LOCAL NEWS
City council hears minority contractors' business problemsThe Boston City Council Committee on Ways and Means joined forces with Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO) to hold a public hearing in Roxbury on ways to improve the bidding and payment process for city-funded construction contracts. More » |
BUILD preps students for entrepreneurship, college"We all have dreams, don't we?" That's how a group of entrepreneurs-in-training called Dream Team grabbed the audience's attention at the recent BUILD Youth Business Plan Competition. More » |
North Bennet Street School teaches traditional trades"We are working away from being Boston's best kept secret," says Rob O'Dwyer, director of admissions at the North Bennet Street School. The school, nestled between the bistros and bakeries of the North End, attracts students from all over the world. But this isn't the traditional university setting in Boston. The smell of fresh sawdust is in the air and students are hunched over projects and machines instead of books. More » |
More minority teachers, mentors needed in HUB public schoolsA good teacher is a good teacher. Students know when they have one, and so do their parents. A good teacher inspires and motivates students to learn and deftly tailors lessons so each child in class "gets it." In an ideal classroom, the race or ethnicity of the teacher or the students does not matter. Good teachers can and do successfully instruct students of all backgrounds. More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
Rising debt plaguing seniors' Golden YearsBALTIMORE -- Norman Harvel is growing old under a mountain of debt. At 60, Harvel faces medical and credit card bills topping $80,000. Yet he is unable to work, having been injured at a job site more a decade ago. The former building maintenance worker now lives on $904 a month in Social Security disability benefits. More » |
Wisconsin vote may augur dangerous national trendGovernor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican whose agenda of union busting and gutting public services outraged many in the state, became the only governor to have survived a recall election in American history last week as he prevailed over his Democratic opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. More » |
WORLD NEWS
Gold in Haiti brings hope for economic boonA significant discovery of gold and other precious metals in Haiti's Northeastern mountain range has given residents hope. Once mining begins in about five years, the revenues may offer the resources needed to transform a country beset by poverty and ravaged by earthquakes and disease into an emerging island economy. More » |
