As the ongoing restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment Memorial on the Boston Common progresses, the sculpture’s stonework is being disassembled bit by bit before the bronze sculpture can be removed as one piece and taken off…
Month: August 2020
SELDC Grants Mandatory Certificate of Exemption to Villa Victoria Center for the Arts
The South End Landmark District Commission (SELDC), against their wishes, granted a Certificate of Exemption on August 4 to raze the former church and parish house at 85 West Newton St., home of the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts.…
Two Homicides on Mass/Cass in One Week Define Recent Uptick in Violence
The Mass/Cass area has been hit with two homicides this week, one on Friday near the Southampton Shelter and a second on Tuesday morning in Clifford Park – both hot spots on the corridor that have seen an uptick in…
Back to School…at a Five-Star Hotel? Some Colleges Surprise Residents with Hotel Plans
Dan Murphy, Lauren Bennett and Seth Daniel Plans for college and university students have begun to settle into the neighborhoods this week, surprising some and causing all to pause and think about what such a massive amount of students in…
Waiting for the Big One
As we are writing this, we are awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Isaias, which is the earliest-ever ninth named storm of a hurricane season. Although Isaias was a weak Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall in the Carolinas and…
Deaths Are Only Part of the COVID Story
Whether the subject is drunk driving, gun violence, or COVID-19, the headline that grabs our attention always is the death toll, of which there tragically have been more than 150,000 of our fellow Americans from COVID-19. However, what often goes unreported are the…
Guest Op-Ed: School Buffer Zones Shackle Communities of Color from Economic Freedom
By Linda Champion Creating drug-free school buffer zones sounds like a good idea. The disparate impacts of these zones led to the mass incarceration of thousands of Black and Brown residents. Now, this same failed policy is being used to…