Teens take over City Hall in Boston Climate Strike
“Specifically, a just transition from fossil fuel infrastructure to one that’s based in renewable energy,” Mitra said, outlining some of the climate strikers’ demands. “Also a declaration of climate and ecological emergency so that they can actually take action.

Legislators agree on ed. funding bill
“It is a major and victorious step on the road toward true education funding reform and equity,” said state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, the former co-chair of the Education Committee and a co-sponsor of the Promise Act, an education funding bill from which the Student Opportunity Act drew heavily.

Campbell calls for inspector general
“This is position is about bringing in someone who can proactively, not reactively, look at our departments, how they spend their money, look at our policies and questions that will ensure transparency and accountability,” she said, “as well as...

Panelists discuss Hub school desegregation
“We still struggle in Massachusetts with how we fund education,” said NAACP Boston Branch President Tanisha Sullivan, speaking during an event marking the 45th anniversary of Garrity’s desegregation decision.

A divisive name-change campaign
With so many issues of importance confronting Boston’s black community, it is embarrassing for residents to waste their time on whether the name of Dudley Square should be changed to Nubian Square. Nonetheless, a nonbinding public opinion advisory question will be on the Nov.

A plan for transparency
Citizens are understandably disturbed by accounts of bribery or the theft of taxpayer funds, but the incompetence of office holders is usually not openly criticized, although it can be equally damaging.

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The GOP is Trump’s party
Trump has managed to do something Reagan could not do, and neither of the Bushes could do: He’s made the GOP totally and completely his GOP. The recent Gallup Poll numbers bear out this perverse feat. He registered the highest approval rating among Republicans of any president.

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Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Taylor Cain has been appointed as director of the City of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab (i-Lab). As director, Cain will lead citywide efforts to pioneer innovative housing models and systems, and accelerate the pace of innovation in the housing sector that promotes inclusion and equity across Boston neighborhoods.

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I am very concerned. I think life as we know it is going to change. It’s already impacting people around the world, people who are already struggling with poverty..

Lady Cougars
Snowden-Fenway High School Lady Cougars Soccer Team Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at a tied game against New Mission High School at The Reservation Road Soccer Field in Hyde Park, MA..

A deadly fight to preserve Honduran water ways, land
For years, Irma Lemus fought mining companies, hydroelectric power companies and palm oil plantations that encroached on the land in her community in Honduras. She received death threats, 32 other environmental activists were imprisoned and several were assassinated.

People’s Plan Assembly rallies for rent control
Local activists from City Life/ Vida Urbana, Right to the City Boston, Keep it 100% for Egleston, Reclaim Roxbury and other local housing activist groups gathered with community members in the sunny recreation room of the Vietnamese American Community Center in Fields Corner to discuss the problem of climbing rent prices and resident displacement.

Debt collectors target consumers of color
Proposed earlier this year by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Kathleen Kraninger, the rule would authorize debt collectors to expand how often consumers could be contacted as well as the ways such contacts could be made: email, text messages, and more.

Muslim mental health clinic opens
The mission of the clinic, located at 55 Warren St., is to provide high-quality behavioral health services with a holistic approach designed with the needs of underserved and low-income families in mind. The specific focus of the Community Caring Clinic is mental health and stigma within the Muslim refugee and immigrant communities.

The Crucible
Through Oct. 20, The Nora Theatre Company and New York based Bedlam are reimagining Arthur Miller’s classic “The Crucible” on the Central Square Theater Stage in Cambridge. This production highlights the absurdity and humor of the dark human nature Miller exposes.

For your ears only
In Chinatown’s Chin Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a bright yellow shipping container has appeared nestled among chessboards and strings of paper lanterns near the Chinatown Gate. As neighbors draw closer to the structure, notes of a melody waft from its metal walls.

Scullers celebrates 30 years of jazz
Expanding the definition of what jazz is and isn’t, on Sept. 27, at 8 and 10 p.m. is The Midnight Hour, started in 2018 by Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest and producer/ composer Adrian Younge. At Scullers, they will be joined by Angela Munoz, Jack Waterson and Lauren Oden.

Peace on the Pier
COURTESY PHOTO On Friday, September 20, Children’s Services of Roxbury hosted “Peace on the Pier” at Boston Children’s Museum, an event that featured a Waterside Chat, where Youth and Police in Partnership peer leaders asked questions about...