LOCAL NEWS
Flaherty banking on big base, small talk to unseat MeninoAccording to City Councilor-at-Large Michael F. Flaherty, the idea came in the wake of the municipal election of 2007, in which only 13.6 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot. To reach more residents and drive up the low rate of turnout, Flaherty would hold a series of kitchen-table meetings with small groups of voters in their homes. More » |
New city cleanup effort kicks off in Grove HallGrove Hall received a facelift last Saturday, as city workers toiled from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to help beautify and revitalize the Roxbury neighborhood. More » |
John Bynoe, longtime Rox activist, dead at 82John Garvey Bynoe, a Roxbury man committed to civil rights and community activism, died Aug. 13, 2009, at his retirement home in Cape Cod. He was 82. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
40 years later, Woodstock remains a national anthemOf all the muddy, drug-fueled images of Woodstock, none stands out more than Jimi Hendrix playing "The Star-Spangled Banner." It was an eerie solo delivered on the morning of Aug. 18, 1969, complete with amplified feedback designed to mimic the sounds of falling bombs and screaming jets, speeding ambulances and human anguish. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Economic troubles roil AfricaJOHANNESBURG - Amid signs that the rest of the world may be recovering from the global financial crisis, Africa is still being hammered. More » |
