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Boston has been awarded a $280,070 heat resilience grant, which will help the city develop more resilient infrastructure to combat rising sea levels, stronger storms and extreme heat. ELIZA SHAW/ DFP FILE

City awarded grant to combat excess heat as climate change effects compound

Samuele Petruccelli October 14, 2020
The City has been awarded a $280,070 Municipal Vulnerabilities Preparedness Action Grant from the state to fund a study on heat resilience, the Mayor’s Office announced Saturday. 
Gov. Charlie Baker files an act requesting $200 million in Chapter 90 funding for transportation projects around Massachusetts. PHOTO BY ABIGAIL FREEMAN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Gov. Baker requests $200 million in transportation funding

Jordan Kimmel February 22, 2017

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker called for $200 million in Chapter 90 funds to progress local transportation infrastructure projects throughout the state, according to a Thursday press release...

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announces the 2017 program for Love Your Block, a program that builds community morale through neighborhood cleanups. PHOTO BY DYLAN KIM/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Walsh expands citywide neighborhood beautification effort

Carina Imbornone February 9, 2017

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Feb. 3 that the Love Your Block project, a high-impact service initiative aimed at cleaning up Boston neighborhoods, will now be a permanent program in the city,...

Abigail Skelton, student services and data manager at Northeastern University, explains to several Boston University and Northeastern graduate students how to create and understand a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a large amount of data in several tables at a HUBweek data journalism hackathon. PHOTO BY NATALIE CARROLL/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

HUBweek’s hackathon urges journalists to seek stories in numbers

AnnMarie Barenchi October 4, 2016

Trading in pitches for data sets, journalists and data lovers alike came together to trade skill sets and share tips during HUBweek’s first annual “Data Science, Journalism, and the Future of Justice”...

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