Better Wages For Trillium employees
This week Trillium raised some of its workers hourly-wages after it was revealed that the Fort Point craft brewery cut some of the employee’s pay from $8 and hour to [...]
Boston City Council Passes Edwards-Flynn Ordinance to Help 
Low-Income Elders Repay Back Taxes
The Boston City Council voted unanimously to support a tax repayment ordinance filed by Lydia Edwards (District 1) and Ed Flynn (District 2). The ordinance helps elders who have fallen [...]
Groundbreaking: O’Connor Way Senior Housing in Southie
From the Mayor’s office: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), and the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) today celebrated the groundbreaking of the O'Connor Way Senior [...]
Quite a morning in Fort Point: Cab stolen & crashed
Before most of you were up. Before you even had a sip of coffee, the following shenanigans took place on Wednesday morning: A man allegedly stole a cab from South [...]
Welcome to the Neighborhood: USS Thomas Hudner
You may have noticed the warship docked at the Flynn Cruise Terminal in Southie this week! Well, it’s US Navy’s newest destroyer - the USS Thomas Hudner and she’s being [...]
Councilors Flaherty & Flynn To Hold SB Waterfront Transit Plan Hearing Fri. Nov. 30th
BOSTON – Boston City Councilor At-Large Michael F. Flaherty and Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn will hold a hearing at the City Council this Friday, November 30th at 10am regarding [...]
Hang onto your hats! Developers not playing by the affordable housing rules.
Well, this is outrageous. The development that was built at 135 Athens Street/160 West Broadway was supposed to designated two of the 15 units would be sold at affordable units. [...]
Frontage Road Parcel: Is Midtown on the horizon?
Looks like there could be more development is on the horizon for the Frontage Road Parcel - a city owned parcel of land that touches Southie, Dot and the South [...]
Northern Avenue Bridge: What’s in store
The Northern Avenue Bridge was built in 1908 and is a piece of history currently sitting in the Fort Point Channel waiting to figure out what’s in store for its [...]
Important City Council Hearings Coming Up This Week
Corporate Tax Transparency Thursday, November 29 @ 1:30pm Hearing to examine the benefits to taxpayers of tax breaks given to corporations by the city. Panelist: Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First [...]