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NEWS TO US: BUENA VISTA CONSERVATION CLUB
Teens take on local parks In the middle of the Warren Gardings apartment complex is Buena Vista, the only natural setting in the Roxbury neighborhood. Teenagers in blue shirts reading “Student...
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NEWS TO US: DEFERRED ACTION
Sixty people are gathered in the small conference room of the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council on a Friday night. Some arrived with small children, currently playing across the narrow hallway...
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OCCUPY BOSTON RADIO FUNDRAISER: #S30
We don’t know if there will be a new camp, but we do know there will be a party. Sunday, September 30 marks the one year anniversary of Occupy Boston. While there are rumblings of a new encampment at...
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NEWS TO US: BOSTON LATINO CONFERENCE
Photo: VoteLatino.org Latino vote, Latino power Even though every politician wants the Latino vote, none of them seem too concerned with the actual problems facing the Latino community. “There are more...
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FIRST ANNUAL BOSTON LATINO CONFERENCE
“We’re no longer left out. It might take us a little longer to catch up, but we’re not left out.” Local leaders and citizens of Boston’s Latino community met Saturday in the East Boston Social Club for...
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SOAPBOX: IMMIGRANTS, IN-STATE TUITION, IGNORANCE, (AND YOU)
In a letter sent Monday, November 19 to the Board of Higher Education, Governor Deval Patrick said that undocumented immigrants living in Massachusetts are now eligible for in-state tuition, instead of...
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OCCUPY ADVENT
“If Christmas is what commercials, malls, and decorations tell us it is, then please take my Christ out of Christmas.” PHOTOS BY MELANIE RIEDERS A small group of religious Occupiers, with signs,...
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SOAPBOX: CARDINAL SEAN DOESN’T CARE ABOUT LAWTOWN
Right now, Cardinal Sean O’Malley is kind of a media darling—the potential American Pope, more humble monk than greedy Catholic King. Bullshit. Full disclosure: I have some beef with Cardinal Sean....
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RAEKWON: THE RIGHT INGREDIENTS
‘I’m the Chef, man! You know I don’t wanna give the ingredients away.’ Raekwon first erupted onto the scene in 1993 as part of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, killing cuts like “C.R.E.A.M.” and “Protect Ya...
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BATTLE AT THE STATE HOUSE: TRANSPORTATION FUNDING
Photos By Ruthy Rickenbaker Update: On Wednesday the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board of Directors approved the MBTA’s budget, which currently does not call for any fare hikes or...
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BATTLE AT THE STATE HOUSE: RAISE THE WAGE
On Tuesday morning the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a public hearing on a new bill to raise the state’s minimum wage (SB 878/HB 1701), which, if passed, would be the first...
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LAWTOWN’S FINEST: THE LYRICAL RISE AND TRAGIC DEATH OF MASS RAP LEGEND...
Two decades ago, a promising MC from small post-industrial Lawrence dropped some of the most tragically slept-on rap gems of the ’90s, in the Bay State or anyplace else. The critical album was called...
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