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Three months after the Boston City Council passed a home rule petition for a boosted pension for Al Curry, a Black firefighter who said he was subjected to a racist attack in the 1980s, Mayor Wu has yet to sign off on the proposal.
In a farewell column, Miller reflected on his long career at the Banner, where he covered a wide range of issues, from opioid use to the charter school movement to Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
As the Legislature mulls a slate of proposals aimed at addressing the housing crisis, the body includes more lawmakers who could lose income from the return of rent control than lawmakers who would benefit from its protections, a Globe investigation found.
A new bill proposed in Massachusetts would allow incarcerated individuals the option of donating their organs in exchange for a reduction in their sentences. The bill's authors believe the move will "restore bodily autonomy" to inmates, but ethics experts say it's potentially exploitative and may also be illegal.