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Civic Boston: Officials React to Mattapan Murder Verdict
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Thursday, March 22, 2012. Officials React to Mattapan Murder Verdict. The following statements were issued by officials this afternoon in reaction to the verdict in the case for the 2010 murders in Mattapan. One of the two defendants accused of first degree murder in the killing of four people, Edward Washington, was acquitted on all charges. For the other defendant, Dwayne Moore, there was a mistrial on all charges, except for a guilty finding on one count of drug trafficking. 8220;There’s a great...
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Civic Boston: March 2012
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Thursday, March 22, 2012. Officials React to Mattapan Murder Verdict. The following statements were issued by officials this afternoon in reaction to the verdict in the case for the 2010 murders in Mattapan. One of the two defendants accused of first degree murder in the killing of four people, Edward Washington, was acquitted on all charges. For the other defendant, Dwayne Moore, there was a mistrial on all charges, except for a guilty finding on one count of drug trafficking. 8220;There’s a great...
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Civic Boston: November 2010
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Friday, November 12, 2010. Dorchester Swing Voters Find Way to Surprise. We chose to do a report on the November election in Boston by going to Florian Hall in Dorchester. The main reason was that Ward 16, Precinct 12 had the makings of a swing vote. As it turned out, the biggest difference from four years ago was the drop in support for the Republican ticket. Charlie Baker and Richard Tisei got a little more than 33% of the vote. As the managing editor of the Dorchester Reporter. One explanation for the...
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Civic Boston: How Federal Budget Showdown Affects Boston
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Friday, July 22, 2011. How Federal Budget Showdown Affects Boston. As President Obama and both houses of Congress negotiate over spending cuts and the national debt limit, advocates and providers of health care and social services are trying to get more attention for the possible toll on the needy. In a demonstration yesterday outside Government Center in Boston, they turned the heat on the state's Republican Senator in Washington, Scott Brown. Should there be a political compromise along more moderate l...
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Civic Boston: September 2012
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Friday, September 28, 2012. Into the Fog of Student Assignments. If there’s anything clear about changing student assignments in the Boston Public Schools, it’s that two key political figures—Mayor Thomas Menino and the chair of the City Council committee on Education John Connolly—want to see more children going to school in their own neighborhood. And Boston still has plenty of parents dissatisfied with the current system of school assignments. Since any new assignment plan is supposed to ensure access...
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Civic Boston: July 2011
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Friday, July 22, 2011. How Federal Budget Showdown Affects Boston. As President Obama and both houses of Congress negotiate over spending cuts and the national debt limit, advocates and providers of health care and social services are trying to get more attention for the possible toll on the needy. In a demonstration yesterday outside Government Center in Boston, they turned the heat on the state's Republican Senator in Washington, Scott Brown. Should there be a political compromise along more moderate l...
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Civic Boston: October 2010
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Saturday, October 9, 2010. From Vargas Llosa to Dorchester Avenue. I finally got around to reading an English translation of Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversación en La Catedral. A few years ago. The thick paperback had been stacked on a shelf at three different locations for as many decades. But I was hooked right away by the crapulous opening. And it’s even better in the original:. A newspaper reporter—let’s say a reporter washed out before he’s forty, or grey at noon and descolorido. To be precise, I thin...
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Civic Boston: Kevin White: A Neighborhood Perspective
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Kevin White: A Neighborhood Perspective. Kevin White reached the end of his tenure as Mayor of Boston in 1984, and the last 28 years have done little to change the thumbnail biography. Widely hailed as a visionary who did so much to reshape and revitalize downtown Boston, he inspires admiration, sympathy- and no small measure of criticism- for his dealings with the surrounding neighborhoods in the grip of polarization and dramatic change. With the renewal of Quincy Market in th...
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Civic Boston: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Shooting from the Hip near Codman Square? The news of a shooting on. Can easily evoke the terrible summer of 2005. Back then, the troubles on this street near. Included drug-dealing and prostitution. So it wasn’t altogether surprising that the pastor of a church a few blocks away, Rev. Bruce Wall, would occupy a building on the street and put the problems on the map. To begin with, as The Boston Globe. But is it a continuation of what happened in 2005? On a warm summer evening&#...
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