After the sudden closure of the Long Island Bridge due to structural unsoundness on Oct. 9, the City of Boston has been faced with the relocation of hundreds of individuals experiencing homelessness who occupied the island. It had provided those people with safety in the form of a homeless shelter, owned by the City of Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC).
A group of nine students sued Harvard University last week, claiming that the school’s fossil fuel investments are contrary to Harvard’s duties as a nonprofit and a charity.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an organization aimed at protecting the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, recently awarded Boston a perfect score on the 2014 Municipal Equality Index (MEI).
The small town of Westminster, Mass. was shaken up the past few weeks by a fight over its Board of Health’s proposal to ban the local sale of tobacco products. If passed, Westminster would have become the first town in the country to prohibit the sale of legal nicotine- and tobacco-based products including cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco and electronic cigarettes.
The United States Department of Public Health (DPH) gave Patriot Care Corp, a Massachusetts alternative healthcare provider, the final go-ahead to open Boston’s first medical marijuana dispensary on Friday, Nov. 7.
Over the past seven years, the percentage of people experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts has risen a significant amount: up 40.4 percent since 2007, according to a new report by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Olympic torch has been passed from country to country. Boston is one of the cities in the US being considered for the 2024 bid that would be presented to the International Olympics Committee in 2017. Other American cities that have been short-listed by the committee include Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington.
Last month, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the City of Boston’s Office of Food Initiatives announced the receipt of a $25,000 planning grant from the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Midterm elections marked losses for Democrats both in Mass. and across the nation as Republican Charlie Baker was elected governor and Republicans gained control of the Senate by winning seven new seats.
