At her Bowdoin Street campaign office, just blocks from where one young man was gunned down, community organizer Liz Miranda opened a community meeting she organized with youth worker Romilda Pereira by simply asking the 50-or-so community residents how they were coping.

Conflict over the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court has induced patriots to consider the qualifications for that high office. The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have the responsibility to restrain the president and the Congress from usurping authority that is not granted to them by the U.S. Constitution. The Court must also assure that American citizens are granted the Civil Rights provided in the Constitution’s Amendments.

Developers wishing to build on city-owned land will now be required to outline the steps they will take to ensure people of color and women obtain jobs, contracts and an equity stake in the projects they intend to build, under new guidelines released last week by the Boston Planning and Development Agency.

The Boston School Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday Oct. 10 on who will join the hunt for the next superintendent, while education reformers discuss their ideal candidate for the schools leadership position.

Mahlon Williams, owner of I Love Boston Sports apparel shop, left a cushy job in finance in 2010 after hawking T-shirts near Fenway Park. They were original designs, created by Williams, with slogans like, “New England vs. Everyone” and other quick-witted sayings that only Boston sports fanatics would understand.