The deadline for What’s Up listings is noon, Dec. 11 for the Dec. 14 issue. Email listings to [email protected]. Meetings Northeastern Task Force, planning NU’s next institutional master plan. Thurs., Nov. 15, Dec. 20, 6pm, location TBD. Info: northeastern.edu/masterplan. Emerald…
Author: Gazette Staff
Good Reading
Editorial: Your 10 choices for president
We do not endorse candidates for office. But we do endorse your right to know who all of the candidates are. Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney are not your only choices. There will be four presidential candidates on…
Editorial: A planning partnership
The Boston Redevelopment Authority is to be commended for creating a “corridor plan” for rapidly changing S. Huntington Avenue. It’s late, but not too late, and it shows a responsiveness to community concerns that the BRA has long sorely lacked.…
Editorial: Giving thanks
Veterans Day and Thanksgiving arrive this month, and the state of the nation gives both a somber tone. With the official end of the Afghanistan war in sight, veterans will be welcomed home, but often to a lack of jobs…
Letter: Celebrate Tainos, not Columbus
As Youth Leaders at Sociedad Latina, we spent Columbus Day learning and talking about what actually happened when Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. In school, we’ve all learned that Columbus is an American hero. But as we got older,…
Off the Rails
What’s Happening on Main Streets
By Richard Rouse/Special to the Gazette As the leaves cascade from the trees, we see 2012 coming to a close and traditional local events filling our calendars. Mission Hill Main Streets has planted flower bulbs again (with help from dedicated…