Local artists Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla, Shea Justice, and Jason Pramas have some problems with the "Boston Strong" slogan.
BOSTON/State House - While currently considering more than one bill to raise the state’s minimum wage, legislators were called on Wednesday to increase it to $10.50 an hour, to tie future raises to the cost of living, and to increase the minimum wage for tipped workers to $6.30 an hour.
This is our tenth “Local Edition,” the biweekly newscast sponsored by the WMBR Radio News Department and Open Media Boston.
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing – A local activist is suing a Boston Police Department officer for allegedly wrongfully arresting and charging him during a protest of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to Boston.
This is Open Media Boston’s News in Brief for March 24, 2014.
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It has become my custom to say a few words on the occasion of Open Media Boston's "birthday" each year. Why? I guess because for all of us that have worked on this project since we launched six years ago on March 20, 2008, it's a big victory to have continued publishing for another 12 months.
BOSTON/Roxbury - A local activist was put on pre-trial probation at the Boston Municipal Court in Roxbury on Wednesday in lieu of a trial based on charges of assaulting a Boston Police Department officer.
BOSTON/Fenway - Demonstrators called on the Northeastern University administration to reinstate the suspended student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), in a picket at the school on Tuesday.
This is Open Media Boston's News in Brief for March 18, 2014.
BOSTON/South Boston – For the fourth consecutive year, an alternative St.