By Richard Rouse Special to the Gazette Since a fire closed down the Green Tea Coffee shop two years ago, Brigham Circle business advocates have been hankering for a new first-class java spot. The clean and colorful Solid Ground Café…
Op-ed Joint Statement from Organizations Serving Communities of Color on the Lack of Diversity in the State Legislature, Particularly in the Education Committee
As members and representatives of African-American, Latinx and Asian- American serving communities and organizations, we are disheartened by the abrupt removal of Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz from the Joint Committee on Education at a critical time when the State Legislature is…
Op-ed My First Few Weeks as State Representative
By Representative Nika Elugardo Many have asked me about my first few weeks as State Representative for the 15th Suffolk/Norfolk District. Exciting. Challenging. Hopeful. We had two weeks to file legislation, and two more weeks to review over 6,000 bills…
Massachusetts Greenworks Is an Investment in Our Present — and Future
The announcement last week by House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo that the state will be investing $1 billion over the next decade to help communities across Massachusetts adopt technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fortify infrastructure is welcome news…
CAMH Votes on Three New Projects
Around 35 people gathered at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Wednesday, January 16, for the first meeting of 2019 of the Community Alliance of Mission Hill (CAMH). Those in attendance included about 16 Mission Hill residents,…
CAMH Escucha Propuestas De Tres Proyectos Locales
Alrededor de 35 personas se reunieron en la escuela de salud pública Harvard T.H. Chan el miércoles, 16 de enero, para la primera reunión de 2019 de la Alianza Comunitaria de Mission Hill (CAMH). Los asistentes incluyeron a unos dieciséis…