It was a note from mom that changed the landscape for women to get the right to vote 100 years ago this week on Aug. 18, and 100 years later it has led to a lot of victories and a…
Author: Seth Daniel
Encampments Growing on Melnea Cass in South End
More and more people living in tents on the parkway alongside Melnea Cass Boulevard in the Alexandra Ball neighborhood have popped up over the last several weeks, and City officials say they do not yet have the proper protocol in…
Neighbors Call for Better Plan on Homeless Living in Peters Park
Residents in the East Berkeley Neighborhood Association (EBNA) are calling for the City and Pine Street Inn to come up with a better way to serve a growing group of homeless individuals that they said are taking over the park…
Crite Park Restoration Stages ‘Big Reveal’ on Site as Momentum Gathers
The movement to reconstitute the park and properly honor Allan Rohan Crite at Crite Park in the South End has gone into warp speed this summer, and that was buttressed last Wednesday night, Aug. 12, with the unveiling of the…
Roxbury Corners Coop Files Injunction to Stop Tubman House Closing, Demo
The full-court pressure returned to the Tubman House project this week, as a preliminary injunction and civil complaint was filed in Suffolk Superior Civil Court on Aug. 18 for United South End/Lower Roxbury Development Corporation (also known as Roxbury Corners…
Murdered on the Mile: Young Man Came to Boston for Help, But Ended up Getting Killed
Damien Hughes was known as a young man with lots of jokes – always the ham and the funny guy in the crowd. The party, unfortunately, went from the toney suburb of Westborough to the dregs of Methadone Mile –…
City Official Remains Confident Mass/Cass 2.0 Is Not a Failure
The leader of the Mass/Cass 2.0 plan disagreed this week with recent neighborhood descriptions of the plan being a “failure” and that it needed a re-start, noting that the demands of treating COVID-19 zapped the plan of many of its…
BPDA to Developers: We are Taking Diversity and Inclusion seriously
The Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) is sending a message this month to the development community and to residents that it plans to take a serious approach to Diversity & Inclusion when evaluating proposals for City-owned parcels – and…
City Unveils Mass/Cass 2.0 Dashboard Following Sharp Criticism from Neighbors
After facing sharp criticism from neighbors last week in the Worcester Square area on the Mass/Cass 2.0 plan, on Tuesday the City suddenly released a long-delayed online dashboard with statistics and benchmarks on things like recovery placements, needle exchanges and…
Major Interest Sparked for Mail-In Ballots Early in the Primary Election
City officials said this week they had received more than 26,500 applications from registered voters to procure a mail-in ballot for the Sept. 1 Primary Election – which faces a heated race for U.S. Senate race between Ed Markey and…