise April Fool’s Day snowstorm of 1997 — 20 years ago this week — that dumped 25 inches of snow in this immediate area and even more in other places in the…
Cathedral Girls Basketball Win State Championship
Roody Jean-Baptist, 18, a senior at Cathedral High, asks Jasmine Veerapen (11) to be his prom date at the end of the state Semi-Finals in Woburn High School last Wednesday night, March 15. The Cathedral girls won the game over…
Exchange South End Unveils Initial Ideas at South End Forum, Takes Show to the Road
By Seth Daniel If the Boston Flower Exchange project is going to be all about the community, they’ve certainly started in the right place. Looking to pre-empt the City’s official process with their own “feeling out” of the South End…
Reshaping the BPDA from the Inside Out:Women now Make up Majority of Agency Staff
By Beth Treffeisen The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) was formed in 1957. Throughout the years, this agency has decided in many ways what direction the City should go in by having a…
SoWa Saturday Proposal Still Hung up at City Hall
By Seth Daniel After a long and involved meeting with the Old Dover Neighborhood Association last month concerning the expansion of the SoWa Market to Saturdays, the eventual overwhelming neighborhood supports seemed to be the conclusion of the community discussion.…
Debate Over Proposed Tower in the Bay Village Continues
By Beth Treffeisen Looming over the minds of many in the Bay Village and surrounding neighborhoods, is a proposed 19-story building that is slated to fill in the gap of a current surface parking lot, between the Revere Hotel and…
News Briefs
TIME TO HAVE SOME FUN…AND TALK ‘Get Tapped’ will take place on Tuesday, March 28, from 6-10 p.m. at Banyan Bar + Refuge, 553 Tremont St. Tickets are $15 and that includes two drink tickets from kegs of Pabst, featured…