I was disappointed in the comment made by Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez referring to the possible move of ABCD to Bromley-Heath Youth and Family Center (The Cave) that it will be “not just a drop-in center, but a place people go…
Category: Opinion
Letter: Gazette does outstanding work
The quality of the work being done by the Gazette is outstanding. The Gazette hit the MBTA hard on its proposed changes to the Route 39 bus stops, which will be fewer under the MBTA plan. Elders and handicapped people need more…
Letter: Thanks for Arborway planting help
Thank you to the 24 volunteers (plus one dog) who braved the heat to help plant trees on the Arborway Hillside on June 1. The trees were funded by a Grow Boston Greener grant and include a combination of canopy and understory trees: nine shagbark…
Letter: Thanks to JPNDC for ed partnership
As the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation celebrates its Annual Meeting this week (May 29), I would like to thank them for all of their work in Jamaica Plain. The Adult Learning Program (ALP) has partnered with the JPNDC for…
Politics as Unusual: TV news: Forget that mayoral race, here’s a celebrity baby
From what I’m told, Boston used to be a place where residents primarily had two interests—sports and politics. They loitered in dark barrooms, commiserated over Red Sox heartbreak, and when election cycles rolled around, they jousted viciously, debating over who…
Politics as Unusual: Look who’s filling the mayoral campaign war chests
It’s both sad and typical that candidates with fat pockets are always considered frontrunners, both in the current sprint for Boston City Hall and in any other race. More often than not, those sitting on the tallest money piles are…
Politics as Unusual: Hyde Park is an unpredictable election powerhouse
I relocated to Boston almost a decade ago, before most non-military civilians had GPS devices. Though I eventually came to love some perks of the Hyde Park neighborhood I moved to—the delicious and elusive BC Bakery, for one—looking back, it…
Editorial: The parklet boondoggle
The up-to-$25,000 cost of JP’s City-funded “parklet,” aka free sidewalk seating for private businesses, is as amazing as the fact that it took a Gazette Freedom of Information Act request to get that number. The parklet program looks like a…
Editorial: Unleash the dog-walking talk
While we are not convinced that the Franklin Park Coalition’s proposal for off-leash dog permitting in the park is the best idea or the product of a thorough discussion, we are grateful that the coalition had the guts and brains…
Editorial: Close the historic review loophole
Whether the 120-year-old former home of Dr. Marie Zakrzewska—founder of today’s Dimock Community Health Center and a member of Boston’s historic feminist and abolitionist circles—should have been saved for posterity is debatable. The problem is, we are only having that…