“When you’re riding the wave, it all seems to go away and you’re just really connected with the ocean and the nature and the elements.”
NEWS+OPINIONS
State Wire: Public Supports Changes To High-Stakes Testing For Mass Students
"The score ... is simply a measure of who is a good test taker."
State Wire: White Supremacist Gatherings, Incidents Hit All-Time High In New England
"If your community instead comes out and said, 'we are with you, we see you', that's a really powerful message."
State Wire: Protests, Construction Continue at East Boston Substation
"It has never been about our community. It has never been about what we need or want."
BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus
And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986
Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about him at BU today.
Her article paints a picture ...
State Wire: Efforts Underway To Formalize COVID-19 Remembrance Day In Mass
"We can't prevent what we're unwilling to acknowledge."
State Wire: Bills Aim To Restore Vote For People Incarcerated For Felony Convictions
"We need a criminal legal system that is grounded in rehabilitation."
Opinion: Failed American Dream
South Asian Workers’ Center activists call for “a different way of imagining justice” in the wake of CPD killing of Sayed Arif Faisal
Seven years ago, Sayed Arif Faisal immigrated to Somerville from Chittagong in Bangladesh. While he studied computer science at UMass Boston, he worked at CVS. His mother worked at Dunkin Donuts, and his father traveled back and forth to Bangladesh for his job.
On Jan 4, 2023, Arif was in ...
The Extent Of The Commonwealth’s War On Flavored Tobacco
State report highlights seizures in booming illicit market, quantifies revenue loss
State Wire: New England Coordinates Regional Response To Climate Change
"We're seeing changes in the frequency, in the destructiveness, even in where disasters are occurring."