This semester has been all about change. Coming into the fall term, I had no idea what was going happen. The Daily Free Press was at a pivotal moment in its 44-year life. Either the staff and I were...
November 10, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For 44 years, The Daily Free Press has been covering city and campus news as the only independent, student-run newspaper at Boston University. The FreeP was formed...
Former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and co-director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University died Thursday. He was 71 and diagnosed with an advanced cancer shortly after leaving office in January.
Menino’s...
If you're reading this, congratulations, you've made it to the inside pages of The Free Press, and I thank you for getting this far! As I'm sure you know (or at least I hope you do), The Daily Free Press...
The Boston Fire Department responded to a nine-alarm blaze that started on the back deck of an apartment on Harvard Terrace Wednesday evening, which injured five firefighters and left 54 residents displaced...
A year ago I got a text from my editor from The Daily Free Press that read, “Two bombs went off at the Marathon finish line. Can you check it out?” I had no idea what he was talking about. I gathered...
With less than one month until he is expected to leave office, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino gave his final major address as mayor to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and visited a political science...
Emotions ran high, words were exchanged and families of the victims of James “Whitey” Bulger’s crimes had the chance to speak their mind to the ex-mobster at a sentencing hearing Wednesday at...
A federal judge ruled Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in South Boston that the government has until Jan. 31 to decide if they will seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar...
Attorney and small business owner Josh Zakim defeated attorney Michael Nichols in the District 8 City Council race to fill former District 8 Councilor Michael Ross.
With all precincts reporting, Zakim...
Mass. Rep. Martin Walsh narrowly defeated City Councilor John Connolly to become Boston’s first new mayor in 20 years.
With all precincts reported, Walsh received 51.55 percent of the vote, or 72,514...
A lawyer for Azamat Tazhayakov, one of the college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who allegedly disposed of evidence during the aftermath of the bombings, argued in the U.S....
