if Winn thinks that green-lighting affordable housing projects with 100-plus units in our fair city is an onerous process, try living at Walden Square Road in the coming years.
Working with disengaged kids is about relationships, but attendance policies allow for disengagement without prioritizing connections that might turn it around.
Leaving children and educators in inadequate swing space for more time than necessary, with no apparent solution for the next building failure, should not be an option.
It is the responsibility of elected leaders to review and determine which projects would benefit those in greater need, rather than outsourcing this crucial task of spending $2 million to a popularity contest than can be swayed by those with more resources.
Over the past few years, I’ve been rebuilding my ward in Cambridge. As a state committee member, I look forward to supporting all chairs in our district.
Although the poor and low-income account for an astounding 40 percent of the U.S. population, their problems are not recognized by our nation’s policies, laws or legislation. As a result, 250,000 people die every year.
A silent, black-clad mourning procession of hundreds of people accompanied by drums made its somber way through Boston’s crowded Back Bay shopping district Saturday. Cambridge was well represented in the procession.