Boston mayors have pledged to increase the city’s tree canopy for decades, and while the latest effort to do so seems to be in earnest, we have heard that refrain before. And yet, the extent of the canopy declined from 29 to 27 percent over the last 12 years. Bottom line: Our city departments don’t make trees a priority. Boston needs to add trees everywhere, but especially in
Dorchester Avenue is embarrassing. Though certain sections, like the Lower Mills area adjacent to Milton, are better planned and developed, the northern half is an uneven mess. Dot Ave, as residents refer to it, is supposed to be Dorchester’s prestigious main street for businesses and services, and a thoroughfare for travel to downtown, but it does none of these things well.
Dorchester Avenue is embarrassing. Though certain sections, like the Lower Mills area adjacent to Milton, are better planned and developed, the northern half is an uneven mess. Dot Ave, as residents refer to it, is supposed to be Dorchester’s prestigious main street for businesses and services, and a thoroughfare for travel to downtown, but it does none of these things well.
Bishop Desmond Tutu, part of a generation of anti-apartheid activists and revolutionaries who brought down a South African government built on racism, died on Dec. 26, 2021. As Anglican bishop in South Africa in the 1980s and 1990s, he became known world-wide as the heroic face of peaceful opposition to the apartheid government of South Africa. Massachusetts had a particularly
Elfreda Buffong had tried to get a booster shot for Covid-19 at a pharmacy chain only to be told it wasn’t currently available. But on Tuesday morning, the 63-year-old Dorchester resident was able to get her third dose of the BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine, thanks to the “Family Vaccination Clinic” at the Codman Square Health Center. “I’m just hoping that people will take the