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Teachers’ union holds walk-in City signs pricey police union deal while teachers’ contract talks drag By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Teachers mounted a walk-in protest at three Boston schools last Friday to draw attention to their stalled contract negotiations. The Boston Teachers Union’s bargaining with the city has snagged on several points around pay, teacher-to-student ratio for inclusionary classrooms and assignment for “excessed” teachers, according to BTU president Richard Stutman. A BTU press release also notes requests for paid parental leave for early-career teachers as well as smaller kindergarten class sizes. Negotiations began in January 2016 to replace the teacher contract expiring in August of that year, and are still underway. “We’ve been negotiating for 14 months, and we’ve met 32 times in negotiations, for over 200 hours, but we have had no success,” said Melanie Allen, a Boston Public Schools parent, teacher and BTU negotiating team member, in a statement. Meanwhile, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association’s negotiations have sailed through relatively briskly and bring significant increases, largely through bumps to non-salary pay and benefits. It will cost the city approximately $68 million over three years. The Walsh administration’s 2018 fiscal year school budget includes about $20 million set
aside for costs associated with collective bargaining. The disparity in the teachers’ versus patrolmen’s negotiations points to what some say is a long-running divide in the groups’ bargaining abilities. BPS has 10,255 employees, approximately 4,517 of whom are teachers, according to fiscal year 2017 data. The Boston Police Department employs 2,713 people, 2,144 of whom are police officers.
Seeking equal recognition
BTU president Richard Stutman noted that while another, predominately male union has settled negotiations, BTU is still fighting for a similar package. He avoided identifying the specific union. “We’re seeking something comparable to what has already been offered to at least one union in the city,” Stutman told the Banner. “We’ve been offered a lot less than they’ve already settled for.” He said does not contest the value of the other union’s work, but rather wants recognition that “our jobs are equally hard.” According to Stutman, the lagging negotiations and lower offerings are a statement that city has low esteem for women, who comprise 76 percent of the teaching workforce. If paraprofessionals are included in the count, women comprise roughly 80 percent of the BTU, he said.
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Suzanne Lee of the Chinese Progressive Association (left) and Roxana Rivera of 32BJ SEIU (right) kicked off a downtown rally during the International Women’s Day last week.
Day Without a Woman focuses on economics Boston women call for better wages, immigrant rights By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Women filled the risers in Downtown Crossing and spilled out into the surrounding plaza during last week’s A Day Without A Woman demonstration. During March 8, many women who were able to took off from work and avoided making purchases in an
effort designed to underscore the economic significance of half the population. Some businesses closed, while others donated portions of the day’s sales to charity. Unlike some other protests’ sweeping messages, Boston’s A Day Without A Woman rally focused on concrete goals for improving women’s economic survival and quality of life. Goals
included ending the gender wage gap, maintaining housing at rents affordable to current city residents and securing access to affordable child care, said Suzanne Lee, president emeritus of the Chinese Progressive Association and one of the event managers. “We wanted this to be mainly
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Activists press bank to deal locally Santander cutting deal with D.C. group By YAWU MILLER
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Under the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, banks are required to extend credit to businesses and residents of low-income communities where bank services historically have been lacking. While those agreements have traditionally been negotiated with community-based organizations and nonprofits, Santander Bank is looking elsewhere to negotiate benefits for communities in Boston, Worcester and Springfield: Washington, D.C. A coalition of Boston activists is
questioning why the bank decided to negotiate a CRA agreement for Massachusetts cities with the Washington-based National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “We cannot accept and will not accept any outside group or organization to negotiate on our behalf,” said Louis Elisa, speaking for Freeze Frame Black Boston, a coalition organized around economic empowerment in Boston. “Our community is more than capable of speaking for itself. The black and Latino communities can and will speak on our own behalf.” The Community Reinvestment
Act requires that banks make loans and make available banking services in historically underserved neighborhoods. It was enacted largely in response to historical trends of banks redlining — denying mortgages and other loans — in black and Latino communities. The law has had far-reaching effects, forcing banks to open branches and place ATM machines in low-income communities where many have long had to rely on check-cashing stores and spurring banks to fund mortgage programs aimed at first-time homebuyers and administered by local nonprofits. Programs like the Jamaica
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City Council to further study Jim Brooks Stabilization Act Bill informs tenants on rights, city on evictions; officials split over needed strength of bill By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
City councilors opted for continued examination of the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act — the outgrowth of anti-displacement activists’ Just Cause Eviction proposal — after concluding a six-hour hearing on the matter last week. Sponsored by Mayor Martin Walsh, the ordinance is intended to be one tool against the displacement of long-term residents as rents rise across the city. Before the bill can be enacted it must be passed by the city council and the state legislature. But councilors were wary of giving an immediate stamp of approval. Some said the ordinance seemed toothless, while others worried about burdens on landlords. Some councilors questioned the scope as well as the necessity of a new law. If passed, the legislation would prevent landlords from evicting tenants without valid and explicitly-stated cause. The nine acceptable reasons for eviction include failure to pay rent, violation of terms of the lease, damage to the property, creating a nuisance, use of the property for illegal purpose and landlord recovery of the property for personal or family use. Under the ordinance, landlords also would have to inform the city’s Office of Housing Stability of their intent to evict a tenant or decline to renew a lease within 48 hours of serving the notice to the tenant. The city would use this opportunity to mail information to the tenants about their rights in this situation. During last week’s hearing, Sheila Dillon, director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, and Lydia Edwards, deputy director for the Office of Housing Stability, said they feared that a significant number of tenants receiving eviction notices believe they are required to leave right away and are unaware of their ability to respond to the notice or the time they have to locate other lodging, should they choose not to contest or respond. “The majority of evictions don’t go through courts,” because the majority of people do not know they have the ability to contests evictions, Edwards said. Such notification from landlords also would give the city missing data to understand the shape and scope of displacement. “[Currently,] we’re looking at 2015 data and at a set of evictions that we weren’t able to impact,” Dillon said. “Our hope is that if we’re hearing things as they’re happening we can get to households and say, ‘These are your rights, call us if you need help.’” The ordinance does not stop a landlord from hiking rents between leases and evicting a tenant unable to afford the new rent. During the hearing, Edwards noted that 80 percent of eviction cases in 2015 were due to nonpayment of rent, according to analysis of housing court data and calls received by officials.
Lines drawn
Councilor Matt O’Malley — who represents Jamaica Plain, the Back of the Hill, West Roxbury
and parts of Roslindale and Roxbury — came out in explicit support, stating that the ordinance provides important protections, a valuable public education element and the data collection needed for accountability, and lets the city work with good landlords. He added that would not have supported a rent control bill. The strongest voice of opposition came from Councilor Bill Linehan — representing downtown, South Boston and the South End — who called the bill unnecessary. “I will not be supporting —and want to say this publically — this petition for a special law or ‘just cause eviction,’” Lineahan stated. “There are ample laws in place. … I would be all for empowering the city’s Office of Housing Stability and to have greater communication and resources, and eventually build the relationship with the housing court so that there is information on time and ready, but this matter to me doesn’t seem worthwhile.”
Data collection and tenants’ rights
Many councilors, including Frank Baker, Andrea Campbell, Josh Zakim and Michelle Wu, praised the tenant notification aspect and data collection. “I agree in theory with this in that there are two ways this is helping tenants,” Wu said, praising aspects of the bill for empowering residents by informing them of their rights and extending the city’s ability to work on displacement problems by providing data. Many emphasized that the bill of rights should be explained clearly in layperson’s terms. In response to a question from Councilor Ayanna Pressley, Dillon said currently the city does not have steps to respond to any bad-acting landlords revealed through the data collection but that having the information is the first step.
Even less dramatic rent increases are creating tangible burdens, Councilor Tito Jackson said. “We’re finding $200 [more in rent] pushes someone out of their residency and the city of Boston,” Jackson said. Meanwhile, Councilor O’Malley said he would have opposed any rent control measures, and Baker said rent control would undermine the financial survival of small middle-class landlords by limiting their rental incomes to an extent that made property ownership untenable. “I remember rent control. … It used to be when you bought a property, a lot of times the rents wouldn’t even cover the mortgage,” Baker said. He added that he fears any aspect of this bill that could restrict responsible landlords from relying on their property investment for income, and said that even if the bill exempts landlords who own fewer than seven units, such a measure could be undone in the future. “I’ve had calls from elderly landlords hamstrung by the people they took care of for years,” Baker said. “We’re going to totally strip their rights.” Jackson said the situation in Boston is dire, with homeless children in Boston Public
Schools numbering in the thousands, the middle class experiencing a squeeze out and many long-term residents and critical portions of the workforce being forced to leave. “We need to do something, we need to do it urgently, or we wake up in 10 years and are an absolute different city of Boston,” Jackson said.
The right law?
Some councilors questioned whether the bill was the right method of extending the proposed measures. Councilor Zakim suggested one route could be to provide a special class of protections for tenants who are long-term residents, disabled, elderly, low-income people, people with limited English language proficiency or other conditions that may make eviction or learning of their rights especially burdensome. He also asked if including a bill of rights in the language of lease documents and eviction notices might be another way to achieve the bill’s notification piece. Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George said she was concerned that the eviction provision does not apply to those living in subsidized housing units, the site of most evictions. “If our public subsidized housing is the largest evictor … that’s a huge disconnect from what the mission behind Jim Brooks is supposed to be about,” Essaibi-George said.
Edwards said, however, that Boston Housing Authority uses its own internal system to work with tenants in such situations and that many in subsidized units live in housing owned by nonprofits, who take on the mission of combatting displacement. The Jim Brooks Stabilization Act, meanwhile, Edwards said, fills in the gap by addressing housing owned by private landlords, who may not share such mission and priorities. Councilor Mark Ciommo said the city needs to give special consideration to the needs of senior residents, who may not have sufficient supports or access to specialized senior housing. He also expressed doubt that the Office of Housing Stability has sufficient capacity to handle issuing tenant rights notices, although Dillon assured him that office and the larger Department of Neighborhood Development would be able to manage. “I totally agree with being as aggressive as we can with data collection but I want to know what kind of bureaucracy we need to set up,” Ciommo said. Jackson suggested providing an incentive to benefit landlords who choose to offer their units for less than fair market rent. Dillon said a piece of companion legislation filed at the State House proposes a state tax credit to landlords who offer below-market rent. She emphasized that the Jim Brooks Stabilization Act is one among a larger set of tools.
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The question of rent
One spot of high concern was that the bill falls short of protecting tenants from receiving dramatic rent hikes once their lease expires. Councilor Campbell noted that with no enforcement mechanism, it would be difficult for the city to prevent landlords from multiplying rents between leases and mass evicting a building’s tenants. However, she cautioned that she did not necessarily think there should be penalties to landlords who act this way. Sal LaMattina also highlighted the lack of protection to tenants whose rents are raised once their lease expires, and Zakim commented similarly, noting that the measure fails to tackle a key driver of displacement. “I’m concerned about the illusionary nature of some of the protection, if someone can just say, ‘Your rent was $1,800/last month, I’ll make $4,500 a month,’ and someone is having a hard time paying it and that’s a just cause for eviction,” Zakim said. “ T hat ’s allowed,” Dillon admitted.
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The New Mission High School girls basketball team (top photo) and the Brighton High boys basketball team (bottom photo) are city league champions on Thursday, Feb. 23 at Madison Park. New Mission defeated Fenway 55-50 and Brighton beat TechBoston 76-64. City Councilor Tito Jackson was on hand to celebrate. Both teams and several others in the BPS are competing in the state tournament round as we go to press this week
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Academia’s complicity in the slave trade The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study recently sponsored a well-attended conference entitled “Universities and Slavery: Bound by History,” to discuss the complicity of academia with slavery in America. When considering slavery, one’s first thought is the Civil War and plantation owners growing rich from forced labor. The nation’s exalted institutions were considered to be far removed from such a depraved practice. However, with the growing recognition of the involvement of esteemed universities in slavery, it is becoming more apparent that slavery was more extensive than was generally believed. Ironically, academia has become a major battleground for opposition to affirmative action. New England did not have an agricultural economy that required a large number of slaves, but several Yankee families were prominent in both the slave trade and the development of local universities. John Brown, an 18th century Providence banker, financed slave traders and was also a founder of Brown University. Ruth Simmons, the former president of Brown University and the daughter of a black Texas sharecropper, initiated a program in 2003 to investigate Brown University’s connection to the slave trade. This effort launched a general interest in academia’s involvement with slavery. Numerous published accounts established academia’s complicity. One of the most disturbing stories is that Georgetown University sold its 272 slaves in 1833 to cover the institution’s cash deficit. Harvard also was not innocent. The university countenanced the discredited white supremacy work of biologist Louis Agassiz, and the Harvard Law School accepted
financial contributions from Isaac Royall Jr., a planter in the West Indies who was known to be extremely cruel to rebellious slaves. With such a history of involvement with slavery, it is appropriate for academic institutions to support the affirmative action policies to provide educational opportunities for the descendants of former slaves. But now there is a growing protest from those who view such policies as discrimination against whites. With a renewed awareness of the pervasive slavery in America, it is a good time to review the concept of affirmative action, especially as it applies to academia. The modern policy of affirmative action began in 1961 with President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925 requiring government contractors to assure “… that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.” This was merely a prelude to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Implicit in affirmative action policy then was that the applicant is qualified for the job he or she seeks. Nonetheless, whites protested that their jobs were being unfairly taken by unqualified minorities. There was also a mistaken belief among some blacks that they were entitled to the job because of past racial discrimination, regardless of their qualifications. Some of the most heated affirmative action battles have been over admission to colleges and universities. The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study conference will have been socially successful if professors and college administrators were induced to strengthen their commitment to support a racially diverse nation with college campuses that reflect this ideal.
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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Make no mistake, there’s a calculated method to Ben Carson’s zaniness. There’s absolutely no way he could not know that making an idiotic crack that blacks took what amounted to a busman’s holiday excursion to America and in the process poked around for a few plumb opportunities and then decided to decamp here would not ignite the predictable twitter, Facebook and media firestorm. It did. And that’s been the case each time Carson tosses out an absurd zinger. This was the case when he said there’d have been no Holocaust if the Germans had guns. Or how about that a dead body riddled with bullets is a small price to defend the Second Amendment? Or, that the Great Pyramids of Giza had no other purpose than to store grain? And of course his pièce de résistance, calling Obamacare the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. Now bear in mind that Carson isn’t just prattling off in his shower or at a bull session with some cronies. He’s made these looney quips either on national talk shows or at major political gatherings such as CPAC. He gave his absurdly hilarious take on slavery that blacks wound up here not in chains, but as immigrants seeking “opportunities” at an official meeting of HUD employees. Carson has always had the boundless capacity to crop up when his right-wing GOP handlers need a black to make a dumb quip, dig, slur or insult of women, blacks, Democrats and especially former President Obama. Then when he incites the howls, his handlers circle the wagons and scream that he’s always being bullied by other blacks who simply can’t stomach the thought of a black conservative daring to go against liberal orthodoxy. The media almost always takes the bait and shoves Carson and his critics to the front of the news cycle, which guarantees even more tongues wagging about him. This is more than political theater of the absurd. It gets even more attention for the GOP. But more importantly, it touches a deep, dark and throbbing pulse among legions of ultra-conservatives who still passionately believe that Obama and many Democrats are communists, gays are immoral, and that the health care reform law is exactly what Carson has likened it to: “slavery,” meaning the tyrannical intrusion by big government into their lives. Mainstream GOP leaders can’t utter these inanities. They must always give appearance that they are above the dirt, mud and hate-slinging fray. So, they leave it to a well-paid stalking horse like Carson to do their dirty work for them. But that’s only part of Carson’s worth to conservatives. He gives the illusion that the GOP is a race-neutral party that has a plethora of big name African Americans as their visible point men and women, who speak with authority. The cast of shameless black panderers and hucksters that the GOP has trotted out and plopped in front of the TV cameras during the past few years has been both endless and embarrassing. But they still keep them coming. The GOP understands the fundamental political axiom that self interest rules politics as well, if not better, than the Democrats. Party leaders have long known that many blue-collar white voters, especially male voters, can be easily aroused to vote and shout loudly on the emotional wedge issues: abortion, family values, anti-gay marriage and tax cuts. Carson fits neatly into this script. He’s an African American with name identification who once had some admiration among blacks. But even a discredited Carson among blacks is less important than the fact that he’s a serviceable tool used by ultra-conservatives to play their version of the race card — by depicting him, a black man, as a victim of allegedly closet-racist Democrats who seethe at the notion of a black man who dares have the tenacity to express views that don’t parrot the Democratic Party’s positions. Carson will almost certainly get even more media attention as Trump’s point man at HUD, a government agency that ladles out billions annually in public housing subsidies, rental assistance and housing finance activities, employs more than 8000 workers and administrators and operates more than 100 subsidy programs. And since Carson is on record waving away housing discrimination suits, lambasting the supposed over-dependence on “social safety net” programs, getting government out of competition with private enterprise and denouncing anything that supposedly deadens individual initiative, it’s no stretch to guess that if left to his devices he could be a oneman wrecking crew of everything HUD stands for. Carson will always get snickers, chuckles and lampooning from his legions of black and liberal foes. But that just makes him even more serviceable to Trump and the GOP. That’s the method to Carson’s zaniness.
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I think he’s a complete fool. He’s just making himself look worse every time he opens his mouth.
It’s been very negative. One of the most negative presidents we’ve ever had.
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ELIJAH EVANS The Bikes Not Bombs board of directors is pleased to announce that Elijah Evans has been selected through a joint board and staff process as the organization’s new executive director. Evans started at Bikes Not Bombs at age 14 as an Earn-ABike participant, then going on to become the coordinator and then director of Youth Programs, and most recently serving as the vice chair of the board of directors. Evans returns to lead the organization after becoming a teacher through Teach for America and spending three years in the classroom and managing operations at TFA’s new teacher institute. “It is with great excitement that I step into the executive director role at Bikes Not Bombs,” Evans said. “I am passionate about empowering people socially and economically, and this role presents an opportunity to apply my skills
and experience as a leader in program development, management and community building to an organization that values being courageous and bold in the face of injustice.” Evans studied African American history and Spanish linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, has a certificate in nonprofit management and leadership from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and is a musician, bike mechanic and avid cyclist. He will begin his tenure as executive director on March 27. Bikes Not Bombs uses the bicycle as a vehicle for social change. The organization reclaims thousands of bicycles each year and creates local and global programs that provide skill development, jobs and sustainable transportation. Bikes Not Bombs programs mobilize youth and adults to be leaders in community transformation.
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Report details racially disparate suspension rates in the state Lost instructional time is achievement barrier; charters, alternative schools top suspenders By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
A new report released from the UCLA’s Center for Civil Rights Remedies puts numbers to the racially-disparate application of out of school suspensions in Massachusetts. Among revelations: In the state, black students lost nearly three times as many days of instruction due to suspension for minor misbehaviors as their white counterparts. Report co-author Dan Losen, as well as previous research by CCRR scholar Russel Rumberger, tie high suspension rates to lower graduation rates and academic outcomes, suggesting resolving disparate suspension rates could be a significant way to redress achievement gaps. “Missed instruction time can have a devastating impact on students’ academic achievement, and suspensions are known to be closely related to graduation rates and involvement with juvenile justice,” states the report. “Missing three or more days of school in the fourth grade predicts a reduction in reading achievement by one full grade level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.” Lower academic achievement in turn can mean reduced wages later in life, at times creating a greater demand for public assistance and in some cases greater likelihood of involvement in crime, states the report. Such related expenses, as well as the lower taxes garnered from lower-wage workers, reduces the state’s potential revenue, presenting an economic argument for education discipline reform, the report states. While the report acknowledges that many factors external to school can produce absenteeism, schools should take full control over the factors they do control, including not actively sending students away, the report states.
Racial and ableist disparities
In Massachusetts, blacks students and students with disabilities lost more days of instruction time than white students, and
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more days due to suspension for minor offenses. During school year 2015 to 2016, on average there were 13 days of instruction time lost by white students per 100 white students. Black students and students with disabilities lost even more class time. For every 100 black pupils, there were 34 days of class time lost by black students. Similarly, students with disabilities lost 34 days for every 100 students. The impact of discipline policy is evident, however. On average, for every 100 white students, 8 days were lost by white students due to suspensions for noncriminal, nonviolent, nondrug offenses. Meanwhile, for every 100 students with disabilities 19 days were lost for minor offenses, and for every 100 black students, 21 days were lost.
Concentrated suspensions
Statewide, schools varied widely in their discipline policies. While at nearly 69 percent of schools in Massachusetts had fewer than 10 days of instruction lost per 100 students during school year 20152016, at 0.6 percent of schools (11 schools) per every 100 students there were 200 to 515 days missed, according to the report. At 1.5 percent of schools (27 schools), for every 100 students there were 100 to 199 days lost, and at 19.4 percent, or 360 schools, for every 100 students there were 17 to 99 days lost.
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The highest suspension rates were found at charter schools and alternative schools, Losen said. Alternative schools are those designed to serve needs not met in traditional school environments, including behavior problems. “Some people think, ‘Oh, well of course those schools would suspend more students,’” Losen
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Students entering City on a Hill at Circuit Street campus. The school has one of the highest suspension rates in Boston. said in a Banner phone interview. “But you have to realize that these are schools set up, at least in theory, to address the kids with behavioral issues. They should have the personnel and adequate staff to help those kids stay in school more and shouldn’t have, in some cases, incredibly high suspension rates. It’s not a good use of our tax dollars if their primary response for minor misbehaviors is to kick the kids out of school. We don’t want any kids unsupervised, on the streets, especially because of minor misbehaviors.” Along with alternative schools five charter schools stood out for the highest suspension rates, including three in Boston: UP Academy Boston, City on a Hill in Dudley and City on a Hill at Circuit Street. The school with the highest racial disparity in suspensions
statewide was Dorchester’s UP Academy Boston charter school. During the 2015 to 2016 school year, for black pupils, there were 194 missed days of instruction per 100 students; meanwhile, among white students, there were only 41 days of missed instruction per 100 students, representing a 154-day gap. Also listed with notable racial suspension disparities were Bostons’ Lila G. Frederick Middle School, with a difference of 75 more days lost by black students per 100 black students than lost by white students per 100 white students; Lyon Upper 9-12 (75 days more), Madison Park High (74 days more), the Dever (71 days more) and UP Academy Holland (64 days more). Only schools with populations of at least 100 students, including at least 10 white students and at least 10 black students, were considered
for the racial gap analysis. The report said that across the state, one strong driver of high suspension rates appeared to be principal perspectives on discipline. Schools with principals who responded on a statewide survey said that they regard strict discipline as a necessary punishment response and blame parents and children for problematic behavior had high suspension rates compared to those whose principals who regarded discipline not as retribution, but rather as a method for teaching student what is appropriate behavior.
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To ensure the report’s information is acted on, Losen calls for the state Department of Education to require schools to include on their accountability reports the number of days of instruction students missed due to discipline.
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Trump admin. draft budget calls for $6 billion HUD cut Cuts are seen as part of long-term plan to de-fund public housing, benefits programs By YAWU MILLER
When President Donald Trump appointed neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate Ben Carson to head the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, many questioned his commitment to the public housing and community development programs funded by the agency. The selection of Carson, who has spoken out against public benefits programs, was seen by many as a lack of commitment to HUD. Last week, the Trump administration’s draft HUD budget leaked to the press showed a $6 billion cut to its $48 billion budget. That cut would force the agency to stop funding maintenance and repairs. It would also curtail it from maintaining its voucher program in the face of rising housing costs, according to Boston Housing Authority Administrator Bill McGonagle. “We have 41,000 families on our waiting list,” he said. “We can only accept 600 families a year due to turnover. And that’s at current funding levels.” McGonagle, who said the proposal coming from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget would be a disaster in terms of the BHA’s ability to maintain its units. “We could not even remotely meet our core mission of decent, safe and sanitary housing,” he said. Cuts to HUD would not be limited to the BHA budget. Other city departments rely on HUD funding for programs including homelessness prevention, first-time homebuyer assistance, small business assistance and brownfields environmental clean ups. Much of HUD’s funding comes in the form of community development block grants, which allow cities and towns more discretion in how it’s used.
“It’s a very flexible source of funding,” said Department of Neighborhood Development Director Sheila Dillon. Over the years, Republicans have been steadily chipping away at the HUD budget, cutting $1 billion from the agency’s capital improvement budget between 2000 and 2016. Those cuts have hit cities like Boston hard and forced some to tear down public housing developments they are unable to adequately maintain. The Boston Housing Authority has turned to nonprofit and for-profit real estate developers to take over administration of its properties and perform various maintenance projects. “We’re trying to do some rather creative, outside-the-box things for our elder federal housing developments,” McGonagle said.
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The latest budget, hatched by arch-conservative OMB Director Mick Mulvaney, is seen by many as the logical extension of the anti-government doctrine articulated by the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank. “This is consistent with what the Heritage Foundation is calling for in its ten-year plan to eliminate HUD,” said Michael Kane, executive director of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants. Coupled with the administration’s planned $57 billion hike in military spending and cuts to anti-poverty programs — also in line with Heritage Foundation recommendations — Mulvaney’s recommendations constitute a threat to working class people, Kane said. “It’s a death budget,” he commented. “Increasing military spending, destroying programs that keep people healthy, defunding Medicaid — people will die from these budget cuts.” In Boston, as in many major
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A Trump administration budget proposal leaked to news media would cut $6 billion from the $48 billion HUD budget, affecting public housing including the Cathedral public housing development in the South End. urban areas in the United States, housing costs are outpacing rental subsidies, forcing low-income workers to pay a greater share of their income on rent. The gradual erosion of the HUD budget, which began during the 1990s, has exacerbated the pressure on public housing waitlists, according to McGonagle. “Seventy-five percent of the folks who are income-eligible for Section 8 housing are on waiting lists,” he said. “If anything, the federal government should be investing more.” McGonagle says the cuts to the HUD budget, if enacted, would force his agency to zero out its
capital budget, which pays for repairs, in addition to cutting deeply into funds for the day-today operation of public housing developments. “It thoroughly cuts the operating budget that was already weakened during sequestration,” he said, referring to federal budget cuts in 2013 and 2014. In a message to HUD staff, Carson said the budget advanced by Mulvaney is preliminary, and pledged to work to maintain adequate HUD funding. McGonagle noted that Carson made a similar pledge during his confirmation hearings.
“This is an opportunity for Carson to stand up and do what he said he’d do to defend public housing,” he said. “I’m hopeful, if not optimistic, that he will do that.” Dillon said she and city officials from across the country are working to pressure the Trump administration to maintain HUD funding. “It’s a new administration,” she said. “Boston and other cities are working together to let the new administration know the importance of community development block grants and what they’re used for. We’re trying to educate the new administration.”
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Plain-based Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America and the Dorchester-based Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance have helped hundreds of working-class Boston-area residents purchase their first homes. When Santander bought part of Sovereign Bank’s Massachusetts portfolio, the Madrid-based bank agreed to maintain existing CRA agreements that community activists had hammered out with Sovereign. But in recent years, the activists say, bank officials have backed away from those agreements and fired staff responsible for maintaining CRA obligations. The Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, which regulates bank, gave the bank a “needs to improve” rating during a recent review. “What it says to us is that we’re dealing with people who are rooted in the thought that they can do what they want,” said former City Councilor Chuck Turner. “As a community, we need to collectively negotiate with them.” A spokeswoman for the bank said the downgraded CRA rating was not related its current CRA performance, citing $875 million in mortgage lending to low- and moderate-income people in Massachusetts and communities and $231 million in small business lending in lowmoderate-income communities. “Santander has never been more committed to meeting the needs of the communities we serve,” said spokeswoman Ann Davis in an
email statement. “Our CRA rating downgrade is specific to the 2011 to 2013 time period and is the result of three regulatory actions not related to our CRA performance. In fact, our CRA performance evaluation states that Santander received a rating of Satisfactory for CRA performance, with a High Satisfactory in lending. Our downgrade for 2011-2013 in no way reflects our current commitment to our customers and communities, including our substantial increase in community development investments in recent years.” But activists at last week’s press conference were more focused on
Santander’s dealing with an outside group to negotiate local community benefits, many calling it racist. Turner called for an “immediate, systematic withdrawal of funds” from the bank. “There should not be any one person or organization in this community with money in Santander,” he said. “As we continue to see huge and ever-increasing gaps in wealth as highlighted in the Federal Reserve Bank’s report ‘The Color of Wealth in Boston’ and other reports that show barriers to capital, impediments to employment and job training, and discriminatory practices
in contracting,” said Segun Idowu, speaking on behalf of the NAACP Boston Branch, “we must demand more of our banks to meet their statutory obligations to lend fairly and equitably. Black and brown families depend on it and have earned it.” Former City Councilor Charles Yancey noted that the city could leverage its deposits of more than $3 billion a year to prompt Santander to negotiate CRA obligations with community-based organizations. “It’s a tremendous amount of power that could be used to force compliance with the Community Reinvestment Act,” he said.
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Inside a tiny storefront on Jamaica Plain’s South Street, the light-filled interior of Faith’s Naturals feels surprisingly spacious. White walls, a high white tin-paneled ceiling and light-toned wood shelves, coupled with a few deeppink accents, create an inviting look to the narrow space. Neatly arranged on the shelves are jars and bottles of face and body scrubs, oils, soaps and hair care products, all handmade by owner Faithlyn Scarlett with plantbased ingredients such as flaxseed extract, arrow root powder, aloe vera gel extract, coconut oil, honey, lemon juice and crushed oats. “These products are geared toward your overall wellness,” says Scarlett, a Dorchester resident who came from Jamaica to Boston at age 10. “It’s not just pretty, it helps solve an issue. Eczema, alopecia, hair that’s thinning, I have products to help with that.” Her customers come from every culture and every age group, she says, male and female and from all age groups. “More people are into taking care of their bodies. [But] even if you’re eating healthy, the chemicals in your beauty products go in your skin. It’s always better to go natural and organic, and that’s what we provide,” she says.
Located on South Street in Jamaica Plain, Faith’s Naturals benefits from foot traffic in the vibrant commercial district. On a recent Sunday afternoon, Herby Toussaint of Dorchester, a repeat customer, drops by with his 27-year-old daughter Roshni. While Scarlett helps Roshni find the right skin care product, Toussaint says he’s been buying Faith’s Naturals for his own skin since he heard about the store on local radio station 101.3 FM, where Scarlett advertises and has appeared on Tayla Andre’s “Wake Up With Tayla” call-in show. The father and daughter leave with a bundle of soaps and some tea – “the basics,” Toussaint says. Scarlett’s affinity for devising effective products was born of necessity. Besides having a lifetime of hair issues, the 36-year-old says, childhood chicken pox left her skin scarred. As a young adult, she
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More recently, she witnessed the youngest of her four children, now 4, struggling with eczema. One day, after a particularly severe flare-up had rendered Scarlett herself crying in desperation in the pediatrician’s office, she sprang into action. Upon arriving home, she tried a new body butter mixture and applied it to her son’s skin. It soothed his itching that night and in a short time, she noticed his skin condition improved. “I remember hearing this voice telling me, ‘You should sell it,’” she says, “but I answered back ‘How can I do that? I don’t
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continued from page 10 something called Faith’s Naturals. Soon, she was selling her products to her co-workers and at events that had vendor spaces. She also hit the pavement, visiting local stores to see if they would carry her products. She was able to rent a little shelf space in two local stores, but the space within other people’s stores wasn’t sufficient to display all the items people wanted. Last August she took two weeks off from her job to see what would happen if she had more time to devote to Faith’s Naturals. “I was going to do it from home. There was no idea of a shop in my mind,” she says. After two energizing weeks, she returned to work, and two days later decided she was ready to quit the job and make a go of her own business. A realtor friend persuaded her to look around at some possible store locations. The space at 66A South Street, nestled in a stretch of small businesses from bike shop to bakery, stole Scarlett’s heart. “It looked so small from the outside,” she recalls, “but when I came in it felt so good. It felt like home.”
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Her last day at her job was also the day she signed a lease for the shop. A former art gallery, the space had a lot of features ready to go, including the white walls and ceiling. Scarlett’s husband
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installed the shelves. She made curtains. She bought a cash register and a computer and stocked the shelves. The Faith’s Naturals store opened for business Oct. 15. It feels great to be her own boss and she enjoys making customers happy with her products, she says, though would-be entrepreneurs should take note that opening a business has meant trading 40 hours for 80. She is in the store every hour it’s open, six days a week, and when she’s not there, she’s making and bottling more inventory. She creates the products in her Dorchester home, often working into late-night hours. “It’s my passion,” she says. “Once I get started, it’s hard to stop.” Scarlett has taken a do-it-yourself approach to other facets of her business, too. She has not taken out any business loans, relying on product sales to pay the rent. The labels on her bottles and jars are her own design, printed from her computer, sometimes with the help of one of her children. She also sells Faith’s Naturals wares
through an online store that she designed and built herself. “When I have to do something, I find a way,” she says. “I just figure it out.”
Planning for the future
Just months into owning a brick-and-mortar store, it may be hard to keep an eye on the future, but Scarlett is thinking ahead to hiring a part-time sales assistant. Other plans include offering in-shop facials at some point, which would require hiring an esthetician, and starting a catalog sales operation that could help other people get involved as sales representatives. Scarlett is feeling fine about her hair these days, and has even authored a children’s book called “My Locs and Me” about a girl happy with her black and shining locked hair, a style the author herself now sports. When in doubt, she says, she keeps her grandmother’s words in mind. “She always told me, ‘Do your best, and go with your passion.’”
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Demonstrators filled the riser and plaza in Downtown Crossing where they called for respect for women, equal pay for equal work and better working conditions for some workers, and protection from harassment as well as control over their own bodies and access to affordable birth control, among other demands.
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for working women — you see a crowd that’s very different from the Women’s March,” Lee told the Banner. “A lot of time working women feel like their issues don’t get addressed.” The rally featured a racially and nationally diverse list of speakers, including union and immigrant rights group members, as well as an elected official, with City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George taking the mic following a speech from Logan airport wheelchair attendant Davail Gethers. The broad array of backgrounds was part of the rally’s success, said 32BJ SEIU
vice president Roxana Rivera, who helped run the event. “What was most important today was that you saw so many people from different sectors coming together. Childcare workers, teachers, elected officials, coming together to speak up for the rights of women and bettering our communities,” Rivera said.
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Many demonstrators turned out in red jackets or pink hats to symbolize solidarity. Boston’s event was one of many taking place nationwide on International Women’s Day. The national organizing group said the day’s mission was to highlight, among other causes, the economic significance
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of women as well as the discrimination many women and female-identifying individuals face. They sought to draw attention to issue areas such as the persistent gender wage gap — which is even wider for black and Latina women — as well as sexual and gender-based harassment and the need for universal provision of certain workplace protections, such as access to sick care and affordable child care. Other calls included access to medically-accurate sex education and the need for making certain health care services such as birth control and abortion universally accessible and affordable.
Workers’ needs
In the downtown Boston rally, immigrant rights and economic equality took top focus, with many demanding greater respect and better pay for jobs frequently held by immigrant women. “Domestic work often goes unrecognized,” said Claudia, of the Matahari Women Workers’ Center, who asked that her last name not be used. “We do the work that makes other work possible.” Caretakers often may spend twelve hours a day looking after others’ loved ones and homes, said Claudia, who works as a nanny and Colombian immigrant. Rose Pierre, a nursing home worker and 1199SEIU member originally from Haiti, said she works two jobs to make ends meet and support her children. Jianhua Tang was a teacher in China before emigrating for the U.S., where she found employment in an electronics factory and as a homecare worker. She called attention to the gap between average earnings in Chinatown and the rents, as well as the gender wage gap that limits further women’s ability to fight displacement. One driver of income inequality in her community is that women are predominately employed in caretaker positions, where wages tend to be low, she said. “As caretakers, they’re very important to our society,” Jianhua Tang said, “but their wages are often the lowest.” Several protestors also noted that protecting the rights of immigrants is integral to bringing greater economic stability to domestic workers and caretakers, given the high representation of immigrant women in the roles.
Racial wage gaps
The gender wage gap has been well documented. Last year, the
Protestors of all ages turned out to the local Day Without a Woman rally.
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We wanted this to be mainly for working women — you see a crowd that’s very different from the Women’s March. A lot of time working women feel like their issues don’t get addressed.” — Suzanne Lee, president emeritus, Chinese Progressive Association
Boston Women’s Workforce Council released a report stating that even though Boston’s population is majority female, local women earn roughly 77 cents on the dollar compared to men. Racial disparities amplify this. In Massachusetts, black women earn 61 cents for every dollar a man earns, and Latina women earn 50 cents on the dollar, according to information presented in 2015 by the state Black and Latino Legislative Caucus and the state Caucus of Women Legislators Speakers at the 2015 event attributed the wage gap in part due to unconscious bias in hiring and promotion, as well as various factors that can push people into traditionally lower-wage jobs. These
include barriers to attending higher education, such as tuition costs and time demands.
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W h i l e m a ny i s s u e s a r e long-running, the election of Donald Trump has heightened alarm. Speaking before the event, demonstrator Herbert Jean-Baptiste, an 1199SEIU worker, said the presidential election campaign season revealed pervasive misogyny. One example: “Hillary Clinton got attacked for her looks,” he said. “Women have lost ground” with the election of a misogynist president, said Natalicia Tracy, executive director of Brazilian Worker Center.
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ast Thursday students from Berklee College of Music performed a concert in celebration of traditional black music. Drawn mostly from the last half century, the program highlighted artists like Morris Hayes, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder, who paved the way for new genres and sounds. “This concert attempts to draw from the rich black popular music traditions ... like Motown, Philly soul and the Isley Brothers, as well as the song and style movements from the past,” says professor Bill Banfield, director of Africana Studies at Berklee. Morris Hayes, the former music director for Prince, was a guest artist for the event. In 2013 Hayes was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. A musician in his own right, he was inspired by the church music he heard as a child and has evolved his sound into its current smooth, contemporary discography.
wide influence
For trumpet player and Berklee fifth-year, Christian Conti, the concert represents a significant impact on musical history. “I think it’s important to remember that black music has had a big influence on the American music scene,” Conti says. The music of those earlier eras of protest and social upheaval has special contemporary appeal to young listeners. “These people were dealing with social issues and challenges that are still relevant today. And I think that breeds an earnestness and honestness in their music,” he notes. The Africana Studies department spans the spectrum, from traditional West African music and pop to reggae, rag time and gospel. In addition to an array of courses and guest artists like Regina Carter, George Duke and
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Above, Patrice Rushen performs at the Berklee concert in celebrating traditional black music. Below, Morris Hayes, former music director for Prince, was a guest artist. Bottom, Stokley Williams performs.
Life disrupts the best of plans. Take Brodie, the 40-ish linguistics professor who is the central character in Madeleine George’s play “Precious Little,” on stage through March 26 at Central Square Theater in Cambridge. She has become pregnant with the carefully chosen sperm of a “vigorous-sounding” engineering student. But recognizing the risks of pregnancy at her age, she undergoes genetic testing, planning to go forward or not based on the outcome. Yet when she learns that her unborn child may be developmentally disabled, she finds that her life is taking a more challenging turn. Madeleine George’s beautifully written play combines droll humor and drama as it follows Brodie into new, uncharted terrain of the heart. Running 80 minutes with no intermission, the play unfolds with the economy of a poem. Directed by Melia Bensussen, the Nora Theatre Company production is true to the unadorned poetry and wisdom of the play. Faithful to the playwright’s notes, its spare staging uses few props and three actors perform all the parts, an assortment of female characters that Brodie interacts with at a medical clinic, in her office and at a zoo.
Intimate setting
Judy Gailen’s sets capitalize on the theater’s intimate scale. The audience sits on three sides of the performance space. On one end, a partition serves as an examination room curtain, a display screen for delicate ultrasound images and a partition separating zoo animals from human observers. Nearby, a recliner doubles as a log. On the opposite end of the space is a table with two chairs. A notebook and pen are on the table. The floor is curiously marked with units of measure as well as hallucinatory lines that echo sonogram imaging, as if to suggest the mingling of data and dreams. Lighting by WenLing Liao highlights the actors’ expressive faces and shifts of scene and atmosphere. Nathan Leigh’s evocative palette of sounds includes the bleats of jungle animals, a pulsing heartbeat and wafts of
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“Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” on display at Northeastern’s 360 Gallery through April 17, provides a heart-wrenching look at present-day gender politics. The 44-poster exhibit, curated by Elizabeth Resnick, professor emerita of graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, features work from domestic and international artists on the themes of equality and humanity. The “UN Women” series, developed as a creative idea by ad agency Memac Ogilvy Dubai, features close-up images of models representing women from around the world, their mouths covered by a search bar containing the phrase “women shouldn’t,” with dropdown autocomplete options. The phrases, taken from real Google searches conducted in Dubai in 2013, reveal how misogyny in one society makes it online, globally. Among the most-displayed search terms in “UN Women – Women Shouldn’t”: women shouldn’t have rights; women shouldn’t vote; women shouldn’t work; and women shouldn’t box. WBA heavyweight champion Alejandra Jiménez begs to differ. The ad is multilayered. The word searches reveal a startling prejudice, but the design reinforces how women are repressed. The placement of the search box over the women’s mouths evokes the roar of bigotry drowning out their daily battle against it. Beneath each image, the text is corrected.
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continued from page 13 Lenny White, the program boasts The Pat Patrick Archive. Donated in 2010 by then-Governor Deval Patrick, the archive honors and celebrates the music of black heritage through the gift of his father’s holdings. A saxophonist who performed with Nat King
In “Women Shouldn’t” it becomes “Women shouldn’t suffer from discrimination anymore.” “In collecting these materials, my thrust was to touch upon the most important (in my opinion) aspects of this discrimination and violence that many women face on a daily basis,” said Resnick in an interview for Print Magazine. Those aspects are varied, covering rape and genital mutilation in tandem with catcalling and the wage gap, just in time for Women’s History Month. The exhibit is a commentary on the advertising industry, which historically has objectified women and presented sexist content to sell products. These posters appropriate this oppressive medium for the purpose of empowering and informing. The Taproot agency’s “Abused Indian Goddess” series depicts different Hindu goddesses scarred
with cuts and bruises.The poster text states that more than 68 percent of women in India are victims of domestic violence, and lists a hotline number to call for help. The underlying message is that anyone can be a victim, even the revered goddesses. Most striking of these is Durga, worshipped for her strength and invincibility. She stares directly at the camera, a mascara stained tear running down her cheek. Two cuts stain her face with harsh purple bruising, a startling contrast to the green and gold jewels laid on her. “Women’s Rights” is about empowerment. More than that, it’s also about exposing the cruelties women suffer regularly. Looking up at a graphic billboard about sexual abuse, many people would shudder — but many women would look up and see themselves and their struggles finally projected on the world stage.
Cole, Marvin Gaye and Duke Ellington, among others, Pat Patrick left musical scores, news clippings, correspondence and more than 2,000 photographs to the archive.
exclusively features the jazzy beats of Ella Fitzgerald, and on April 20, “Divas Latinas” pays tribute to influential Hispanic pop singers. “Given the tremendous loss of major black artists like Prince and many others who defined one of the world’s great arts treasures, we want to examine, share, celebrate and create in the spirit of black music traditions,” says Banfield.
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The concert is just one in a series of performances targeting cultural inclusivity. On March 15, “Singin’ and Swingin’”
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gentle instrumental music. Costume designer Elizabeth Rocha outfits young characters in muted everyday wear and matches the mature females with attire that suits their roles — from a plain housedress to a Chanel jacket.
Talented cast
The cast presents a rich cross-section of generations, with the incandescent Nancy E. Carroll and astonishing Karoline Xu playing multiple parts, and Lee Mikeska Gardner, artistic director of the Nora Theatre Company, in a self-effacing performance as Brodie. Xu, a Harvard senior, is a joy to watch as, with her formidable gifts, she dissolves into her roles. Using her face, body and voice she morphs into a multitude of characters with great precision and split-second timing. Even more of a minimalist is Carroll, who, with her seasoned prowess, conjures three very different characters, using her voice and eyes to convey magnificent empathy, wisdom and vulnerability as well as the aloof serenity of a gorilla. Complementing these two virtuosos, Gardner is low-key but convincing as Brodie. When called for, she gives her complicated character a light comic touch and later, a softer presence. The playwright pokes fun at characters who talk a lot but communicate little, and at
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Lee Mikeska Gardner (left) and Nancy E. Carroll in “Precious Little.” times that includes Brodie. In the opening scene, a gorilla (Carroll) languorously stretches out as she chews celery and describes the sensations of the moment — the light and smells and the crunch of her food. A gorilla with the vocabulary of a human toddler, she is the presiding attraction of the zoo. Then, the scene shifts to Xu, standing in a pool of light, as she channels the human visitors with a rapid-fire battery of voices conjuring an array of kids and parents. Next, Brodie is meeting with her genetic counselor, a pert, self-important millennial (Xu) who alternates between jargon and oversimplified explanations. An understudy in overdrive, she exclaims “Great!” in response to Brodie’s every statement, while ignoring her patient’s anxiety. Her mentor (Carroll) looks
on in silence. The scene moves to Brodie’s office, as she interviews a fragile woman (Carroll) who is the last surviving speaker of a vaguely Baltic language. Her fraught daughter and caretaker (Xu), hunched and tense, has brought her there to earn much-needed money as a research subject. Speaking at length about her linguistic research, Brodie unleashes her own brand of jargon on her bewildered visitors.
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Back at the clinic, Brodie learns from the genetic counselor that her fetus shows signs of possibly severe developmental delay. Seeking more data to guide her decision, she returns for a fetal ultrasound. The kind technician (Xu) draws Brodie into the wonder
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that her research is affecting her subject, who is rediscovering her native language and with it, memories of ethnic cleansing in her homeland. Brodie visits the zoo, drawn to the gorilla, and senses a bond as she imitates the animal’s hand gestures and facial expressions. During one of their silent dialogues, Xu, standing on the opposite end of the floor, lets loose a stream of raucous voices talking at each other. Rising in volume over this high-speed chatter is the sound of a heartbeat. As she begins to heed new demands of her heart, Brodie moves beyond words.
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ay, hypothetically, you find yourself hosting some Syrian or Mexican folk. No big deal, just a typical, impromptu mid-winter brunch in some sunny American kitchen. But suppose the pantry is running on empty, and all you have to cook are eggs, and some kind of tomato sauce. Now the gang must decide, should we have our tomatoes and eggs Mexican, Syrian or American-style? Egg cooked with tomato sauce, or served with tomato sauce, is universal. The Portuguese version is called baked eggs on tomato sauce. Southern Italians call it Uova al Purgatorio, literally “Purgatory eggs,” and consists of eggs poached in marinara. If the guests are especially hungry, the host won’t have time for complicated “ethnic” dishes. Scrambled eggs with ketchup will have to do, and some home fries with which to mop it up if one can find a potato. Make sure there is plenty of hot grease in the pan — I like half-and-half extra virgin olive oil and butter. Don’t overstir; don’t overcook. The Mexicans, of course, have their huevos rancheros, which consist of fried eggs upon tortilla, with salsa. This dish is only a little more complicated to make than scrambled eggs with ketchup. Especially if you employ my gringo-tastic rancheros technique: First, fry an egg, preferably with a runny yolk and crispy bottom. Remove the egg from the pan, and set aside on a plate. In a mixture of butter and olive oil, fry some minced garlic and onion. As soon as that becomes fragrant, throw in a few hands full of corn chips, and stir them around in the hot grease. Dump in some salsa, and stir it around some more. (You can use flat corn tortillas if you want to be more authentic. But don’t stir those. Lay them flat).
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Try the standard eggs and tomato sauce Syrian style.
SHAKSHUKA A LA ABE RISHO n ½ cup extra virgin olive oil n ½ onion, julienned n 2 clove garlic, sliced thin n 1 T Aleppo pepper n 1 T tomato paste n ¼ cup white wine n 3 cups whole peeled (San Marzano) tomatoes, crushed in hand n 2 red bell peppers; roasted, peeled, seeded, julienned n 2 t salt n 2 T paprika, smoked (I have also used baharat, a turkish pepper blend)
and spices, and simmer until thick and aromatic. 4. By this time the oil should be starting to separate 1. Make an oven sauce, ideally in a shallow cast-iron on top of the sauce. Make skillet, by heating the pan in 6 wells in the sauce with the back of a spoon or ladle. a hot oven 475 degrees F. Add the oil, onion, garlic and Drop an egg into each well Aleppo pepper and cook until and return to the oven. Cook until egg white is cooked but starting to caramelize. the yolk is still runny (sunny 2. Add tomato paste and side up). try to emulsify; cook until 5. Remove from oven, starting to brown. sprinkle on a good feta or 3. Add wine and cook to reduce to a thick sauce. Add farm cheese if using and top with torn parsley. crushed tomatoes, peppers n 6 eggs n Flat leaf parsley
When the salsa has heated up and is simmering, replace the egg(s) atop the chips, sprinkle the entire business with cheese, and put a lid on the pan, so the steam from the simmering salsa melts the cheese. Don’t overcook the egg, though. The corn chips will soak up the salsa, cheese, runny yolk and whatever else you added; it’s a total pan-scraper of a dish. But if you do an internet search for, say, “eggs tomato sauce,” about half the returns will be for shakshuka, a North African and Middle Eastern version of the tomato-egg
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combo that is popular from Morocco to Israel, Egypt to Iraq. My friend Chef Abe Risho comes from a long line of distinguished Syrian cooks, and he served shakshuka for years to an adoring audience at Silk Road, his former restaurant. Risho was kind enough to give me the shakshuka recipe that rocked my town.
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A few days after A Day Without a Woman, Boston teachers staged school-site protests, with members alleging that misogyny is behind city officials offering less favorable conditions to the female-dominated teachers’ union than officials did to a male-dominated union. police department, Tyler said. Arbitration also traditionally has produced highly favorable contracts for the BPPA in the past. The police secured their latest contract through arbitration in 2013, under which they received a 25.4 percent pay hike. “This contract was overly generous,” stated the Boston Municipal Research Bureau in an online post. The Research Bureau post noted that BPPA’s contract terms had ripple effects — they established a precedent that other police unions, such as the Superior Officers and Superior Detectives, could refer to in their own bargaining the following year. With the police securing pay increases of about 25 percent, detectives bargained through arbitration for 28 percent, Tyler said. Civilian unions, unequipped with that right, managed 12.6 percent increases, on average. Although in
step raises and the city’s responsibility to fund the Quinn Bill, a benefit that increases salaries for officers holding higher degrees. Currently the city provides 75 percent of funding for the Quinn Bill, while only a few years ago it split costs 50-50 with the state. Now the city will take on the entire cost. “Fifty-four percent of the cost of the contract has nothing to do with the salary,” Tyler said. During the budget hearing, several city councilors said overtime is an area of concern and asked if hiring more officers would lighten the budget. Tyler said that he did not necessarily advise against approving the BPPA contract, only that the city understand the full financial impacts, including on contracts with other unions and on the availability for funds for different areas of the city budget. He extended the same concern to the pending teachers’ contract. “I think were’ starting to see already that there’s some impact on other city services in not having as much of a budget increase as police salary or schools, in part because employee costs are so high,” Tyler said.
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“We feel the reason for disparate treatment is that we have a predominately female working force and the union that was settled has a predominately male working force. We think our people are undervalued by the city,” Stutman said. “We’ve raised the same issues about disparate treatment because of gender before.” The BTU is among 38 unions which have yet to settle their contracts, according to Sam Tyler, president of the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. During a hearing on the police budget, many city councilors were quick to thank the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association for not resorting to binding arbitration. This tool, which is not available to the teachers’ union or other civilian unions, makes it easier to bring a final resolution to the deal-making and previously has resulted in high-cost BPPA contracts. “Not having a binding arbitration process means that it [the teacher’s contract] just has to be negotiated, however long it takes,” Tyler said in a Banner phone interview. In part, this can be problematic because contracts are one way the city secures reforms it wishes to see, Tyler said. The longer it takes to reach a deal on money and conditions, the longer it takes for any departmental changes to go through. In this year’s bargaining processes, it appears the city is pushing harder for the school department to make operational changes than it did for in the
“[Arbitration] was a major factor in their ability to leverage the higher wages.” Turner recalled in a Banner phone interview. “The police and fire people had much more impact. They are able to leverage the higher rates of pay in a way that the other unions aren’t able to. ... There’s a logic to funding police and fire well, but I felt they sometimes got more than their fair share.” During Turner’s decade on the City Council, the state reduced its funding to municipalities from 30 percent to about 18 percent, Turner said. The way the city absorbed the new costs largely shielded the police department and hit teachers and administrators. “The impacts were at times very severe on the school teaching and administrative population,” Turner said. “The police department didn’t suffer in the same way from those cuts.” According to the Office of Campaign and Political Finance data, in the last two weeks of December 2016, a time when many donors max out their contributions to politicians, ten donors identifying themselves as police officers donated $1,900 to Mayor Martin Walsh. In that same period, just two people identifying themselves as BPS teachers donated $100 each to Walsh. The BPPA Political Action Committee had $369,709 in its coffers as of the Feb. 28 filing deadline with the state’s Office of Campaign and Political Finance. The BTU had $10,390 in the same filing period.
its last contract the BTU agreed to a similar level, traditionally they have been able to get somewhat more favorable terms than other civilian unions, Tyler said. “I think [BTU]’s been successful [in negotiating in past]. Generally, teachers fare a little better than other civilian unions, but not better than public safety unions,” Tyler said. The Boston Globe notes that while teachers can earn stipends from working summer sessions and extended schools days or from earning advanced degrees, police have greater income-boosting options such as working overtime and paid details. Former City Councilor Chuck Turner, who served on the council from 2000 to 2010, said that in his experience, police and fire were able to secure higher pay than other unions, with arbitration abilities acting as a powerful tool.
BPPA contract, 2017
This year, the BPPA secured a 2 percent annual pay raise over three years, as well as provisions increasing pay for hazardous duty,
BTU contract, 2017?
Stutman said that along with seeking what the BTU regards as sufficient pay raises, the union also wants assurances that excessed teachers who have been rated “proficient” or “exemplary” are quickly placed in full-time teaching roles. Another major sticking point is the BTU’s request that inclusionary classrooms cap at 18 students per teacher, rather than the current 20 to 25 student count, and that each class has a paraprofessional, he said.
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the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner. Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Christine Jean
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Serge Jean SUFFOLK Division
To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for irretrievable breakdown.
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Christine Jean, 44 Border St. #314, E. Boston, MA 02128-1010 your answer, if any, on or before 05/11/2017. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 2, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU17P0438EA Estate of Joseph C. Medico Date of Death October 5, 2015
INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Donald J. Medico of Boston, MA a will has been admitted to informal probate. Donald J. Medico of Boston, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond. The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition
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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of John Clifton Canty Also known as John C. Canty Date of Death: 11/20/2016
The Complaint is on file at the Court. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
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To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Kenneth B. Canty of Charleston, SC requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Kenneth B. Canty of Charleston, SC be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 04/17/2017. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you.
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To the Defendant: The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for Irretrievable Breakdown. The Complaint is on file at the Court. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411. You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Barbara Yvonne Satchell, 9 Forbes St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 your answer, if any, on or before 04/20/2017. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court. Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: February 28, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Kervin Melo
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Enid Ramos
To the Defendant:
UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.
The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN.
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: March 06, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Kervin Melo, 943 Hyde Park Ave. #3, Hyde Park, MA 02136 your answer, if any, on or before 05/11/2017. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: February 23, 2017 Terri Klug Cafazzo Register of Probate
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU17D0166DR
The Complaint is on file at the Court. An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
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MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date. Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. B03CN02, REPAIR/REHABILITATION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE MAIN LINE OVER SHAWSHEEN RIVER, BRIDGE NO. W-38-041 (A14) WILMINGTON/BILLERICA, MASSACHUSETTS, (CLASS 1GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION and CLASS 4A- BRIDGES- STEEL SUPERSTRUCTURES, PROJECT VALUE - $1,806,291.00) can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on April 6, 2017. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly. The work consists of the rehabilitation of existing arch bridge, part of which includes the placement of grout and a corrugated steel arch plate underneath the existing arch. The work includes partial demolition of existing abutments and construction of the abutment extensions. The abutment extensions are to be anchored to the existing abutments by drilling and grouting. Bearing seats of the proposed steel arch plate are to be constructed on the abutment extensions. The fascia stones and wingwalls on both faces of bridge shall be repaired, replaced, realigned, reset, secured, and repointed as required. The work also includes demolition of the existing timber retaining wall and construction of the reinforced concrete retaining wall to the Southeast of the bridge. The work also includes installing rip-rap protection as shown on contract drawings. The work also includes restoration of the eroded downstream river bank on adjoining property, and removal of various types of debris in the river and adjacent wetlands. Other work includes installation of a steel pipe by trenchless method and construction of its headwalls. This Contract is subject to a financial assistance Contract between the MBTA and the Federal Transit Administration of U.S. Department of Transportation. FTA Participation 80 percent. Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of two percent (2%). Bidders will affirmatively ensure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this solicitation, minority and female construction contractors will be afforded full opportunity to submit Bids and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin in consideration for an award. Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/ current_solicitations/
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the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.
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The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $3,000,000.00. Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.
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This contract is subject to a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise participation provision requiring that not less than SEVEN AND SEVEN TENTHS PERCENT (7.7%) of the Contract be performed by disadvantaged business enterprise contractors. With respect to this provision, bidders are urged to familiarize themselves thoroughly with the Bidding Documents. Strict compliance with the pertinent procedures will be required for a bidder to be deemed responsive and eligible. This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in Article 84 of the General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246). The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000. A Contractor having fifty (50) or more employees and his subcontractors having fifty (50) or more employees who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will, within one hundred twenty (120) days from the contract commencement, be required to develop a written affirmative action compliance program for each of its establishments. Compliance Reports - Within thirty (30) days of the award of this Contract the Contractor shall file a compliance report (Standard Form [SF 100]) if:
Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT, AIRPORT DIRECTOR’S OFFICE, 2ND FLOOR, TERMINAL BUILDING, 375 AIRPORT DRIVE, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, AT 9:00 AM LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017. The work includes BITUMINOUS CONCRETE PAVEMENT MILLING; HOT MIX BITUMINOUS CONCRETE INLAY; PAVEMENT MARKINGS; RUNWAY/TAXIWAY LIGHTING AND INFRASTRUCTURE; GUIDANCE SIGN MODIFICATION/ REMOVAL; TOPSOIL AND SEED; EROSION CONTROL; AND CHAIN LINK FENCE REPAIR. Bid documents will be made available beginning WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017. Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form. The estimated contract cost is TWO MILLION, FIVE-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,500,000.00). A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid. Bidders must submit a Buy American Certificate with all bids or offers on AIP funded projects. Bids that are not accompanied by a completed Buy American Certificate must be rejected as nonresponsive. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of
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BURLINGTON RENTAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING One 3 Bedroom Apartment - $1,544/mo. Utilities are NOT included THE TREMONT 32 Second Ave., Burlington, MA Public Information Meeting 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Burlington Town Hall Annex 25 Center St—Annex Rm B Application Deadline April 21, 2017
MAX ALLOWABLE INCOME 1 person: 2 person: 3 person: 4 person: 5 person: 6 person:
$51,150 $58,450 $65,750 $73,050 $78,900 $84,750
Reasonable Accommodations Available for persons with disabilities
Language/translation assistance available, at no charge, upon request. For Info and Application Availability: Pick Up: Burlington Town Hall, - Selectmen’s Ofc, Public Library & Leasing Office Phone: (978) 456-8388 Email: lotteryinfo@mcohousingservices.com TTY: 711, when asked 978-456-8388 Applications must be submitted or postmarked on or before the application deadline. Applications can be returned by mail. The Application includes all submission information.
INVITATION TO BID The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking bids for the following:
Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. W243-C1, RECONSTRUCT TAXIWAY B BETWEEN RUNWAY 29 AND TAXIWAY F, WORCESTER REGIONAL AIRPORT, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 2017, immediately after which, in a designated room, the proposal will be opened and read publicly.
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(b) The Contractor is within the definition of “employer” in Paragraph 2c(3) of the instructions included in SF100. The contractor shall require the subcontractor on any first-tier subcontracts, irrespective of the dollar amount, to file SF 100 within thirty (30) days after the award of the subcontracts, if the above two conditions apply. SF 100 will be furnished upon request. SF 100 is normally furnished Contractors annually, based on a mailing list currently maintained by the Joint Reporting Committee. In the event a contractor has not received the form, he may obtain it by writing to the following address:
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On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders
March 10, 2017
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WRA-4354
Purchase of One (1) Chemical Feed Instrument Panel (or Equal)
03/28/17
10:00 a.m.
To access and bid on Event(s) please go to the MWRA Supplier Portal at www.mwra.com. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting services for On-Call Program Management/Construction Management and General Engineering Consultant Services to include, but not limited to, development of strategic program plans; development of program management plans; conceptual and/or preliminary design; preparation of consultant Request for Proposals; schedule and budget preparation and oversight; program controls; third party negotiation and coordination; review of third party submissions; recommendations for alternate project delivery; serving as the Design Professional for Design Build projects; construction cost estimating; bid phase support services; partnering services; resident engineering and inspection services; daily staffing verifications; construction cost control and schedule monitoring; testing and commissioning; project close-out; implementation of a Project Management Information System; and ensuring State and Federal requirements are met. Programs may include, but are not limited to: bridge; tunnel; signals; systemwide accessibility; and vertical transportation, and other assignments as deemed necessary. The amount of $45,000,000.00, with $15,000,000.00 available for each of the three consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project. This contract will utilize Federal and State Funds. The DBE Participation Goal is nine-percent (9.0%). The complete request for qualifications can be found on the MBTA website. Please use the following link: http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/current_ solicitations/
PINE OAKS VILLAGE PHASES 1 AND 2 61 JOHN NELSON WAY, HARWICH, MA 02645 ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR PLACEMENT ON WAIT LIST Pine Oaks Village is sponsored by MidCape Church Homes Inc. Phase 1 is an apartment community designed for elderly (62 and over) persons. Phase 2 is designed for elderly (62 and over) and also for disabled persons who may be under 62. Phase 1 is subsidized by the HUD Section 8 Program. Phase 2 is subsidized by the USDA Rural Development Rental Assistance Program. Most residents pay 30% of their adjusted annual income for rent. Some residents may pay more than 30% based on availability of subsidy and on income. PHASE 1 INCOME LIMITS: 1 Person 2 Persons
VERY LOW $29,750 $34,000
PHASE 2 INCOME LIMITS: 1 Person 2 Persons
VERY LOW $29,750 $34,000
LOW $47,550 $54,350
Pine Oaks Village Phases 1 and 2 are beautifully landscaped communities close to beaches, shops, doctors, churches, police and fire stations and public transportation. All units are ground level.
Interested parties may call (508) 432-9611 or TDD 1-800-545-1833 x 132 or may write to the address listed above. Pine Oaks is a non-smoking community THIS INSTITUTION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER AND EMPLOYER.
This is not a request for proposal. The MBTA reserves the right to cancel this procurement or to reject any or all Statements of Qualifications. Stephanie Pollack Mass DOT Secretary & CEO
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Acton Affordable Housing Two 3 Bedroom SFH Price: $200,200 Adeline Way—Acton, MA 248 High Street Public Information Meeting 6:30, Thursday, April 13, 2017 Acton Town Hall—Room 204 Application Deadline May 10, 2017
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Great Bay - Piscataqua Waterkeeper Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) is seeking a Great Bay - Piscataqua Waterkeeper to advocate and work toward the restoration and protection of the Great Bay estuary, with a focus on water quality. The Waterkeeper will be responsible for building and engaging a strong and coordinated constituent base willing to play an active role in advocating for and implementing needed solutions to protect the Great Bay estuary.
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HIRING NOTICE: This is a “Boston Residents Jobs Policy” Project. All residents are encouraged to apply-must be able to provide acceptable verification of Boston Residency. Applicants must bring a copy of one of the following items as proof of Boston Residency: A current driver’s license OR Massachusetts Identification Card OR Utility Bill less than 6 months old. Keith Construction’s subcontractors are seeking tradesmen for QUINCY TOWER, 5 Oak Street West, in Boston, MA. Must be dependable. Seeking all trades. Local area and low income applicants are encouraged to apply. Please call Bill Plante at 781-630-3803 or email: bplante@keithconstruction.net to set up a time to fill out an application. KEITH CONSTRUCTION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
Communications Director The ACLU of Massachusetts seeks a superb strategist, experienced manager, and creative innovator with the ability to work in a fastpaced environment to lead our communications team in all aspects of messaging about the ACLU’s defense of civil rights and civil liberties. The Communications Director reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for developing the ACLU of Massachusetts’ public narrative across multiple advocacy campaigns and platforms - print, broadcast, and online media. The Communications Director leads an in-house team of two direct reports, as well as managing and coordinating work with our external communications consultants. The Communications Director also works closely with ACLU issue-experts and advocates on staff, as well as the national ACLU staff, to enhance our visibility and advance our mission: to defend and promote core civil rights and civil liberties in Massachusetts and nationwide. Please go to https://aclum.org/about/jobs-fellowships/ for full job description and application instructions. No calls, please. The ACLU of Massachusetts is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of the LBGTQ community to apply.
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