LOCAL NEWS
Ferdinand redevelopment design nearing completionCity officials and the Ferdinand redevelopment project's design team presented the latest design plans last week for the new municipal building soon to rise on the old Ferdinand's Furniture store site in Dudley Square. The $115 million project's "design development" phase is nearing completion, said Maureen Anderson, senior project manager with the city's Property and Construction Management Department, at the July 12 meeting of the Dudley Vision Advisory Task Force. More » |
'Three strikes' bill up for vote this monthThirteen years to the day after his 27-year-old daughter, Melissa, was murdered, Les Gosule stood in front of the Massachusetts State House, pleading for the passage of a bill that aims to keep repeat violent criminals off the streets. "She ended up being kidnapped, taken to the woods in Halifax, tied to a tree, stripped, raped and stabbed by a person who had 27 convictions," said Gosule at last week's press conference. "Why did something like that happen?" More » |
NATIONAL NEWS
'Endgame' explores impact of HIV/AIDSFor the first time in two decades, the United States will host this year's International AIDS Conference, to be held next week in the nation's capital. Despite having a large number of new cases of HIV/AIDS, America has seemingly turned a blind eye to an epidemic that's been crippling communities within many of the country's biggest cities for nearly a quarter century. More » |
Was Romney's NAACP speech almost good?Give Mitt Romney credit. He addressed the NAACP's 103rd annual convention last week in Houston, made his case and gave African American voters -- who will still undoubtedly support President Barack Obama -- something to think about. Telling the members of the nation's oldest civil rights organization that "support is asked for and earned," Romney acknowledged the trust deficit between the GOP and many black voters, but he also argued that his campaign is "about helping the middle class in America" and that "the course the president has set won't do that." More » |
