SOMERVILLE, Mass., Aug. 12, 2014 – While some cities and towns have said they don’t want to host immigrant children from Central America, Somerville’s agencies, non-profits and many residents are welcoming them.
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2 Sep 2014 - 12:00am
BOSTON – The MBTA and its service contractors won’t be firing close to a third of the janitors who clean T stations and trains. Both the union representing the workers and MBTA management announced the proposed layoffs would be delayed indefinitely.
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21 Aug 2014 - 4:00am
This is number 20 in our continuing "Local Edition" series of newscasts sponsored by Open Media Boston and the WMBR Radio News Department.
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18 Aug 2014 - 5:37pm
Over dinner last night, Open Media Boston associate editor Jonny Adams and I celebrated the end of an era. As of today, both of us have moved on to other jobs and will run OMB on a volunteer basis for at least the rest of the year.
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18 Aug 2014 - 12:21pm
BOSTON/Roxbury – Following the shooting death of unarmed African-American teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson County, Missouri protestors took the streets of Boston on Saturday.
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18 Aug 2014 - 12:19pm
BOSTON – A Massachusetts man is suing the Boston Police Department (BPD), alleging that he was falsely arrested and maliciously charged by a Boston police officer in 2012.
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8 Aug 2014 - 12:18am
Communist historian Doug Enaa Greene, author of the upcoming book on Specters of Communism: Blanqui and Marx, spoke on Irish socialist James Connolly as part of the ongoing Red History Lecture Series at the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge MA on August 2, 2014.
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8 Aug 2014 - 12:08am
2014 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Rally and March
Saturday, August 23
Boston Common Visitor Center
Boston, MA
Rally 2:00 p.m. followed by a March to the North End for more speakers and music
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3 Aug 2014 - 6:42pm
BOSTON/Copley Square – Following the Israeli assault on the Palestinian territories that began last month, pro-Palestinian activists picketed on the sidewalk between Copley Sq. and Boston Public Library on Saturday.
