BOSTON/Government Center – Proposed federal cuts to the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) continues to spark criticism from city officials and housing advocates.
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm
BOSTON/Hyde Park - A family of eight living in Hyde Park was saved from eviction earlier today following negotiations between lawyers with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and mortgage holder Aurora Bank and a loud raucous rally sponsored by Jamaica Plain-based City Life Vida Urbana.
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:46pm
BOSTON/Government Center - A dozen community activists scientists lawyers and health professionals joined several members of the Boston City Council today to call for a city-wide moratorium on research involving some of the world's most dangerous diseases.
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:46pm
BOSTON/Government Center - Boston would lose approximately $300 million if Question number 1 known as the “Small Government Act to End the Income Tax ” were to pass this election day. That’s according to the city’s Director of Administration and Finance Lisa Signori.
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BOSTON/Mattapan - Less than twelve hours after Barack Obama spoke to the nation following his historic election as the first black president an African American family in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston was evicted from their home.
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BOSTON/Government Center - According to multiple news reports Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner was arrested this morning at City Hall by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in an apparent widening of the political corruption probe that snared State Senator Dianne Wilkerson last month.
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New Bedford MA - The federal government and lawyers working with hundreds of undocumented workers many of whom have been deported to their native countries in Central America reached a financial settlement in a class action lawsuit this week with the former owner of a factory in New Bedford.
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:46pm
BOSTON/Government Center - Saying he would not sit back silently and allow his reputation to be ruined by the “employees of rich media corporation owners ” Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner defended himself today in the aftermath of his arrest by the F.B.I.
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Local organizations working on labor environmental and community issues plan to announce the formation of a new coalition this morning in Roxbury.
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BOSTON/Government Center - During his acceptance speech before the Boston City Council this morning newly elected Council President Michael Ross called for a portion of the Council’s business to be conducted in local neighborhoods. “Our citizens deserve a government they can be proud of.
