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Waving the Banner’s flag
One day in 1965, a young lawyer named Melvin Miller paid a visit to offices of the Boston Guardian, a neighborhood paper serving the black community.
Our duty to care
Through sheer tragic misfortune, Nelida Bagley has become an expert on our nation’s treatment of its wounded veterans and their relatives.
Brockton needs a spark
Al Montrand lives in Abington, but his heart and career are in Brockton. He sells real estate from an office in the middle of town, which is a lot harder than it was during the city’s partial renaissance a few years ago.
Surmounting a blue wall
The shameful beating of Officer Michael Cox at the hands of his fellow Boston police officers on Jan. 25, 1995, was the scandal that somehow failed to ignite.
A deficit of decency
The painful state budget hammered out last week left Gary Blumenthal shaking his head. The executive director of the Association of Developmental Disabilities Providers is a veteran of the State House budget wars, and he certainly knows the state is in a recession. But this budget, he said, will be a disaster for the disabled people he represents.
A beacon of hope
CHELSEA - Angie Rodriguez remembers when she couldn’t shake Molly Baldwin. Angie was a gifted teenager throwing her talent away on the streets of Chelsea in an adolescent fog defined by girl gangs and silly behavior. Baldwin was the tenacious woman from Roca, the neighborhood social service agency, who kept offering help Angie didn’t think she needed.
This hope is home-grown
There was barely a ripple last week when Bill McGonagle was tapped to be the city's new landlord. That was, in itself, testament to the success of his singular career in city government.