FREE COMMUNITY KAYAKING
GREETINGS FRIENDS, this is an invitation from The HarborKeepers for everyone to participate for free in the fun activity of KAYAKING. In this day and age, with climate change [...]
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People With Mental Illness Face Acute Dangers During and After Police Encounters
By VICTORIA LAW, Truthout July 11, 2021 On February 25, 2019, Karrie Schaaf drove to the local emergency room, desperate to find help for her son Darik. It was not the first [...]
Why the Neoliberal Drive to Privatize Everything Is Running Out of Gas
By RICHARD D. WOLFF Most Chileans recently voted out the remnants of military dictator Augusto Pinochet, along with Milton Friedman’s policies and many U.S. interventions. [...]
Boston Public Health Commission
BPS welcomes a new student representative to the Boston School Committee
Boston School Committee Student Representative Xyra Mercer, a junior at the Dr. William W. Henderson K-12 Inclusion School in Dorchester. Photo courtesy City of Boston. [...]
People Paid a Big Price for Prematurely Dropping Pandemic Measures a Century Ago
St. Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty during the Spanish Influenza epidemic, 1918. Photograph shows mask-wearing woman holding stretchers at backs of ambulances. PHOTO 12 / UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES. [...]
A New Day in Boston?
Boston closed Women’s History Month in 2021 with an event that will undoubtedly find its place in textbook pages. For the first time since its founding, three hundred [...]
East Boston: A Raceway
Honestly, the issue of speed on the streets is a very complex issue. In every country, there are speed problems, accidents, hit-and-runs, and deaths, and East Boston is no [...]
Mayor Walsh announces expansion of Boston’s Paid Parental Leave Policy
BOSTON – Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced the past March, Friday 19, the expansion of the City of Boston’s Paid Parental Leave Policy for eligible employees. These changes [...]
Delay Reopening Schools
Over the past year, MassCOSH has worked closely with teachers’ unions to advocate for the health and safety protections needed to ensure a safe return to in-person [...]