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95 Everett Street in Allston-Brighton. A new development at 95 Everett Street, which is a part of the 119 Braintree Street project, will receive government funding after Mayor Michelle Wu announced $69 million in funding for affordable housing developments. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

New funding for affordable housing will help development in Allston-Brighton

George Lehman March 26, 2024
New housing developments on 95 Everett Street in Allston-Brighton will receive government funding after Mayor Wu announced $69 million in funding for affordable housing developments throughout Boston on Friday.
President and executive director of Fore River Residents Against the Compression Station Alice Arena speaks at a town hall on climate change hosted by Divest BU Saturday. AUSMA PALMER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Divest BU holds town hall on fossil fuel investment policies

Ellie Yeo December 9, 2019
Divest BU held a town hall in CAS Saturday to discuss the importance of divestment from fossil fuels and examine the ways BU students can change the university’s policies on fossil fuel investments.
Kim Chambers in “Kim Swims” (2017). COURTESY OF KATE WEBBER/ KIM SWIMS LLC.

Boston Women’s Film Festival highlights female resilience in film industry

Eleanor Ho October 4, 2018
Museum of Fine Arts and the Brattle Theatre hosted the inaugural Boston Women’s Film Festival and hosted screening for films that women featured in, such as “What They Had.”
Protesters for the “Fight for $15” movement gather at the Massachusetts State House Tuesday afternoon. PHOTO BY CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protesters rally outside of State House, ask to increase minimum wage

Ezgi Toper November 30, 2016

More than 600 people rallied in the Great Hall at the Massachusetts State House Tuesday afternoon to campaign for a $15 minimum wage legislation as a part of the National Day of Action. Throughout...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh speaks at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston on Saturday. He and other mayors in the Boston Area are joining together in the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition to fight climate change. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston-area mayors come together to fight climate change

Nathan Bindseil November 22, 2016

Mayors of 14 municipalities around Greater Boston signed a Climate Mitigation Commitment, which pledges that their communities will collaborate to halt the progress of climate change, according to a...

EDIT: A Fear of the Unknown

EDIT: A Fear of the Unknown

Editors October 15, 2014

It’s the strange word on the tip of everyone’s tongues. The foreign virus we had always heard about, but never thought would permeate the United States. It’s Ebola, and ever since several Americans...

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