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Voting begins for first round of participatory budgeting process
The participatory budgeting process was launched following a 2021 ballot question in which 68% of voters approved the creation of the Office of Participatory Budgeting, alongside other changes to the ...
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Along the Neponset, advocates look to balance remediation work with potential future use
In a statement to the Banner, a DCR spokeswoman was noncommittal about what work might take place at the site following the remediation work but said the department looks forward to collaborating with ...
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Actors’ Shakespeare Project tackles loss and light with August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’
Jade Guerra with Daniel Rios Jr. in rehearsal for August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. Photo: Courtesy of Actors' Shakespeare Project. Through his iconic American Century Cycle, a collection of 10 plays ...
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Ahead of the Trump administration, state pursues action to protect reproductive healthcare
The grant funding comes as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to reenter the White House, a political shift that advocates worry will have negative consequences for the reproductive healthcare ...
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Mayor’s Youth Summit hopes to engage Boston’s future leaders
The 2025 Mayor’s Youth Summit will take place on Saturday, February 22. The summit is targeted toward youth throughout the city and gives them a forum to showcase their talents and build community.
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Ayanna Pressley channels MLK Jr.’s legacy to call for resistance to Trump
While Pressley said she’d been busy at community events all day, she planned to listen to Trump’s inauguration speech, and paraphrased the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s important that we study ...
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Hope, fear and counter-protests in Washington
Speaking to various marchers who had traveled from Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and to locals from Washington, the mood was one of sobriety, still processing the election results, and as one of them ...
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The Final Four in football is set
The race for Super Bowl LIX has come down to a four-team race with the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Washington Commanders, and the Philadelphia Eagles. These superb ...
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10+ things you can do with your Boston Public Library card
This is one of the most advertised perks of your BPL card. Every month the library has a certain number of free and reduced admission passes to museums like the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum ...
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To be female, patriotic and Black
Throughout American history, images of Black women have been symbolized as the mammy, the welfare queen, the Jezebel, the Sapphire — and yes, the tragic mulatto. Meanwhile, the women themselves have ...
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To resist Trump 2.0, look to Florida — and organize
Not the distant future — the future that starts on January 20 when Donald Trump returns to the White House, bringing with him the promise of dangerous, retrograde ideas about education, immigration, ...
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Healey’s plan to eliminate broker fees met with approval and caution
Last year, city councilors filed a Home Rule Petition to ask the state to ban the practice of tenant-paid broker fees, and Boston and Cambridge city councilors joined the effort. With Healey’s ...