BOSTON - Over the past few days, local media outlets have flooded the airwaves with photo essays of flamboyantly dressed drag queens, Thank Menino signs, and photos of gay NBA veteran Jason Collins.
BOSTON/State House - The Massachusetts legislature is currently reviewing three bills this session that may lead to food products containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to carry identifying labels.
Gold Rush In The Jungle by Dan Drollette Jr, The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam’s “Lost World” (Crown Publishers, New York, 316 pages, $25.00)
Over the last several months, regular Open Media Boston viewers will have seen my periodic notices mentioning that I was only writing editorials infrequently while completing my MFA in Visual Arts at an area university.
Cambridge, Mass. - The crowd was out the door of The Just Crust this Saturday during its grand opening.
BOSTON/State House - The Boston Teachers Union called on lawmakers Tuesday to keep limits on the number of charter schools in the Bay State.
Braving temperatures well over 90 degrees, as many as 500 people gathered on the outer edge of the Boston Common on Saturday, across the street from the Massachusetts Statehouse, to demonstrate their solidarity with the protests currently under police attack in Turkey.
Cambridge, Mass. - The campaign to pull Harvard’s stock holdings out of the fossil fuel industry has graduated from primarily a baccalaureate effort, to one that includes law students, faculty, and some of the school’s distinguished and well-heeled alumni.