With two weeks to go before the final day to vote in the primary, the Ed Markey for U.S. Senate campaign is reporting $1.84 million in donations in the period from July 1 to Monday. The campaign received 38,697 individual…
Author: The Boston Sun Staff
Walsh Announces $30 Million New Affordable Housing Funding Round
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced that the City of Boston has released two Requests for Proposals (RFP) offering approximately $30 million for afford-able housing developments seeking City of Boston financial support. This is the first affordable housing funding the City…
Death at Verb Hotel in March Ruled a Homicide: Revere Man Arrested in Maine
At about 12:10 p.m. on Friday, March 13, officers assigned to District D-4 (South End) responded to a radio call for a cardiac arrest in the area of 1271 Boylston St. (Verb Hotel) in Fenway. On arrival, officers located an…
Save the U.S. Post Office
The unprecedented efforts to undermine the operations of the U.S. Postal Service by President Donald Trump and the Republicans are not even a thinly-veiled attempt to make sure that mail-in voting in the November election during this unprecedented pandemic will…
New Stimulus Bill Is Desperately Needed
As we all have learned by now, the so-called Executive Order (if any of it is even legal) recently issued by President Donald Trump two weeks ago amounts to all talk and no action. It does not stop any evictions…
Guest Op-Ed: Pine Street Out!
By George Stergios and Bob Minnocci, Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association Three weeks ago, Pine Street Inn leased the Roundhouse Suites and added another 180 homeless people to the Mass & Cass area, where there are hundreds already living in…
Letter to the Editor
A Thank You to Our Supporters We at United South End Settlements (USES) and New Boston Ventures want to take this opportunity to thank the hundreds of supporters who live, work and represent the South End neighborhood who helped ensure…
Veterans Pledge Support for Joe Kennedy for U.S. Senate
On Thursday, a group of Boston area veterans pledged their support for Joe Kennedy for U.S. Senate at a press conference held at the Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial in the South End. The speakers discussed the need for stronger leadership…
For the Record
Coronavirus Update: Due to public health concerns, the hearings that normally would be held on a week have been postponed or canceled due to the guidance of Mayor Martin Walsh and the order of Gov. Charlie Baker. Some meetings, however, have…
America Is Circling The Drain
On January 30 — what seems like a lifetime ago — the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 was a world-wide pandemic. On that same fateful date, the United States’ Centers for Disease Control issued a press release that stated…