The Bay State Banner's Yawu Miller put out a fine piece this week which demonstrated that Mayor Martin Walsh has only appointed two people of color to serve on his new 17-seat cabinet so fa
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5 Feb 2014 - 2:01pm
Northampton, Mass. - A nonprofit based in Northampton, Mass. has recently been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize due to their work monitoring military spending in the US.
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3 Feb 2014 - 11:33pm
This is #7 of "Local Edition," the twice a month newscast sponsored by the WMBR Radio News Department and Open Media Boston.
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3 Feb 2014 - 11:09pm
BOSTON/South Boston – Members and supporters of the Boston Public Schools’ bus drivers’ union, United Steelworkers Local 8751 rallied Saturday at the Freeport bus yard in South Boston.
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2 Feb 2014 - 3:44pm
On February 1st at the Center for Marxist Education in Central Square, Cambridge, communist historian Doug Enaa Greene discussed the life and thought of the 19th century French communist revolutionary Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881).
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31 Jan 2014 - 4:15am
BOSTON - Mayor Martin Walsh spoke to a Massachusetts Biotechnology Council event at the Omni Parker House ballroom this week, and focused his remarks on the challenge of bringing more jobs in the sector to Boston as well as to biotech powerhouse Cambridge - without continuing the open competition
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30 Jan 2014 - 12:06pm
Brockton, Mass. - A judge has ruled that members of the Brockton Police Department illegally entered the home of a Cape Verdean family in 2008, and used excessive force while arresting family members.
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28 Jan 2014 - 4:22pm
A new report by the international charity Oxfam has shone a critical light on global inequality, finding that the richest 10 per cent of people own a staggering 86 per cent of the world’s wealth.
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27 Jan 2014 - 10:02pm
BOSTON/Jamaica Plain – Yes, the headline is meant to evoke Douglas Adams, the late British writer who summed up life’s mysteries with a single number: 42.
I’m not saying author, philosopher and activist Charles Eisenstein offers a magic number or a magic bullet for the planet’s ills. But after hearing his presentation at the Jamaica Plain Forum on Sunday, I think I can summarize his thesis succinctly.
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27 Jan 2014 - 5:46pm
BOSTON - Acknowledging the growing threat that climate change poses to the Bay State, Governor Deval Patrick unveiled a $50m preparedness plan January 14.
