Boston Police command staff led by Commissioner Michael Cox met with neighbors in the basement of the Greenwood Memorial United Methodist Church last Thursday night for a briefing on crime trends in the Area C-11 district, which includes much of Dorchester eest of Washington Street. The meeting, billed as a “Community Compstat,” drew about 50 people, along with a group of 20 uniformed officers.
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Veteran Boston journalist and election expert Chris Lovett joined Bill Forry from the Dorchester Reporter and DotLife host Erin Caldwell to highlight the week’s news, including election results, Mayor Wu’s State of the Schools address, Savin Bar + Kitchen takes down its Whitey/Flemmi decor, and what’s next for Morrissey Boulevard.
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Mayor Wu slipped off her shoes, put on a pair of mixed martial arts gloves, and took to the mat at Level Ground in Fields Corner last Monday (July 7), where she celebrated the kick-off to a summer program called 5th Quarter Learning.
Flanked by health care leaders of color on the State House steps, Sen. Liz Miranda framed her health equity reform omnibus legislation Tuesday as the “only beautiful bill that exists” and as an antidote to the federal megalaw that is expected to cause Medicaid upheaval.
The sequence is decided by a lottery conducted in public at the Election Department in City Hall. Mayor Wu snagged the pole position in the four-way contest for the city’s top job, with challengers Josh Kraft, Robert Cappucci, and Domingos DaRosa appearing after her name in that order.
The plea to get a women’s professional basketball team to Boston is cementing its roots deep within the State House with major assists from Dorchester’s Worrell brothers.
If approved, the permit would allow for music, DJs, dancing and the like for a combined capacity gathering of some 890 patrons.
The Zoning Board of Appeal last Tuesday (July 8) approved a developer’s plans for a 6-story, 45-unit apartment building on a parcel that stretches from Massachusetts Avenue to Boston Street in Edward Everett Square.
By Sunday, as talks percolated in Washington about a potential deal to reopen the federal government, both Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Gov. Maura Healey were promising more SNAP litigation
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