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Boston City Hall. Boston City Council withdrew a proposition for a ceasefire in Gaza, citing concerns over future division, during a meeting on Wednesday. SYDNEY ROTH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Boston City Council retracts proposition for cease-fire

Daily Free Press Staff February 16, 2024
Boston City Council did not pass, nor discuss, a cease-fire resolution during Wednesday’s meeting, spurring questions as neighboring cities pass resolutions while Boston stays silent. 
Hasan Murat Mercan Turkish Ambassador

Key figures of Turkey relief efforts give thanks to Boston community for contributions

Nicole Gonzalez March 1, 2023
Leaders, local business owners and volunteers spoke at an event on Sunday hosted by the Freerange Market, owned by Cenk Emre. The Medford-based market turned collection site is responsible for donating over five million dollars and ten truckloads of supplies to relief efforts in Turkey and Syria.
MBTA Green Line extension – Lechmere

Decades later, Green Line opens in Somerville

Yoko Zhu March 25, 2022
Starting on March 21, the Green Line runs to Union Square Station in Somerville.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Gentrification and the Green Line Extension, over 30 years of MBTA mishaps

Editors March 24, 2022
The immigrants, blue-collar workers and middle-class families that make up Somerville are vital to Greater Boston’s dynamic culture, and deserve to know that the City’s development won’t happen at their expense.
Boston University environmental analysis and policy student Keeley Bombard. In her work at the environmental nonprofit Ocean River Institute, Bombard relays constituent feedback to legislators regarding environmental concerns and initiatives. COURTESY OF ROB MOIR

BU senior connects residents to their legislators while interning at environmental nonprofit

Claire Law October 27, 2021
Keeley Bombard is the fall intern at the Ocean River Institute in Cambridge.
children light candles at a stop asian hate protest

Activists call for equity, representation in response to anti-Asian violence

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 28, 2021
Panelists discussed systemic inequity, the model minority myth and openly racist hate crimes.
The City of Boston has partnered with Helpsy, a textile collection company, to add 10 textile recycling drop boxes around the city. COURTESY OF HELPSY

New textile-recycling drop boxes aim to reduce waste in Boston

Emily Stevenson November 24, 2020
The City of Boston, in partnership with textile collection company Helpsy, has added 10 textile recycling drop boxes across various neighborhoods to work toward its goal of becoming a “zero-waste city.”
“The Many Faces of Our Mental Health” exhibit opened Tuesday at Tufts University. The project was conceived of by artist Lynda Cutrell to destigmatize mental illness. JULIA MARUCA / DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Tufts SMFA presents a series on mental health stigma

Julia Maruca January 27, 2019
The “99 Faces Project” is an exhibit that shows people living with bipolar disease, schizophrenia and friends and relatives of people with mental illnesses.
Robert Colbert, a former security guard at Boston University’s Warren Towers dormitory, passed away Nov. 4. FELIX PHILLIPS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston University mourns the loss of Warren Towers security guard

Susannah Sudborough November 11, 2018
Robert Colbert, formerly a security guard in Warren Towers, passed away Nov. 4.
Boston University alumna Monica Kang speaks Wednesday at the Pardee School about her book, “Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire, and Thrive at Work.” COURTESY OF SARAH SCHUMANN

Alumna Monica Kang examines how to ‘Rethink Creativity’ in new book at Pardee

Eduard Miska October 15, 2018
Monica Kang stood in front of professors and students alike Wednesday and told the students, in particular, to relax: bad grades won’t end a career. She discussed her new book, “Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire, and Thrive at Work" and explained embracing creativity encourages self-discovery.
The new MBTA Green Line train. Boston will soon receive a fleet of new Green Line cars. PHOTO COURTESY JOE PESATURO

In with the new: the Green Line fleet is getting bigger

Shaun Robinson March 28, 2018
Starting this summer, the Green Line is going to look a little different. The first of 30 new Green Line cars has arrived in Newton for testing, a major step in the process of expanding Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority service north beyond what will be a relocated Lechmere Station, where it currently ends, to Medford. The new cars will be introduced into the system starting in July, even though the new extension won’t open for several more years.

EDITORIAL: New MBTA plan will help get us on the right track

Editors December 1, 2017

So long as the MBTA’s latest initiative goes according to plan, by 2020, the way people pay for public transportation in Boston will be entirely revolutionized. In a meeting on Monday, the Massachusetts...

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