The Mayor’s Office and the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) are in the early stages of making major changes to how development is planned and executed in and around business districts, with Dorchester’s Codman Square and Fields Corner designated to test the concept. From eliminating parking requirements altogether to streamlining permissible commercial uses to
The Supreme Judicial Court on Friday set out ways that police can subpoena tens of thousands of cell-phone records to try to link specific phone calls to crimes, in a case in which they used the technique to connect a Canton man to the murder of Jose Luis Phinn Williams at a Washington Street gas station and to a series of other similar, if less deadly, robberies that year in
Former Boston mayoral candidate Andrea Campbell on Wednesday plans to launch her statewide campaign for attorney general in Dorchester’s Codman Square. Campbell, 39, joins a field that already includes a labor rights attorney and a government lawyer. Campbell, who as District 4 councillor represented Dorchester and Mattapan for six years and placed third in the 2021 mayoral