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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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City Councilors, police discuss ways to prevent BPD from exceeding overtime budget

Sam Trottenberg March 15, 2021
The department has likely already run-over this fiscal year.
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City Councilors propose Boston-level Conservation Corps

Olga Benacerraf March 10, 2021

Boston City Councilors Kenzie Bok and Michelle Wu are proposing a city-level “Conservation Corps” to support Boston’s climate and sustainability goals. Modeled after the Civilian Conservation...

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New report finds Boston Police Department lags in reform

Anna Stjernquist March 1, 2021
The report found department spending on oversight and community engagement decreased while spending on traditional policing initiatives — those focused on investigation and arrest — increased.
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Boston remains highly gentrified despite housing efforts

Madison Mercado February 18, 2021
Boston was ranked third most intensely gentrified city in the United States between 2013-2017. Neighborhoods like East Boston, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park and South Boston were most affected.
The Boston Public Library, a registered Boston landmark. A proposed update to the Massachusetts Constitution would extend landmark preservation privileges to buildings significant to Black and immigrant communities. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DFP FILE

Councilors call for expansion to City’s ‘landmark’ definition

Madison Mercado February 9, 2021
The change — proposed late January — would make it easier for sites significant to Boston’s Black and immigrant communities to be made city landmarks.
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