Residents describe Mattapan as a center of Black life in Boston. A residential neighborhood in the south part of the city, it's been largely untouched by the kind of development changing the face of so much of Boston.
To the Editor: We are writing to ask state officials exercise their authority to file an appeal of the recent court action overturning their denial of the proposed electronic billboard by Boston Bowl. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is the only entity which has legal standing to defend its original decision to deny this harmful proposal which clearly violates
On a recent Thursday morning, well past rush hour, cars hurtled down Morrissey Boulevard, as cars coming off I-93 lined up for their turn onto the northbound side of the six-lane roadway. Cars occasionally turned into a small beach next to the towering National Grid gas tank. The UMass Boston campus sat in the distance, across Dorchester Bay. While the traffic was moving fast,