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Residents are charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly on Thursday for participating in a sit-in outside of Gov. Charlie Baker’s office. PHOTO BY RACHEL SHARPLES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Climate change activists reprimanded in protest sit-in at Baker’s office

Jordan Kimmel November 21, 2017

Twenty-six people were charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly Thursday evening after protesting the use of non-renewable energy outside of Gov. Charlie Baker’s office past public hours. Backed...

James Stergios, a public policy expert at the Pioneer Institute, has been elected to the Boston University Board of Overseers. PHOTO COURTESY PIONEER INSTITUTE

BU names notable alumni to university boards

Laney Ruckstuhl February 27, 2017

Boston University announced Thursday it had recently appointed an ESPN journalist and a public policy expert, both BU alum, to its Board of Trustees and Board of Overseers. Kevin Merida, senior...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, along with other city and environmental officials, held a press briefing Thursday morning at City Hall to discuss the Climate Ready Boston report on climate change. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Walsh introduces final version of Climate Ready Boston

Ludi Wang December 9, 2016

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced the final report of Climate Ready Boston, a city initiative to prepare Boston for climate change impacts, at a Thursday morning press conference at City Hall. Walsh...

PHOTO BY STREETWISE CYCLE/CREATIVE COMMONS

EDIT: Massachusetts Ballot Question 2

Editors October 28, 2014

Massachusetts has long been at the forefront of the nation’s push to protect the environment. With the intent of increasing recycling rates, the Commonwealth passed the "Bottle Bill” in 1983, a law...

Patrick travels to Latin countries for trade mission

Daily Free Press Admin March 17, 2014

As globalization tightens its grip on the world economy, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick traveled to Panama Monday for the start of a weeklong trade mission that will focus on forging new relationships...

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