EDITORIAL
Rich versus poorClass warfare has erupted in America. Many citizens still do not hear the roar of the cannons because the conflict has been disguised as merely a battle over how to reduce the federal budget deficit. In the recent fiscal year the federal deficit was $1.3 trillion. More » |
OPINION
'Promise Neighborhoods' offer opportunity to move beyond the bickeringIn a particularly compelling scene at the beginning of "Waiting for Superman," the new documentary about urban public education in America, Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone, recounts the story of growing up in the ghetto and waiting for some kind of "Superman" to come and make things right in a place where so much was wrong. More » |
Community Voices: BPS proposal needs further reviewOn Dec. 2, 2010 Boston Superintendent Carol Johnson presented the district's proposals to cope with the $63 million budget deficit projected for FY2012. Johnson's proposals for reducing and controlling costs are organized into five steps, including a step called "filling empty seats." More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
CorrectionThe Dorchester-Roxbury Labor Committee wants to make one correction to our letter published in the Nov. 25 issue of The Banner. We stated that The Salvation Army had not advertised upcoming Kroc Center jobs to the neighborhood, nor produced job descriptions of the promised 85 percent of jobs to be awarded to people in a one mile radius of the Center. More » |
