My Brother’s Keeper, a new White House initiative to fight chronic absenteeism in public education, has joined with Boston Public Schools (BPS) to introduce the partnership program to four institutions.
Andrea Campbell, city councilor for Boston’s District 4, which includes Dorchester, Mattapan, parts of Jamaica Plain and parts of Roslindale, was born and raised in Boston. Before being elected to City Council in the fall of 2015, she worked as a lawyer, first at a nonprofit focusing on education, then as deputy legal counsel under Gov. Deval Patrick.
No IndyCar Boston, a group formed to oppose the Boston Grand Prix auto race preliminarily scheduled for Labor Day Weekend, has sparked a debate over the impact the event would have on the environment and the city.
For this year’s Super Tuesday on March 1, Massachusetts will be one of 15 states and territories that will open their polls and cast votes on who they believe should be the nominee for president from the Democratic and Republican parties.
In an effort to improve living conditions for chickens housed in tiny wire spaces, 13 food companies are boycotting the use of cages in egg production.
Obtaining a birth certificate and acquiring business licenses can require a time-consuming trip to the Boston City Hall, so the city is bringing the services to the streets. City Hall To Go, a food-truck-inspired vehicle, travels the streets of Boston as a mobile municipal office, giving civic processes new accessibility and ease.
More than 250 programmers, social change activists and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) teamed up for 24 hours at Tufts University last weekend to create web and mobile applications related to international development and philanthropy.
Bostonians who face parking tickets and fees now have a new way to pay them back: PayTix, an app launched Jan. 28, allows users to settle their dues with the City of Boston through their smartphones.
Children started by swaying slowly to the spiritual classic “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” performed by Etta James. They moved into an energetic shake when Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” began blasting on the radio and a gleeful jump when Pharell Williams’ “Happy” filled the Boston Public Library’s Children’s Room.
Boston Latin School (BLS), the oldest high school in America, is under investigation for a record-low black and Latinx (a gender-neutral term to replace “Latino/a”) attendance rate, with both students and parents claiming that faculty make openly racist remarks in school.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) once again finds itself the target of significant public scrutiny as its leadership fights a two-front war against massive debt and aging equipment.
