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Lydia Edwards

EASTBOUND AND GOWN: AS STUDENTS DISPLACE LONGTIME EAST BOSTONIANS, A COMMUNITY WELCOMES NEWCOMERS BUT NOT WITHOUT SOME CONCERNS

Written by Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We will lose the connection, the tight community we have in our neighborhood,” she said of more transient renters. “We won’t get to know our neighbors.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston East, City Life, condos, development, displacement, east boston, eastie, gentrification, Housing, housing costs, immigration, Lydia Edwards, Maverick Square, rent control, Vida Urbana

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

UNCTUOUS PILOT: ARE COLLEGES IN BOSTON PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE?

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted October 31, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Students, councilors turn up heat over broken payment promises by nonprofits

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Annissa Essaibi-George, Boston, Boston College, boston university, Lydia Edwards, Neu!, nonprofits, Northeastern, PILOT, Steve Murphy

WE INTERVIEWED MORE THAN 25 BOSTON CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES ABOUT SCHOOLS

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 19, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

We really did sit down with 27 candidates for Boston City Council—from at-large contenders to those trying for district seats—to ask about Boston Public Schools.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, 2017 races, Ayanna Pressley, Beacon Hill, Boston, Boston politics, Boston Public Schools, BPS, Brawl for City Hall, Cambridge, City Council, City Hall, corruption, coverage, D7, District 7, Domingos DaRosa, east boston, education, indictments, Joe Curtatone, Lydia Edwards, Margaret Farmer, Massachusetts politics, mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor tom Menino, Pat Payaso, Politics, Roxbury, Rufus Faulk, schools, SOMERVILLE, South Boston, State House, strong mayor, TenPoint Coalition, Tito Jackson, weak mayor

BRAWL FOR CITY HALL: SOCIALIST MOMENTUM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 29, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"There is a sense in which we understand that resistance to Trump needs to be rooted in resistance against a neoliberal economic and political system that is rotten at every level."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, alderman, Bernie Sanders, Boston, Boston DSA, Brawl for City Hall, Cambridge, City Council, democratic socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, Jesse Clinghan, JT Scott, Lydia Edwards, Our America, Politics, SOMERVILLE

TWO QS ON SCHOOLS: LYDIA EDWARDS (BOSTON CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE, D1)

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 2, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"I don’t know that there’s a grading system you can give because the schools vary so much, and my concern about standardized assessment of all the schools in general is that they don’t account for all of the differences the schools have."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, 2017 races, Beacon Hill, Boston politics, Brawl for City Hall, Cambridge, City Council, City Council District 1, City Hall, corruption, coverage, District 1, east boston, education, indictments, Joe Curtatone, Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts politics, mayor Marty Walsh, Mayor tom Menino, Politics, schools, SOMERVILLE, South Boston, State House, strong mayor, Tito Jackson, weak mayor

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