Boston City Councilor At-Large Michael F. Flaherty recently held a hearing of the Boston City Council’s Community Preservation Committee, in his role as Chair of the committee, to review and recommend the passage of the appropriation of $24,309,000 in FY20…
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Kathleen Gaskin Turns Upholstery Shop into Mask-Making Site
Special to the Gazette On Lamartine Street in Jamaica Plain, Kathleen Gaskin works into the night in her home-based upholstery shop, Decorator’s Workroom. While the popular shop across from the Stony Brook Orange Line stop is closed because of the…
BPDA Welcomes Brian Miller as Newest Member of Board
The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) last week announced Brian Miller as the newest member of the BPDA Board. A resident of South Boston, Miller is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley, and founder of The Miller Group at…
Elugardo Endorses Dr. Goldstein in his Bid for Congress
This week, State Rep. Nika Elugardo (D-Boston) endorsed Dr. Robbie Goldstein’s campaign for Congress. Dr. Goldstein looks to unseat long-term congressman Stephen Lynch in the Massachusetts 8th Congressional district, citing a need for more public health officials in Congress as…
Arboretum’s Lilac Sunday 2020 is Cancelled
In keeping with CDC and Harvard COVID-19 guidelines for large gatherings, The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is canceling Lilac Sunday 2020. All formal activities such as tours, family crafts and science, and performances scheduled for Sunday, May 10 are…
Unemployment Data Shows New Claims Are Overwhelmingly from White Residents
For the fourth week in a row, new unemployment claims were lower than the previous week, and new data from the state shows that more than 80 percent of new claims since March 15 came from residents describing themselves as…
Good Government Groups Warn of Power Consolidation by State Legislature
By Jonathan Cohn, Boston Ward 4 Democratic Committee While the world is focused on COVID-19, the Massachusetts House of Representatives proposed new operating rules that advocates say are an attempt to grab power while people are preoccupied. “People are dying,…
CPC Earmarks Three JP Projects to Receive Nearly $2 Million in Grants
By Dan Murphy Three Jamaica Plain projects have been recommended to receive grants totaling nearly $2 million from the fiscal ’20 Community Preservation Funds. The city’s Community Preservation Committee (CPC) has earmarked a $1.5 million Affordable Housing grant to help…
This Sunday Is Mother’s Day
During this time of unprecedented upheaval because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the rituals that most of us traditionally follow either have been eliminated or drastically changed because of the need to practice physical distancing. So too, the manner in which…
This Is No Time for Hooverism
Herbert Hoover had been President for about seven months when the stock market crashed in October, 1929. Although there have been many causes attributed to the onset of the Great Depression, the crash generally is viewed as the trigger point…