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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

Boston City Council

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Written by ANNIE BENNETT Posted November 17, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, Politics

“This incumbent has never been about action."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, Politics Tagged With: bospoli, Boston, Boston City Council, Politics

OUTGOING BOSTON CITY COUNCILOR TIM MCCARTHY REMOVES HIS MASK

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 23, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

Take outgoing District 5 Councilor Tim McCarthy, who has historically had bad positions on cannabis, endorsed Gov. Charlie Baker in 2018, and often suffers from the same Caucasian derangement syndrome as the governor.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bospoli, Boston City Council, Hyde Park, Maria Esdale Farrell, Politics, Readville, Ricardo Arroyo, Roslindale, tim mccarthy, Tom Menino

BOLD EAGLES: FOLLOWING DISAPPOINTING CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON STUDENT LABOR, BC’S GRADUATE UNION PUSHES HARDER

Written by GRACE SYMES Posted August 1, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

This is not the first time BCGEU-UAW has caught the attention of the Boston City Council, which passed the Resolution Affirming the Rights of Graduate Student Workers to Organize for Fair Working Conditions in April to specifically call out BC’s treatment of their graduate student workers.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BC, BCGEU-UAW, Boston, Boston City Council, Boston College, graduate student union, labor, Lydia Edwards, unions

ALLSTON POLITICS CITY: IN A GENTRIFYING ARTS HAMLET, POLITICAL HOPEFULS SHARE PLANS TO KEEP THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD WEIRD

Written by OLIVIA DENG Posted July 26, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We put our necks out there to invest ourselves emotionally, physically, monetarily into everything that surrounds us because we wanna make it beautiful, and then the second it actually becomes beautiful is the second that people want to turn it into something else."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Allston, Allston-Brighton, Amanda Smart, bospoli, Boston City Council, brandon bowser, brighton, Ciommo, Craig Cashman, D9, Dan Daly, District 9, Jonathan Allen, Lee Nave, Liz Breadon, Politics

MORE DEMOCRACY NEEDED TO SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 15, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Apparent Horizon, biodiversity, Boston City Council, Climate Change, Column, Democracy, Environment, extinction, global warming, government, Green New Deal, Green Party, ISPBES, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts state legislature, michelle wu, MIT Technology Review, Paolo Bacigalupi, report, socialism, UN

‘THE PROCESS IS NOT ADEQUATELY INVOLVING COMMUNITY’

Written by MIKE CRAWFORD Posted January 16, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth

"As a public defender, I saw the effects of criminalizing marijuana."

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, The Tokin' Truth Tagged With: 2019, bospoli, Boston, Boston City Council, cannabis, Hyde Park, Midnight Mass, Ricardo Arroyo, Safe Injection Sites, Young Jurks

AND NOW A WORD FROM THE BOSTON YOUTH TRANSPORTATION PROJECT

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 12, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Transit policy has historically focused on expansion through suburban systems—serving White and wealthier constituents more reliably than those living in inner cities.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Council, Boston transportation, Boston Youth Transportation Project, BYTP, MBTA, michelle wu, public transit, tufts

LESS BUILDING, MORATORIUM

Written by ZAKIYA ALAKE Posted November 21, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Hundreds of Roxbury residents speak out against displacement at landmark hearing

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bospoli, Boston, Boston City Council, community, development, gentrification, hearing, Kim Janey, Marty Walsh, moratorium, Roxbury

THE THIRSTY GAINS: WITH LATEST MOVE, PRESSLEY MAY FINALLY DENT LIQUOR LICENSE DISPARITY

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Terms of Service

The vast majority of those 153 licenses will be restricted to seven historically underserved Boston neighborhoods: Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill and East Boston.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Terms of Service Tagged With: alcohol, Ayanna Pressley, BINJ, Boston, Boston City Council, Dorchester, east boston, home-rule petition, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, liquor licenses, Massachusetts, Mattapan, Mission Hill, Roxbury, Thirsty Games

INSANE CLOWN POLI

Written by JAMARHL CRAWFORD Posted October 22, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

When Payaso shows up to forums in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan in particular, how can he properly address a mother who has lost her son to gun violence? Or at the hands of the police? Can he hold a serious conversation in clown gear?

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: #mapoli, bospoli, Boston, Boston City Council, City Hall, Jamarhl Crawford, Kevin McCrea, Pat Payaso, Roxbury

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