Former City Councilor Chuck Turner expects to be released from federal prison to a halfway house in Boston by next week, he said in an email to various contacts, including the Gazette. Turner, who formerly represented part of Jamaica Plain,…
Month: July 2013
Politics as Unusual: Conley’s troubling record of clearing cops who kill minorities
Word on the street is that the acquittal of George Zimmerman might catalyze a meaningful dialogue about race and power. In cities coast to coast, a conversation has already manifested, with the biggest protest crowds since Occupy uniting to express…
City: Sale of former Blessed Sacrament Church finalized
HYDE SQ.—The purchase of the former Blessed Sacrament Church building by the Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) from the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation (JPNDC) and New Atlantic Development has been finalized, according to Boston Redevelopment Authority spokesperson Melina Schuler…
Politics as Unusual: From ‘Con Cubed’ to ‘Walross’: Could this race have its ‘Floon’?
When historians are emphasizing just how strong a grip Mayor Tom Menino had on Boston politics, they’ll likely dote over his final scrap in the mud. By the time he reached his last election, the Urban Mechanic had already mauled…
Suffolk Construction offers training to minority and women contractors
Suffolk Construction, Boston’s largest construction firm, is inviting Jamaica Plain minority- and women-owned subcontractor firms to a special course in how to do business on Suffolk projects. The lack of opportunity for such firms on Boston construction projects has been…
‘Jamaica Plain’ author: Thriller series will be JP-based
The recent police thriller “Jamaica Plain” is just the first in a series of novels whose hero will continue to be based in JP, the English cop-turned-author penning the series told the Gazette. “The plan is that [series hero] Jim…
White Stadium could get $20m fix-up
By Ryan Deto/Special to the Gazette PARKSIDE—A $20 million renovation of Franklin Park’s White Stadium into a year-round facility is being proposed by Mayor Thomas Menino and a nonprofit founded by construction company magnate John Fish. The concept was met…
Mayoral candidate Barros wants to unite city
By Peter Shanley and John Ruch/Gazette Staff Growing up in Dudley Square in Roxbury during the 1970s and 1980s, Boston mayoral candidate John Barros said, other parts of the city seemed inaccessible to him. And though the city has…
Brewery Wedding
Hyde/Jackson gets ‘Avenida de las Americas’ signs
Centre Street in Hyde and Jackson Squares now has honorary street signs dubbing it “Avenida de las Americas,” or “Avenue of the Americas,” six years after the idea was approved by the Boston City Council. The signs, which do not…