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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Senate confirms Marty Walsh as Secretary of Labor

Madison Mercado March 23, 2021
City Council President Kim Janey stepped up as acting mayor — the first woman and person of color.
Police officers deploying a chemical agent

Councilors retry chemical, projectile crowd control reform

Daniel Kool February 26, 2021
The proposed restriction would that police use chemical weapons and impact projectiles only if a supervising officer witnesses violence or destruction of property and determines the situation cannot be controlled or de-escalated.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. If Walsh is confirmed by the Senate as Labor Secretary, he will look to take his labor- and community-oriented values to Washington. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

Recap of Walsh’s mayoral legacy

Daniel Kool January 28, 2021
At 21, he joined Boston’s Laborers Local 223 Union, maintaining active involvement for over 20 years. Now, the 53-year-old is being pulled to D.C., where he awaits a likely confirmation as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor.
President-elect Joe Biden nominated Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as Labor secretary Thursday. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

Biden taps Walsh for Secretary of Labor

Daniel Kool January 7, 2021
As Labor secretary, Walsh would oversee a range of federal laws including minimum wage and overtime securities, as well as anti-discrimination policies and workplace safety regulations.
The clock on Boston University’s Charles River Campus. The clock’s designer, Thomas Erb, says his business is facing new challenges amid the coronavirus outbreak.  RACHEL SHARPLES/ DFP FILE

Small businesses hit hardest as pandemic takes its toll

Vanessa Kjeldsen April 23, 2020
The clock at the center of Boston University’s campus keeps ticking. But for many small businesses, including the clock's creator, time waits for no one.
Lessons from the Left: The alt-right’s history in America

Lessons from the Left: The alt-right’s history in America

Anna Stroinski March 25, 2018
The alt-right is understandably scary. Made up of small bands of white supremacist groups bound together by their vicious animosity toward marginalized communities, the alt-right is armed, militarized and angry because they can be. Though groups vary from khaki-wearing “intellectual” white nationalism to backwater Georgia militias defending themselves against an overreaching government, they’ve successfully bastardized two constitutional rights — that of free speech and that of bearing arms.
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