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People Paid a Big Price for Prematurely Dropping Pandemic Measures a Century Ago

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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?

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Corporate greenwashing:

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

By GRAIN Corporations are ramping up their greenwashing to head-off any efforts to reign in their GHG emissions. After five years of having done nothing to move towards the [...]

Air Partners installed Air Quality Sensors in Little Folks Community Day-care Center classrooms

April 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

East Boston, MA – On March 31st, Air Partners installed Austin Air air purifiers as air quality sensors into classrooms at Little Folks Community Daycare Center, located in [...]

The Resignation of Tommy Chang

July 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

By Luis Bravo On June 22nd, Dr. Tommy Chang resigned as Superintendent of the Public Schools of Boston amidst growing scandals related to immigration and the mishandling of [...]

Editorial: What is “Decent Housing”?

July 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Having a place to live seems like something so normal now, that sometimes we skip over all that this implies. Having “decent housing” is something basic, which is [...]

The Shalom Report Ripping Children from Parents: Torah vs Trumpery

July 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

By The Rabbi, Arthur Waskow Dear friends, The night of Thursday, June 14, I took part in the coming–together of about a thousand people, jamming both sides of the street [...]