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POLS VOICE SUPPORT FOR SHERATON WORKERS

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted March 30, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Employees jobs of the largest hotel in Boston could be in jeopardy

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, hotel, Politics, sheraton, workers

EVERSOURCE’S EAST BOSTON SUBSTATION: “THIS IS A POWER PLAY”

Written by JON LAMSON Posted March 21, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

City councilor and state Sen. Lydia Edwards on the planned electrical substation in East Boston and the proposal to halt its construction

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, City Council, east boston, Eversource

CITY COUNCILOR RICARDO ARROYO TO RUN FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted February 9, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The former public defender announced his candidacy

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, District Attorney, Politics, Suffolk Council

THE MOST IMPORTANT NONRACE IN THE COMMONWEALTH

Written by CHRIS HUES Posted October 21, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Sometimes in politics, you want to pay attention to who isn’t running. That’s certainly the case in Boston’s D-3 race.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, Election, Politics

COUNCIL CANDIDATE PITCHES IMMIGRANT-FRIENDLY IDEAS BASED ON EXPERIENCE

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted July 29, 2021 Filed Under: Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“People don’t realize a lot of these kids with immigrant backgrounds come with trauma, coming from war-torn countries.”

Filed Under: Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Hall, City Council, Election, immigrants, immigration, news

CITY COUNCIL PASSESS ORDINANCE RESTRICTING WEAPONS USED BY THE POLICE

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted April 28, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The use of crowd control agents and kinetic impact projectiles will be regulated.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, crowd control agent, Police, weapon

THE OPPONENT: NEWCOMER MCBRIDE TAKES ON BAKER IN D3

Written by CHRIS HUES Posted April 18, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We have added housing to the market over the past few years, but we haven’t made significant gains against the underlying occupancy rate.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: City Council, Green New Deal, opiod, Politics

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE TROLL TOLL

Written by ADAM SENNOTT Posted November 17, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Municipalities brave Zoom learning curve in pandemic times.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, coronavirus, COVID, Pandemic Democracy Project, Politics, SOMERVILLE, Somerville News Garden

CAMBRIDGE POLS, POLICE COMMISSIONER MELT DOWN OVER BLM DEBATE

Written by MARC LEVY Posted June 12, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Police commissioner Branville G. Bard Jr. takes the dais Sunday at a Black Lives Matter protest on Cambridge Common. Photo by Marc Levy, Cambridge Day.

Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Branville G. Bard Jr., Cambridge, Cambridge Police Department, City Council, Debate, defund the police, E. Denise Simmons, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Protest, Quinton Zondervan, slider, Sumbul Siddiqui

CAMBRIDGE ARTISTS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST DISPLACEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 16, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Reflections on a new grassroots political movement in formation

 

Another Cambridge arts institution is being pushed out of its longtime home by a greedy landlord. And once again, local artists are mobilizing to “discuss and organize for meaningful political action to support the arts” in that city—as the Facebook ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, Art, artists, Ben Simon, Cambridge, City Council, Column, displacement, EMF, gentrification, Green Street Studios, Housing, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Mobius, Nadeem Mazen, news, Nicola Williams, Politics

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