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Radio Boston rundown for May 11. Tiziana Dearing is our host.
After two weeks of testimony in Boston s federal court, jurors now are deciding whether former Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia is guilty of stealing from investors and extorting tens of thousands of dollars from marijuana businesses looking to operate in the city. We re joined by Ben Berke, the South Coast Bureau reporter for The Public s Radio in Rhode Island, who s been covering the trial since it began.
The FDA has cleared the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in children 12 to 15 years old. This comes as cases continue to drop in the commonwealth, more restrictions are eased, and close to 3 million Massachusetts residents are now fully vaccinated. Still, indoor mask mandates remain, as do gathering size restrictions. We answer all your questions in another edition of Ask the Doctors. This week, we re joined by Dr. Christopher Gill, an infectious disease clinician and researcher who fo
By Reporter Staff
Reporter Staff
The Columbia Threadneedle Investments Boston Triathlon will return to the city this summer. The two-day event will once again be staged at Carson Beach, but this year it will be held a month later than usual, on the weekend of Aug. 28-29.
The competition is usually held in July, but organizers and state officials have agreed to push it later into the summer to “allow more time for race participants, volunteers, vendors, organizers, and the community to receive vaccinations as well as to follow all city and state guidelines,” according to the event’s founder and president, Michael O’Neil. The event was cancelled last year.
Former senator Scott Brown played a pivotal role in bringing back road races next month
By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated April 29, 2021, 2 hours ago
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In 2014, then-US Senate candidate Scott Brown, Dos Equis beer in hand, chatted with a fellow runner after finishing the Cinco de Miles 5k, a Cinco de Mayo-themed road race in Bedford, N.H. Brown quietly arranged a meeting last month between race organizers and Governor Charlie Bakerâs point people for the state s economic reopening, which helped set the stage for the announcement on Tuesday that road races and other outdoor athletic events would be back on the calendar as of May 10.Joshua Miller/Globe Staff
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By Steve Striffler, Special to the Reporter
April 1, 2021
Steve Striffler, Special to the Reporter
Last September, the real estate developer Accordia Partners LLC submitted plans to the Boston Planning Development Agency (BPDA) to create “Dorchester Bay City” (DBC), a mixed-use project featuring nearly six million square feet of new building –roughly the size of two Empire State Buildings on land located between the JFK/UMass stop, Harbor Point, and Carson Beach.
The proposal is a brash attempt to occupy the city’s last significant piece of waterfront and reflects the fact that Boston’s urban development model has long favored developers at the expense of local communities.