LOCAL NEWS
Council candidates debate youth issues at key forumThe overwhelming majority of the teenagers who put together the city council candidate's forum at English High School last week aren't old enough to vote. More » |
Volunteers offer hope, help amid foreclosuresDorrett Martin, a volunteer with the Jamaica Plain housing advocacy group City Life/Vida Urbana, navigated her car along the short curvy streets near Mattapan Square. More » |
A modern-day connection in an old-fashioned wayEverybody likes to get letters, but few people are as adept as Stoughton resident Kantigi Camara at writing back. More » |
Mass. facing $600M budget gap, more cutsBOSTON - Fiscal experts offered a sober outlook for the state?s revenues, saying Massachusetts may fall up to $600 million short of projected tax collections in the current fiscal year, forcing another round of painful budget cuts. More » |
Labor committee reviewing bill mandating paid sick daysHaving healthcare coverage is one thing, but according to the Massachusetts Paid Leave Coalition (MPLC), healthcare is of no use if people are not able to take the time away from work to receive that coverage. More » |
MIT dialogue sheds light on race and mainstream mediaIn a wide-ranging discussion on the mainstream media, noted journalist Juan Williams and MIT professor J. Phillip Thompson equally agreed that both are falling short in consistently providing important information to communities of color. More » |
Berklee boosts recruiting in Latin AmericaBOSTON - Mariachi music has been Adrian Longoria's passion since he was a child. The Houston-born 21-year-old has performed for packed wedding receptions, private business parties and in dark corners of Mexican restaurants. More » |
Prize-winning authors to grace Boston book festivalBibliophiles have been grumbling for a while that something in Boston was missing. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Obama's Nobel prize sparks vitriol, spiteWASHINGTON - Vitriol and invective stain American political history, but falsehoods, half-truths and innuendo now spread with the speed of light across partisan airwaves and the Internet the din drowning out the country's moderate political center. More » |
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and its message to the worldThough Barack Obama's selection as this year?s Noble Peace Prize recipient is unconventional - and some would say controversial - it's perfectly logical when one considers what Obama represents in historical context. More » |
Obama's worthy message of hope and presidential electionThe awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barrack Obama has provoked what one correspondent called "a huge national conversation." The responses have ranged from shock to downright viciousness. President Obama acknowledges that the award is more for hope and American leadership than for anything he himself has achieved personally. But reporters keep asking the question, "Does he deserve it?" More » |
A darker side of Columbus emerges in US classroomsTAMPA, FL - Christopher Columbus' stature in U.S. classrooms has declined somewhat through the years, and many districts did not observe the explorer's namesake holiday on Monday. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Carter seeks to boost Caribbean malaria fightOUANAMINTHE, Haiti - Jovind Fritzner is well-known in this border town, where the ditches lining the dirt roads collect stagnant water perfect for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. More » |
Rainy-day oil funds see Mideast through downturnDUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Middle East has weathered the global economic downturn better than other parts of the world because its energy exporters were able to tap billions of dollars in oil profits collected when prices were booming, the International Monetary Fund said Sunday More » |
