LOCAL NEWS
Parade starts District 3 campaign seasonThe campaign for City Council District 3 heated up Sunday as the seven candidates for the seat mobilized their troops and distributed handshakes and campaign literature during the annual Dorchester Day Parade. More » |
Tornadoes a bane and boon to Massachusetts businessesSPRINGFIELD, Mass. - The tornadoes that pulverized neighborhoods in western and central Massachusetts have been a boon and bane to businesses, wrecking some but boosting others. More » |
End of an era: From Boston's premier urban station to the Beijing hourAs an African American who specializes in multicultural marketing and whose last name is Chunn, how can I be upset that Boston's only noted black AM station, WILD 1090, now carries Chinese programming? More » |
Playing the China cardCheck out the Facebook page for WILD-AM and the images of talk show hosts Al Sharpton and Tom Joyner as well as Radio One President Cathy Hughes appear with text about the station's African American talk format. More » |
MA Dems gather to hear from Brown challengersThousands of Massachusetts Democrats hunkered down in Lowell on Saturday to map out a strategy for their two top goals for the 2012 election - re-electing Barack Obama and ousting Scott Brown. More » |
The new South Boston still tied to old jurisdictionsUMass Boston student Dion Marsman was enjoying the warm weather when the now-infamous fight broke out at Carson Beach. More » |
Housing advocates protest award for landlord KargmanAbout 40 affordable housing advocates, tenants and community residents held a protest before a B'nai B'rith Housing New England (BBHNE) fundraising event in which William Kargman of First Realty Management was to be honored for his commitment to providing affordable housing. More » |
Mass. won't sign onto immigration check programGov. Deval Patrick has decided Massachusetts won't participate in a federal program that checks the immigration status of people who are arrested, saying the state already turns over convicted felons to federal law enforcement officials. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Prison inmates at issue in redrawing political districtsThe U.S. Census Bureau has always counted inmates where they are incarcerated, rather than where they last lived. But because the nation's prison population has swelled, states are being urged to abandon a practice that critics call "prisonbased gerrymandering." More » |
Still seeking newer world 43 years after RFK's deathLast Sunday marked the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. He was gunned down during the early morning hours of June 5, 1968, immediately after he had claimed victory in the California Democratic presidential primary at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. More » |
AG Holder tries to correct drug sentencing disparityU.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified last week before the United States Sentencing Commission to support advocating retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. More » |
Lower drug costs key to Medicare reformNews articles of recent weeks have been filled with politicians debating Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's plan to privatize Medicare. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated in early April that Ryan's approach would actually increase an average senior's medical costs by $6,400 in a decade. More » |
Obama: US economy still facing challengesTOLEDO, Ohio - Faced with a dismal new jobs report, President Barack Obama said Friday that the economy "is taking a while to mend" and faces "bumps on the road to recovery." But at an event to celebrate the resurgence of the auto industry he made no mention of the dour economic news that threatened to obscure his optimistic message. More » |
Obama prospects might hinge on voter registrationWASHINGTON - In 2008, Barack Obama tapped into a record of nearly 15 million voters who cast ballots for the first time, a surge in registration that may be difficult to replicate next year. More » |
Former LA Black Panther leader Pratt dies at 63NAIROBI, Kenya - Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, died early Friday from a medical ailment, an associate said. He was 63. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Camps cleared in Haiti as hurricane season startsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The mayor of a large city in the Haitian capital region has begun clearing out camps set up after last year's earthquake, evicting hundreds of people amid heavy rains and the start of the hurricane season last week. More » |
Egypt remembers man whose death sparked revolutionCAIRO - Crowds of Egyptians dressed in black held demonstrations Monday to honor a young man from Alexandria beaten to death a year ago in a savage attack blamed on police that helped inspire the uprising that brought down Egypt's president. More » |
