LOCAL NEWS
Pressley launches grassroots campaignIn an off-year city council race where city-wide turnout will likely be below 20 percent of registered voters, at-large City Councilor Ayanna Pressley is banking on raising turnout in some of the city's lowest-voting communities. More » |
Peace keeping program in Roxbury's H-BlockDoes anybody remember Jahmol Norfleet? He was from the section of Roxbury known as H-Block, a friendly young man who got caught up in the gang life, and was sentenced to a year in prison when a gun fell out of his book bag at school. More » |
Patrick signs court hiring overhaul billGov. Deval Patrick signed a sweeping overhaul of the state's court system last Thursday, even as he faulted lawmakers for not adopting one of his key proposals and tweaked the courts for pushing to add extra jobs in the bill. More » |
BSC considering relocating some schoolsThe Boston School Committee (BSC) received a proposal last month that included the relocation of two Boston high schools, the opening of two new elementary, in-district charter school and the expansion of seats at the Eliot Elementary School in the North End. More » |
Boston post office named for Marine killed in IraqA post office in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston has been named for a local Marine who was killed in Iraq. More » |
Windfall for Massachusetts hospitals is questionedWASHINGTON - An obscure provision tucked into the federal health care law has turned into a jackpot for Massachusetts hospitals, but officials in other states are upset because the money will come from their hospitals. More » |
Mass. leaders examining possible debt deal falloutMassachusetts officials are trying to gauge the fallout from last week's budget-cutting debt deal in Washington, warning the state's coffers and key industries like defense manufacturers and medical researchers could feel the brunt of any cuts. More » |
MBTA manager to be new Mass. transportation chiefGov. Deval Patrick last week named Richard Davey, the general manager of the MBTA, to fill the state's top transportation job, putting him at the helm of a sprawling bureaucracy that Patrick said remained "overburdened" with debt from the Big Dig project. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
The 'Obama Foodorama' and other tales of cookingIn the spring of 2009, first lady Michelle Obama and students from Bancroft Elementary School broke ground on the White House lawn to create a vegetable garden - the first of its kind since Eleanor Roosevelt's wartime Victory Garden in 1943. More » |
NYC program draws praise, questionsNEW YORK - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's announcement last week of a $127 million project to help young black and Latino men was met with praise, but also some criticism over its funding. More » |
Obama proposes tax credits to hire jobless vetsWASHINGTON - President Barack Obama proposed tax credits Friday to help companies hire America's 1 million unemployed military veterans and vowed to press Congress harder this fall for legislation to provide more jobs for all. More » |
Marine Corps seeks award for first blacksSAN DIEGO - The top leader of the Marine Corps said last Tuesday that he wants the first black members of the Marines to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and hopes their story will inspire more black men and women to join the Corps and rise through its ranks. More » |
Dems, GOP cite '65 voting law in remapping debatesRICHMOND, Va. - When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965, it was an antidote to Jim Crow-era efforts to suppress the black vote in Southern states still fighting bloody battles over racial equality. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Canadian couple performs mix of Afro-Cuban & jazzThe improvisational nature of jazz draws musicians who are responsive to their own inclinations. Take Jane Bunnett. At first preparing for a career as a classical pianist, she visited San Francisco in the mid-70s and was dazzled by the quintet of the great bassist Charles Mingus. Back home in Toronto, she took up jazz flute and soprano saxophone. Now, at age 55, Bunnett is an acclaimed jazz artist and one of the jazz world's few female sax players. She has also developed a distinctive career interweaving jazz with Afro-Cuban music. More » |
Famine: 'Hundreds of thousands of kids could die'DADAAB, Kenya - Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filled with hungry Somalis. More » |
Haiti lawmakers reject 2nd pick for PMPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian lawmakers rejected President Michel Martelly's second pick for prime minister last week, delivering a major blow to the new leader as he struggles to get a government in place almost three months after taking office. More » |
