LOCAL NEWS
JP divided over new Whole Foods MarketIn an ongoing fight against gentrification, Jamaica Plain residents are increasing resistance to the planned opening of a Whole Foods Market in Hyde Square. Last week, a small group of activists hand-delivered a petition with more than 1,000 signatures to the Whole Foods regional office in Cambridge, calling on the chain to stay out of their neighborhood. More » |
SJC: Bristol County inmates owed $1 million in refundsPrisoner advocates are racing against a tight deadline to find thousands of former inmates, who together are owed nearly $1 million in refunds for fees unlawfully collected by the Bristol County sheriff for rent, medical services, GED exams and overpriced haircuts. More » |
Expired school food prompts outrageEarlier this month, City Councilor At-Large John Connolly discovered expired food in several Boston Public Schools cafeterias. In one kitchen, he found cheese a year past its expiration date, and in another, he found frozen beef from November 2009. More » |
Census: Mass. rural, suburb minority population upPublic schools in Randolph, Mass. report a jump in enrollment from Haitian students. A North Central Massachusetts city along to the New Hampshire border elected the state's first Asian American mayor. And next to a W.E.B. Du Bois mural in Great Barrington, Mass. sits a Latino grocery store and Mexican Restaurant that specialized in food from Oaxaca, Mexico. More » |
New NAACP seeing more gay, diverse chapter leadersWORCESTER, Mass. - The NAACP's newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned to a 30-something white man. More » |
School lunch program under renewed spotlightMore than 30 million kids line up in their school cafeterias, Monday through Friday, trays in hand, for a federally subsidized lunch. School lunches are notorious for being bland, dry and unappetizing - but how did they get this way? More » |
W. Mass. pols: Don't take away Congressional seatSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - A stream of political leaders from western Massachusetts on Saturday told the lawmakers charged with redrawing the state's political map that their region can't afford to lose the clout of either of its two Congressmen. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Farrakhan defends Gadhafi, pans US role in LibyaJACKSON, Miss. - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Friday that the United States lacks the moral authority to attack the forces of embattled Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. More » |
Across country, GOP pushes photo ID at the pollsRALEIGH, N.C. - Empowered by last year's elections, Republican leaders in about half the states are pushing to require voters to show photo ID at the polls despite little evidence of fraud and already-substantial punishments for those who vote illegally. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Haiti chooses new leader, hoping this one deliversPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians scarred by decades of poverty, political corruption and natural disasters cast ballots Sunday for president in hopes a new leader could do what others have not: Replace homes and schools in the earthquake-devastated capital, improve education and create some optimism for the future. More » |
UN: Up to 1 million flee Ivory Coast violenceABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - With possessions balanced on their heads, about 1,000 people frantically crowded around buses rented by Mali to evacuate its citizens Friday from Ivory Coast, as the U.N. said up to 1 million have fled their homes amid fears of civil war. More » |
