Mayor Martin J. Walsh discussed the City of Boston’s successes and needs for improvement in regard to education, housing, diversity and more in Boston’s first State of the City Address. Around 2,500 people convened in Symphony Hall Tuesday evening for the event, just over a year after Walsh’s inauguration.
Since Monday, Jan. 5, pre-selected groups of 200 individuals have packed the Moakley Federal Court Building in order to fill out surveys that will determine whether they are fit to judgeDzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 21-year old former University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth student accused of detonating two homemade pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
The US Olympic Committee (USOC) announced on Jan. 8 that it has selected Boston as its candidate for hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, making Boston beat out Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The International Olympics Committee (IOC) will spend the next two and a half years weighing Boston against other global cities, including Rome, Paris, Nairobi and Berlin. The decision will be made in 2017 at ameeting of the IOC in Lima, Peru.
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).
