After years of contentious debate over Native American mascots in school districts, some indigenous activists say it's time to take the decision out of local.
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For more than two decades, it was a symbol of decay and disinvestment – a once-bustling, but now-abandoned Boston Police station house left to rot when officers moved to new quarters a few blocks away in 1988. Last Friday, as elected officials and dignitaries from across the city gathered for a ribbon-cutting of a new housing complex dubbed Morton Station Village, the
Boston is taking another crack at trying to impose a 2% tax on big-ticket real estate transactions, which officials say is a necessary step to fund affordable housing development, but the proposal continues to face resistance from industry groups.