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Right to Remain proponents marched from the Field’s Corner Vietnamese American Community Center to 200 Hancock street, stopping at several sites along the way to protest against evictions and foreclosures.
Neighborhoods protest no-fault eviction policy
Right to Remain calls for ‘Just Cause Eviction’ Law By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Viewpoints clash in the privately-owned, non-subsidized housing market where one person’s home is someone else’s business venture. As new developments and other factors draw more outside interest to the area, landlords may seek to cash in on it by raising rents. But upholding
their rental contract does not protect families from being forced out of their homes by landlords hoping to court renters who can pay more. To address this, the 2015 Right to Remain Boston Assembly convened supporters along with Boston and national cosponsoring organizations at the Vietnamese American Community Center in Dorchester on
Saturday. Residents and activists recounted their experiences with soaring rents in an overheated housing climate, shared visions and called upon Boston to enact a just cause eviction law. After the meeting, several dozen marchers made their way to 200 Hancock Street where they joined a tenant association
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By SANDRA LARSON
The Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary heard testimony this week on a set of bills addressing racial profiling by police. The proposed legislation, introduced by Rep. Byron Rushing and Sens. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Linda Dorcena Forry, aims to prohibit racial profiling during motor vehicle and pedestrian stops, and require increased data collection and review to identify racial disparities in policing practices. The law would apply to all state, municipal, college and university law enforcement officers. “What we’ve seen nationally and locally around demands for police accountability underscores the need for this type of legislation,” said Rahsaan Hall, director of the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties
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The addition of “Gold Standard” Bus Rapid Transit lanes could cut travel time by nearly half between Dudley and Haymarket or Harvard, and by more than onethird between Dudley and Mattapan, according to a report on BRT by the Barr Foundation, a Boston-based private foundation that focuses on education, climate, and
arts and culture. The Barr Foundation convened the Greater Boston BRT Study Group in 2013 to look into how and where new dedicated BRT lanes might improve Boston transportation. The group’s report, “Better Rapid Transit for Greater Boston,” released in June, suggests that BRT — if implemented at its highest standard — could be a cost-effective option to improve access and efficiency in several of
the city’s transit corridors. “Transit is the life blood of the city,” said Jackie Douglas, executive director of LivableStreets Alliance and a member of the BRT Study Group. “This was an opportunity to deep-dive into one option for transportation across the region.” Partnering with the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), the Study Group, made up of community leaders
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Cape Verdean Police Officer Assoc makes strides By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
Gang violence was rife in the Cape Verdean community in the 1990s and 2000s. When the police sent in units to pursue it, they encountered basic problems: no officers spoke Cape Verdean Creole and they did not have the community’s trust. Now with Cape Verdean presence in the forces growing and the Cape Verdean Police Officer Association marking its first year, already change is felt.
The old days
“There was no strong police force to play liaison to the community, especially with gang violence,” said Louis Angeles, a Cape Verdean officer in Dorchester and president of the Cape Verdean Police Officer Association. “There were no Cape Verdeans in gang units or specialized units, and those were the main units going after it in the community.” Angeles came to the BPD through the cadet program. At the time, there were only five to seven Cape Verdeans in the force, he said. Sgt. John Teixeira, the first Cape Verdean-born officer to make sergeant, saw similar problems. He said that crime really started to appear in the community in the ‘90s, and at the time police trying to talk to community members found that many either had difficulty expressing themselves in English or were reluctant to do so with the officers. “I used to be called out to quite a few scenes where people didn’t
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Louis Angeles, president, spoke at a meeting of the Cape Verdean Police Officer Association. speak English,” Teixeira said. “There was a big language barrier.”
Strange land, strange laws, but familiar faces
Today there are seven Cape Verdeans on the gang unit and 43 on the total force. Their presence and work have contributed to major strides in reaching the community. “I see people are less afraid to talk to the police now, especially in the Cape Verdean community,” said Teixeira. New arrivals struggle with
adjusting to a new language and country as well as learning new laws and policies, he said. It is easy to see why they would be unsure who to trust. “It was still a struggle when I first got on, that mistrust,” Teixeira said. “Now things have changed — people who came from Cape Verde, their friends are officers.” Officers attend community meetings, work with local merchants and have much better communication with parents of children
who either are already in crime or at risk of crime involvement, said Angeles. They seek to be ambassadors to the community and serve needs of youths and families. The Cape Verdean officers reach out to and field questions from parents. A common issue Angeles said he encountered was that many newly-arrived parents fear they will get in trouble for disciplining their children. The resulting hands-off approach can be let some kids go astray. Now officers explain policies to parents including “what measures they can take to prevent their kids joining a gang or getting in trouble,” said Angeles.
Officers helping officers
A major force facilitating the officers’ work in the community is the Cape Verdean Police Officer Association. Angeles helped found the association in 2014. His goal was to provide the kind of mentoring and resources he wished were available to him after joining the force fresh out of the cadet program. “I didn’t have mentors,” he said, “I tried to help the community as I went along but didn’t know who to turn to when a family in the Cape Verdean community had an issue.”
Real difference
The association members’ work takes them beyond crime
fighting to a wide range of social needs in the community. Particular emphasis is on voter registration, youth development programs, education for new immigrants and crime awareness. Historically, Cape Verdeans are not active voters, said Angeles: about 30,000 Cape Verdeans are registered to vote in Boston and an equal number are not. This is something he hopes to change. Another key focus of the association is promoting education and keeping youth out of violence. “We give them [the youth] blueprints to going about getting education and doing something positive with their lives,” Angeles said. A current project is finding a location for a community center where officers can talk with and mentor youth. “We want kids in the community to see Cape Verdean officers as role models as opposed to just police who are arresting them,” said Teixera. Teixeira said they make an effort to ensure children stay in the school system. A few years ago, before the CVPOA, officers found that a number of children were skipping school and lying about it to their parents, who often did not speak English and were too busy with multiple jobs to investigate further. Officers informed parents of the situation and urged them to get more involved, such as by attending school meetings. “I think we made a dent,” said Teixeira. In addition to its planned goals, the association members aim to assist with any need that arises. Past events include a grassroots campaign to educate community members on what is involved in the civil service exam, the test required for entering the police force. They also sponsored radio ads and held a community meeting, said Teixeira and Angeles. Angeles says people he has interacted with in the past, whether that was giving assistance or to pushing them to straighten out their act, sometimes cross paths with him again and tell him of the positive effect he had on them. “Making a difference in peoPartners H ple’s lives and encountering them later on the line, and them re- APPRO flecting on how much I helped them. That’s my favorite part [of being on the force]. … My favorite part is to reconnect … and see I helped them.”
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Roxbury development projects generate contentious debate
Roxbury neighbors express opposition to charter, question plan for student housing By YAWU MILLER
Controversial development projects dominated Monday’s meeting of the Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee, the group charged with delivering community input on major development projects on city and state-owned land in Roxbury. The Nuestra Comunidad community development corporation is pushing forward with contentious plans to build a charter school at the site of the former Bartlett Yard MBTA bus facility. Developer Urbanica has persuaded its hotel partner to pay workers $18 an hour in the complex it hopes to build at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Washington Street, but community residents remain skeptical of the project. And Parcel 3 developers are treading on thin ice with a plan to build student housing on their Lower Roxbury site — a move Roxbury residents say could inflame long simmering tensions between neighborhood residents and Northeastern University. “What was your process on getting feedback to determine that this would be on the menu for tonight’s conversation?” asked Roxbury Strategic Master Plan Oversight Committee member Charlotte Nelson. The Parcel 3 developers, who were among the three at the RSMPOC meeting to deliver updates on their projects, emphasized that the idea was in its early stages. “This is something we’re exploring,” said Jeffrey Feldman, vice president for the Greater Boston region of Feldco Development. “We’re taking our cues from the city’s housing policy.” Mayor Martin Walsh has called for the production of more housing units as a way to increase supply and bring down prices, and has asked colleges to build more on-campus housing to remove students from the rental market. But previous attempts by Northeastern and other local colleges to build student housing in Roxbury were met with fierce opposition in
years past. RSMPOC Chairman Norman Stembridge suggested that the developers run their proposal by the project review committee for Parcel 3. “This is something you’ll want to bring to the project review committee sooner rather than later,” he said.
meeting was Urbanica’s proposed hotel on Parcel 10, at the corner of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Washington Street. Urbanica principal Kamran Zahedi said the hotel operator selected for the site has agreed to pay workers $18 an hour, to commit $400,000 in funding for job
training programs and hire 45 people to work in the hotel. In past meetings the project generated controversy as the hotel operator has steadfastly refused to agree to allow union organizing at the hotel. Labor activists, who vociferously opposed the project in previous meetings, were mostly silent Monday. RSMPOC members approved the development project last year, but the Boston Redevelopment Authority has been stalling the project since labor organizers began protesting the hotel operator’s refusal to allow union organizing. “No one can tell me how this project can move along?” questioned RSMPOC member Valeda Britton. This is really troublesome.”
BRA Deputy Director for Community Planning Lara Merida said the project would likely come up for a vote at the BRA’s next meeting, Nov. 10.
Mixed-income in Dudley
Having completed the development of a new Tropical Foods supermarket, Madison Park Development Corporation is moving forward with plans to redevelop the grocer’s former location, a large four-story building on Washington Street. While the first floor will remain a retail space, according to Senior Project Manager Loryn Shefner, the upper floors will house 30 apartments — nine market rate, 5 moderate-income and 16 available to households earning no more than 60 percent of the HUD Area Median Income.
Opposition to charter school
Nuestra Comunidad’s plan to site the Conservatory Lab Charter School in Bartlett Yard, a plan much farther along than the Parcel 3 plan, sparked vigorous opposition at the RSMPOC meeting. Mike Miles, who sits on the Bartlett Yard Project Review Committee, noted that they have opposed the plan since he and other members found out about it in the newspaper. “We have been opposed to the school,” he said. “We’ve been concerned that this is a significant change to what was in the request for proposals and that this hasn’t been brought to the project review committee as a formal proposal.” Nuestra Comunidad Executive Director David Price circulated the results of three focus groups and a community meeting, showing 19 in favor of the Conservatory Lab, 11 against and two undecided. But Roxbury resident Rodney Singleton said community opposition to the school was consistent. “I’ve been to literally every single meeting they’ve held,” he said. “In every single meeting there’s been stern opposition to this school.” Singleton said the development of the site was meant to generate economic activity in Roxbury. The school, which is open to students from all neighborhoods and has no seats set aside for Roxbury residents, would not bring a significant number of new jobs to the neighborhood. “I don’t see how they got 19 people to agree that this school should be a part of this project,” Singleton said. “This is nonsense. Absolute nonsense.”
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Vote on the candidate’s merits African Americans have developed a wonderfully democratic attitude over the years. A candidate for public office will not benefit substantially from the achievements of his or her family. Similarly the alleged misconduct of family members will not be an impediment. For example, Andrea Campbell, candidate for Boston City Council from District 4, has a pristine record and voters should evaluate her without any consideration of the possible misdeeds of family members. Professional and business achievements are usually considered when assessing an individual’s status. However, decades ago this approach failed with African Americans. Racial discrimination foreclosed advancement opportunities. It was not unusual to see black lawyers working as postal clerks, Ivy League alumni becoming red caps or Pullman porters, and the practice of medical doctors being restricted because they were denied access to hospitals.
The reaction of the black community was to rely on an even higher standard. People were judged as Martin Luther King, Jr. proposed in his “I have a dream” speech by the “content of their character.” This produced an extraordinary result. Individuals could attain success in the community without the enhancement of a veneer of academic achievement. A prime example is Melnea Cass, who became the most politically powerful woman in the community although the difficulties of her life forced her to work in service. We also learned from the Civil Rights Movement that a criminal record could sometimes be a badge of honor. And there are also others who have been driven by the despair of racial oppression to a life of crime. This is an old American pattern of reaction to discrimination against minorities and immigrant groups. Everyone should view such situations from the same perspective as Pope Francis, “Who am I to judge?”
The fall of a divisive symbol For generations, South Carolina has been at the forefront of America’s racial conflict. Now Gov. Nikki Haley has mitigated that role by removing the Confederate battle flag from a place of honor at the state capitol. Soon after Abraham Lincoln was elected president on Nov. 6, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the union as early as Dec. 20, even before Lincoln was scheduled to take office on March 4, 1861. Six other Southern slave states then joined South Carolina to form the Confederacy. On April 12, 1861, when Lincoln had been in office for only a bit more than a month, the Civil War began with a Confederate attack on the Union Army at Fort Sumter, S.C. The war lasted for about four years and its violence was unparalleled. A total of 620,000 lives were lost and there were 1,100,000 casualties. Now the names of great battles remain engraved in American history: Gettysburg, Bull Run, Antietam, Shiloh and Vicksburg, among others. The South lost both the war and the issue that impelled them to battle: the right to enslave others. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1865, abolished that right.
Many members of Southern families lost their status, their property and their lives. A prominent reminder of their political ambitions is the Confederate battle flag that is no longer welcome in many places. Its most distinguished display was on an honored site before South Carolina’s state capitol. In the conflict for human rights, those who oppose racial equality have now lost their battle flag. To more affluent youth, who are not subject to the draft and are not inclined to volunteer for military service, losing one’s battle flag is of little significance. However, older generations find the loss important. Gov. Haley is to be commended for removing the stars and bars from the state capitol. It is a gesture that has been favorably received by blacks across America. The Harvard Foundation is justified in acknowledging the significance of that act by inviting the governor to the university for further discussions. It took about 154 years to relegate the Confederate battle flag to the archives of history. Perhaps discussions at Harvard will inspire Gov. Haley to initiate faster social progress in South Carolina.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Chinatown is just the beginning Looking at Chinatown from the outside, it’s easy to think of the struggle for affordable housing there as an extreme case. But Banner readers shouldn’t forget that black people and working class
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The Oregon Massacre Won’t Shake NRA Stranglehold By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON
President Obama, stern and visibly shaken by the Oregon massacre, lambasted the NRA yet again for its suffocating grip on Congress. An equally shaken Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, said that she was sickened by the sheep-like willingness of Congress to do the bidding of the NRA. Obama didn’t single out Congressional Republicans as the prime culprits, but it was strongly implied that he meant them in the congressional genuflection to the NRA. Clinton, however, did finger Republicans as the culprits and vowed to go after the GOP if elected. Clinton and Obama are right, but both left this out in their targets. In 2010, 53 Democrats took tens of thousands in campaign cash from the NRA. In 2012, a presidential election year, 16 House Democrats and four Senate Democrats were back at the NRA’s cash trough. Now four years later, and despite near weekly gun shootings and massacres, the NRA is unfazed. It wasted no time in plopping down more than $1 million for an ad than ran on Fox News, CNN and on local television in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada during the first GOP presidential debate in August. These are the three early presidential primary or caucus states and an NRA digital ad ran in South Carolina, the other early primary state. This was small change compared to what NRA officials say they’ll spend to beat back even the hint of a congressional move to tighten gun control laws in 2016 and beyond. The NRA has been wildly successful in doing just that for the past decade through a well-oiled, well-versed, labyrinth of PACs, lobbyists, legal counsels, divisions, funds and a foundation. The NRA has these divisions: Federal Affairs, Public Affairs, Finance, Research and Information, Conservation, Wildlife and Natural Resources and most importantly the NRA Political Victory Fund. Its scorecard of wins is still nothing short of phenomenal. In 2008 it was directly or indirectly involved in nearly 300 campaigns for the House and Senate. NRA backed candidates or incumbents won 230 of them. It spared little expense in padding its congressional win scorecard. It ranked in the top tier of contributions received, lobbying dollars spent, and money garnered and spent by its PACs. But it’s not just the NRA’s money and willingness to spend it to pack Congress with pro-gun backers. It also cherry picked former government officials or job holders to do its congressional arm twisting for it. In 2012, fifteen out of its near 30 lobbyists had government ties. The assumption that the NRA is basically a front for conservative GOP business and political interests is, as the NRA dollars to Democrats in 2010 showed, another bad misread. Though a big share of the NRA’s campaign dollars went to Republicans it has been adept at spreading the largess around. In 2012, Democrats received more than $2 million in NRA campaign contributions. The NRA has gotten a stupendous return on the $17 million it spent on federal elections in 2012 and the tens of millions it spent on past elections. In the decade since the assault ban expired in 2004, nearly 20 strong gun control bills have died still born in House and Senate committees. There hasn’t been much movement in the states either to get tougher gun control laws. Thirty-three of the states have the barest minimal gun checks. A dozen others have only slightly more restrictive controls on guns. The Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 plopped the NRA on the nation’s hot seat. The White House, many lawmakers, and much of the public demanded that the NRA soften its hard line opposition to any gun control measures. It almost certainly will do a little to stem the storm which could include calling for stronger measures on storage of weapons, tighter screening and back ground checks, maybe even borrowing a page from the tobacco industry’s PR gambit and advocate hazard warnings on the improper use of guns, and even offer to be part of a national conversation on gun violence. But doing much more than that, such as advocating full blown bans on the big ticket deadly weapons, would upend the philosophical and political bedrock of the NRA. It would jeopardize the near bottomless storehouse of funding that the organization has received from gun industry interests and supporters. It would instantly turn off thousands of avid gun owners that look to the NRA to be its political mouthpiece in Washington and in the states for unfettered gun rights. After each fresh mass bloodletting, Obama and a majority of Americans scream loudly for Congress to do something, anything, to stop the gun carnage. The NRA is always singled out as the group with the blood on its organization’s hands. The Oregon massacre, sadly, won’t shake the NRA stranglehold that insures that nothing is done.
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What do you think can be done to prevent mass shootings like the one in Oregon last week?
We need stricter gun control. People shouldn’t have access to 14 guns and ammunition. If you’re not fighting a war, why do you need that?
People who have mental problems need better help. We also need better restrictions on gun ownership.
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More security in the schools.
There are too many guns. We need better gun control.
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I think everyone should get together, protest and pray. We need more peace. We need unity.
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More gun control. Take away assault rifles. We’re not in Iraq. No one needs those.
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JANINE ANZALOTA May o r Ma r t i n J. Wa l s h announced the appointment of Janine Anzalota as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Fair Housing & Equity for the City of Boston. She has served as interim Director for the department since this past July. “Janine exemplifies a dedicated commitment to public service and I’m thrilled of her now permanent appointment as the Office of Fair Housing Director,” Walsh said. “She has developed an extended track record of service to the many Bostonians throughout the city in many other capacities since 2007. I am pleased with her decision to continue in this function.” “I am incredibly humbled and appreciative to Mayor Walsh for this opportunity to continue to serve Boston,” said Anzalota. “His confidence in my ability and recognition of my passion to serve the public drives me to continue to work diligently to give Boston exceptional service.” Anzalota joined the city of Bos-
ton as a Senior Program Manager with the Boston Public Health Commission in February of 2007. Prior to that Anzalota was a social worker with Boston Medical Center. In January 2011 Anzalota was given the Boston Public Health Commission’s Emerging Young Leader award and later in July of the same year, the National Association of County and City Health Official’s award for Model Practice. Over the course of 10 years Anzalota has a vast array of professional writing she has contributed for scholarly analysis on racial justice in health and community engagement and has been invited as the keynote speaker for several conference presentations and panels. Anzalota also worked as the Director of the Boston Public Health Commission’s Coordinated Social Support & Training, as well as REACH Obesity & Hypertension Project. Anzalota is a graduate of Worcester State University, where
she received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology & Sociology and Boston University, where she earned a Master of Social Work and a Master of Public Health. She currently resides in Jamaica Plain.
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The prominence and plight of girls in the juvenile justice system Girls, many of whom have suffered a range of trauma at home, make up a growing share of children arrested and detained across the country By JOE SEXTON PROPUBLICA
The number of juveniles in the nation’s criminal justice system has been in decline for years. California and New York have closed some of their largest and most troubled juvenile detention facilities. Missouri has recently been credited with doing a better job of caring for its most troubled children, further limiting the state’s population of teens in punitive settings. But a recent report by researchers has highlighted what they call a disturbing trend: the prominence and plight of girls in the juvenile justice system. In 1992, according to the report, “Gender Injustice,” girls made up 20 percent of the children arrested in the U.S. In 2012, girls accounted for 29 percent of children arrested, a near 50 percent increase. The percentage of girls in the population of children sent to formal detention facilities grew similarly over those years. The authors of the report, Francine Sherman, a professor at Boston College Law School, and Annie Balck, a lawyer formerly
with the Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., explain the trend by citing the unintended consequences of a crackdown on domestic violence as well as the failures of reform efforts to address the specific needs of girls. Girls in the juvenile justice system, they argue, are far more likely to have suffered a range of trauma at home before they wind up arrested. Indeed, girls are 4.4 times more likely than boys to have been sexually abused prior to their brushes with the law. “In every category, girls in the juvenile justice system find themselves there having experienced more adversity than boys,” said Sherman, whose report was done in partnership with The National Crittenton Foundation. The foundation says that it is dedicated to the health and security of girls and young women across the country. The authors found that girls are over-represented in certain categories of arrests — crimes they said could often be handled without the need for placement in detention. For instance, girls accounted for 76 percent of arrests for prostitution and 40 percent of arrests for liquor law
violations. ProPublica this year has reported on the history and variety of troubles in California’s group homes for troubled children. Many of the children who wind up in the homes arrive via the state’s juvenile justice system. The homes are typically not secure detention facilities, but have been beset by problems that long plagued the state’s locked facilities: physical and sexual abuse, mixed populations of children that make supervision more difficult, and inadequate or inconsistent medical care. In New York City, ProPublica found that the latest wave of group homes created to better care for children convicted of minor crimes had also been hit by surges in the disappearances or re-arrests of children in their care. The problems in California’s homes have been compounded by the shortage of facilities exclusively for girls. As a result, there have been instances where girls have been introduced to homes that had formerly housed only boys. At one of the state’s largest homes, in Davis, the introduction of girls overwhelmed inexperienced staff members and accelerated the
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eventual collapse and closing of the residence in 2013. The Gender Injustice report issued last week sought to call attention to what it presented as something of a counter-intuitive finding: Efforts by local police departments to act aggressively and make arrests while responding to reported cases of domestic violence had led to a striking number of girls being sent to detention facilities. Sherman said officers often believed “someone had to be arrested” in such cases, and that girls
who might have been violent in defending themselves against assault had been swept up as a consequence. In 2013, girls accounted for 38 percent of the children arrested for “domestic battery.” The authors offer an array of proposed reforms to better address girls in detention. They suggest ending the detention of girls for violations that pose no meaningful public threat and more effectively providing services to traumatized girls before they themselves wind up in the justice system.
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City officials, activists discuss racial equity By YAWU MILLER
Government officials and activists from the nonprofit sector came together last week to explore ways to combat racial inequality in Boston during a day-long conference in Dudley Square. While conference participants rolled up their sleeves and discussed innovative ways to level the playing field for people of color and women in city government, city officials — including Fire Commissioner Joe Finn, the city’s chief diversity officer and Health and Human Services chief — discussed their efforts to bring progressive change to a city long known for its entrenched tribalism. “The racial inequalities that plague our city are a detriment to us all,” said Shaun Blugh, Boston’s chief diversity officer. The conference, titled “Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government,” was sponsored by the city of Boston and a coalition of housing, health and civil rights groups. Training sessions on advancing racial equity were led by Glenn Harris, president of the New Yorkbased Center for Social Inclusion and Julie Nelson, director of the Seattle-based Government Alliance of Race and Equity. Nelson noted that the current national climate, with increased media coverage of police abuse and fierce anti-immigrant rhetoric in the Republican presidential primary, creates an opening for more substantive conversations about race bias. “In some ways, what we’ve done
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City officials, including Chief Diversity Officer Shaun Blugh (left) listen in on a training session during the conference titled “Advancing Racial Equity: The Role of Government.” is to normalize racial inequalities,” he said. “We have to have a greater sense of urgency.” Nelson said that the city of Seattle’s contract work with minorityand women-owned businesses shrank to just 3 percent after Washington voters passed a 1998 ballot initiative that prohibits the state from considering race in student admissions, employment or contract awards. Because white-owned businesses are older and larger than most minority- and woman-owned businesses, the latter firms had difficulty competing for state and city contracts. Nelson said Seattle began breaking contracts into smaller pieces to make it easier for those
firms to compete — a race-neutral policy that saw Seattle’s contracts with minority- and woman-owned businesses shoot up to 30 percent. “We focused on the results,” she said. Nelson said city officials should start by considering the desired results when planning inclusionary policies, while keeping in mind unintended consequences.
Results-driven strategy
“Look at who benefits from decisions and who loses,” she said. “Government makes decisions that impact people of color. If there’s a decision that impacts people in different ways, we have to consider how we make that decision.”
While some in city government are working to increase diversity and expand opportunities for people of color, city officials still face thorny issues. Blacks, Latinos and Asians are under-represented in the police and fire departments, particularly in the upper ranks. And ten years after consent decrees mandating that those departments consider black and Latino candidates for hire, incoming classes of police and fire recruits are consistently more than 90 percent white. In Boston city government, Mayor Martin Walsh has assembled a diverse team of department heads, but there are few Latinos leading city agencies. At the same time, members of
Walsh’s staff are working on race disparities in the city — including the so-called achievement gap between white Boston Public Schools students and students of color and the city’s My Brother’s Keeper initiative, aimed at improving life outcomes for black and Latino teens and young men. “We’re working on policies that address inequality across the city,” said Janine Anzalota, the city’s newly appointed head of the Office of Fair Housing and Equity. Anzalota said her office is looking at racial inclusion policies that have worked to expand access in other cities. “There are best practices in cities like Seattle we’d like to look at, ranging from how they’re hiring to how they’re filling potholes,” she said. Atyia Martin heads the city’s resilience initiative — an externally-funded effort aimed at ensuring the city is able to bounce back from natural disasters, terrorist incidents and other stressors. She says racial disparities in health, education and income can affect how the city as a whole is able to recover from shocks. “Looking at the role of government in addressing inequality is at the core of our resiliency strategy,” she said. “The ultimate goal of this position is to design and implement a resilient strategy for the city of Boston. They way we’re addressing it is rooted in equity.” Martin said she considers racism to be a “chronic stressor” that can affect the city’s ability to rebound from shocks. “The people who suffer before a disaster are disproportionately impacted after disasters,” she said.
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BRT praised for Dudley but responsibility is divided By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
There may be widespread agreement that we need to fix the T. But, as became clear at a “Transit in Dudley Square” panel hosted by the Rappaport Center last week, even if everyone were to agree on a solution, not everyone agrees on who “we” is. Panel members included authorities from all levels: Stephanie Pollack, secretary of the state Department of Transportation; John Barros, Boston chief of Economic Development; and Juan Leyton, executive director of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, as well as Gilad Rosenzweig, founder and executive director of Smarter in the City, a high-tech start up business accelerator based in Dudley Square. Pollack, Barros and Rosenzweig pointed to the transformation of Dudley Square’s bus system into a Bus Rapid Transit system as perhaps the easiest and most feasible transit
improvement. The effort and time to implement are relatively low. Leyton, too, spoke positively of time efficiencies generated by rapid transit, but cautioned that careful consideration needs to be given for how any development would impact the community. Despite the seeming agreement, a complicated division of authority hampers the coordination needed to achieve this vision.
Rapid transit, rapidly delivered
BRT, if implemented at a Gold Standard level, has many attractive aspects: a dedicated bus line — typically in the center of the road — uninterrupted by traffic or parked cars; enclosed stations with amenities; prepaid fairs and wheel-chair accessible platforms for efficient boarding. Even more appealing: it is a tangible solution that can be executed fairly quickly, compared to other transit fixes.
“Trains and subways can take years [or] decades to be implemented,” said Rosenzweig, who has lived in Tel Aviv, Toronto and London, all of which have BRT. “You’ve got to look at the buses because these can be implemented in a year.” An advantage: BRT avoids expensive and time-intensive tunnel construction. Rosenzweig said when London tackled transit reform in 2010, bus lanes were drawn in one night. The buses’ new efficiency caused a significant portion of commuters to choose them over trains. “Literally overnight they painted lines in the roads,” he said. “[They] added hundreds of buses. Between 2000-2003 ridership increased by 22 percent — not in the whole system. A lot of it was taking [ridership] off the trains.” Just bringing rapid transit to Dudley would impact thousands of people.
“Dudley Square’s bus routes, if you thought of it as a single transit station, would be the eighth largest transit system in Boston,” said Pollack. “16,000 people get on and off buses at Dudley.” In their remarks, Rosenzweig and Pollack highlighted improvements on conditions and commuting times: enclosed stations with heat, shelter and public restrooms; mechanisms for purchasing or loading tickets prior to the bus’s arrival; raised platforms for easier and quicker wheelchair and stroller access.
Who conducts the conductors?
Responsibility for improving the MBTA is divided between the city and state, creating a system wherein either party can easily shift responsibility to the other. The state runs the MBTA and controls buses and drivers. Boston manages roads and sidewalks, which include new bus lanes, stations and parking spaces as well as setting traffic light timing. Transit reform, said Pollack, “takes a bus. I own those. It takes drivers. I’ve got lots of those. It takes space on asphalt — I don’t own any asphalt. That all belongs to the city.” “The city controls half of what you need to make buses work, and the state controls buses and drivers,” she concluded. “The MBTA first and foremost is a state authority,” countered Barros. A third prong of interested parties is the community. And the community, Pollack said, is divided over how it wants its limited road space used. “We say the community has to have a voice. The city has two voices: a voice for transit and a voice for driving,” she said. “Bus rapid transit is privileging buses over people in cars. That’s a local decision.” Leyton said that community
members are not opposing plans, but are seeking to ensure they are involved in planning the economic and transit revitalization of their neighborhood. “From a community perspective we’re not saying no to things, we’re saying, ‘How can we sit at the table?’” It also is not a discussion of simply how to get from point A to point B more quickly. Community concerns extend past the immediate transit tangles to initiatives’ broader area impact. Transit improvements and other efforts to energize the economy, Leyton said, must be handled with care to address – and not exacerbate – residential unemployment and housing issues. “If we do it, we have to do it right and think about how that’s going to impact the community,” he said. “Seventy-seven percent of people living in this community are renters. They fear they can be evicted because rent increases.” New transit and businesses could make the area attractive to those with the means to spend more and priceout residents.
Driving forward
The state’s attention also is divided among all cities and towns, which makes it easy to set aside the question of Boston’s transit needs unless Boston approaches with a detailed plan, said Pollack. “Bus rapid transit succeeds when the city wants it to succeed,” she said. “If the city said it wanted it and gave routes, the state would work on it.” Time for those plans may be approaching. Officials and representatives including Barros will visit Mexico City in November to study its BRT system. Once trip members get back, Barros said, the focus will be on revamping the Silver Line to meet BRT standards — measures against which the Silver Line falls short.
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continued from page A1 and academic and transit experts from across Boston, examined 18 possible routes and then narrowed the list to five priority corridors: Dudley to Downtown, Dudley to Mattapan, Readville to Forest Hills, Harvard to Dudley, and Sullivan Square to Longwood Area. The corridors were identified as meeting key criteria: reduce existing congestion on the T; serve underserved communities or groups; meet additional demand by providing a more direct travel option; and address the need for planned future development. Reducing travel time to 30 minutes between Dudley and Harvard, the report says, would improve connectivity between academic and life science clusters and reduce traffic congestion around Red Sox games; with a Dudley-to-Mattapan route, BRT would serve “tremendous demand and potential” along Blue Hill Avenue. Mary Skelton Roberts, Barr’s senior program officer for climate, has observed successful BRT implementations in Mexico and Colombia, systems she described as are far above what people might picture when imagining improved bus service. She emphasized that the Boston BRT report focuses on the Gold Standard — true BRT characterized by enclosed stations, pre-paid fare collection, and physically-separated bus-only lanes. Few U.S. cities have true BRT, and Boston is no exception. “The Silver Line is not BRT,” Skelton Roberts emphasized. She said the Silver Line, occupying the path of the old elevated Orange Line and seen by many Bostonians as a disappointing substitute for light rail, falls short even of “Bronze-level” BRT. In its above-ground sections, fares are still collected one-by-one as passengers board, and Silver Line buses are slowed as their lanes have to be shared with bicycles and with right-turning or double-parked vehicles. The Barr Foundation’s approach was to examine BRT’s technical feasibility for Boston first, Skelton Roberts said, and with that knowledge in hand, gather community response. “It makes no sense to engage any community in a discussion if you can’t even build it,” she said. Malia Lazu, executive director of Future Boston, was in the Study Group. Since the report release, she has been posting frequently on Twitter about BRT, urging followers to weigh in on questions like “How would your life change if you could connect quickly to any neighborhood in the city via #MBTA?” and providing links to the BRT report. Lazu said neither she nor her organization are pushing BRT, but instead are working to ramp up the discussion. “We don’t know if the community is going to like this, but we think it’s worth having a conversation. Our tweets are asking questions, asking what people think,” she said. Besides the Silver Line’s quasi-BRT promise, other BRT proposals have been floated for Boston. In recent years, BRT was proposed for Melnea Cass Boulevard, but that plan has been put on hold in response to community concerns about widening the street and skepticism about the usefulness of a short BRT route. In 2009, the “28X” proposal for Blue Hill Avenue, to be funded with
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“you have to have a tunnel under Roxbury. Is this feasible? Yes. But affordable? Not right now.”
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Advocates say commuters would shave minutes off the Dudley Square to Downtown Crossing ride on the Silver Line were it a genuine bus rapid transit line. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars, was scuttled in the face of community reluctance, some of it general and some particularly around the difficulty of siting BRT lanes on the narrower Warren Street in Roxbury. “With 28X,” Skelton Roberts said, “I don’t think there was enough time. There was some federal funding, so there was urgency. It looked suspicious. It seemed very solution-oriented, without input from the community.”
Missed opportunity?
State Rep. Russell Holmes, whose was elected to his Mattapan district after the 28X rejection, still regrets that his community did not take advantage of the federal funds. He is pleased to see that the new report validates his office’s findings on high rider demand along Blue Hill Avenue. “I look forward to the discussions beginning anew. I think BRT would serve my district, my folks,” Holmes said. “There will be nothing smooth about this process, because of the history of 28X,” Holmes added. [But] we need people to be able to get to the center city and to jobs faster.” Holmes was not part of the BRT Study Group, but will be among the community members and leaders heading to Mexico City with the Barr Foundation in November to look at BRT there. He said he did play a role in advising the Barr Foundation on engaging the community properly. “I said, get into the neighborhoods, make sure you come at this by addressing what’s important to the neighborhood,” Holmes said. “You’re going to need the will of the people to do this. And you have to show people what real BRT looks like.” Some events this month in Roxbury and Mattapan are intended to show what BRT might look like and spark community input. In Mattapan Square on Oct. 22 or 23, Future Boston will facilitate an “information-collecting experience,” Lazu said. The public event will include visual images of Gold Standard BRT lines and an artist-led “civic hack” to investigate transportation solutions. (Further event details will be posted at www.futureboston.com.) In Dudley Square this week, MIT’s Media Lab and Urban Studies and Planning departments are partnering with Nuestra Comunidad on a series of BRT modeling workshops Oct. 8–10 at the Roxbury Innovation Center, followed by a several-day public exhibit. To sign up for a workshop, see http://tinyurl.com/brttools or call 781-606-0278.
Dr. Ryan Chin, a Media Lab research scientist, said his group has combined a Lego-based physical model with electronic data, enabling visitors to see, play with and compare what transportation looks like with standard bus systems vs. varied levels of BRT service. His group will be studying how residents engage with this new type of modeling. “Historically, community development has been from the top down — a ‘design and defend’ process,” Chin said. “We don’t want that. We want a co-creative process based on open data. The tools we have should be able to provide high level of detail on the tradeoffs [of different transportation options].” Tradeoffs to consider with BRT include a reduction in the number of bus stops but a faster trip once
on the bus, and loss of a traffic or parking lane but a possible benefit of having a lane freed from the inand-out movement of buses. State Rep. Byron Rushing was not in the Study Group but has watched local transportation politics for many years. He expressed uncertainty on the report’s rosy picture. “They are suggesting that it is possible to do real BRT in Boston. I’m not sure if that’s true,” said Rushing. “There is no solution if it doesn’t spend as much time on the politics as the technology.” Rushing echoed past concerns about how BRT could be implemented on narrow but significant transportation routes, such as Warren Street around Dudley Square. “If you want faster public transit on Blue Hill Avenue,” he said,
The Study Group report acknowledges that Warren Street poses a thorny problem, but suggests that it is one worth pondering. “Alternatives to the narrow section of Warren Street ... are limited,” the report says. “With the very high existing demand ... it would be a mistake to overlook the benefits BRT could hold for this important corridor. But any proposed BRT corridor must be driven by the communities’ demand and vision for the neighborhoods involved.” The BRT Study Group members were Eric Bourassa, Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC); Rick Dimino, A Better City; Jackie Douglas, LivableStreets Alliance; Ben Forman, MassINC; Chris Hart, Institute for Human Centered Design; Melissa Jones, Boston LISC; Malia Lazu, Future Boston; David Lee, Stull & Lee Inc., Architecture and Planning; Bill Lyons, Urban Land Institute of Boston; Tom Nally, A Better City; David Price, Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation; Jessica Robertson, MAPC; Paul Schimek, TranSystems; Darnell Williams, Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts; and Chris Zegras, MIT.
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similar laws in other cities such as San Francisco and Chicago. The major change in Boston’s proposed law is a provision allowing the tenant to request mediation with the landlord and a third party in cases where rent would be increased by more than 5 percent, said Johnson. The mediation would be non-binding but may help both tenant and landlord find a solution without going to court and save on legal fees. Massachusetts Housing Court offers its own mediation services. Johnson said the coalition is examining possible incentives that could be offered to landlords. Other goals include designated rent-stabilized zones around transportation nodes and rapidly gentrifying areas, increased affordable housing offerings and more efforts to ensure public land is controlled by community land trusts.
continued from page A1 formed in an apartment building there to fight rent increases and advocate for improvements.
Fault: no; Eviction: yes
The practice most under fire: Massachusetts’ no-fault eviction law. A landlord seeking higher profit may terminate the existing rental contract with sufficient notice — 30 days or one rental period, whichever is longer — and offer the tenants a new one stipulating higher rent. If the tenants cannot or will not sign the new contract or move out voluntarily, landlords might choose to file for no-fault eviction. Under no-fault eviction the landlord acknowledges in court that the tenant has not breached any terms in their contract and requests that the judge rule that the tenant be removed. The tenant may have little legal defense available. Unlike an atfault case, there is no complaint to dispute or redress. The tenant may, however, request a stay period. A Right to Remain press release pointed to corporate, speculative and non-resident landlords as particularly likely to use eviction for profit-seeking purposes.
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Above, Davida Andelman and Right to the City Boston’s Darnell Johnson spoke at the site of the Dot Block development, a proposed 429-unit apartment and condominium complex. Andelman said two-bedroom apartments are expected to rent for $2,500 a month. Below, supporters bearing signs and chanting slogans marched to bring attention to housing displacement.
Renters at risk
Reforms to rental laws could affect hundreds of thousands: 68 percent of Bostonians are renters, according to a report issued by Right to the City Boston. In many cases, those subject to no-fault evictions are people who are eligible for affordable housing. A severe shortfall of affordable-designated units keeps them in the general market. “The majority of Boston renters are people of color with median household incomes of $34,000,” said Yvette Modestin, community organizer at Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation and co-host of the event. The average rent for a one-bedroom unit is $2,400 a month, an amount only affordable with a $96,000 income, said Darnell Johnson, regional coordinator of Right to the City Boston, which helped organize the assembly. State voters rejected rent control via a 1994 ballot measure. When landlords increase rents, many tenants find it impossible to pay. Across many neighborhoods rent increases outstrip wage increases, resulting in the force-out of long-time residents in favor of wealthy newcomers.
In some cases being priced out of housing results in being displaced from the entire neighborhood. The Boston Redevelopment Authority’s approval of 1,000 units of luxury development in East Boston caused rent increases of approximately 30 percent per year, according to a Right to Remain press release. Right to Remain predicted that as a result nearly 90 percent of residents in the primarily Latino-immigrant neighborhood will
be force to move. “Chinatown was built by residents and is for people who need the services in Chinatown,” said Jian Hua Tang, co-chair of the Chinese Progressive Association. She said she has lived in Boston for 19 years and seen her rent more than double, while wages changed far less. “We want to see a Chinatown forever, not just for us, but for the people in the future. We need a Chinatown that’s accessible to working families.”
With just cause eviction
Right to Remain Assembly organizers called for legislation requiring landlords to provide a reason for evicting tenants — such as property damage or failure to pay rent — and instating protections around evictions of families with children in grades K-12, so that the students’ schools years are not disrupted, or families with elderly members. Right to Remain proponents modeled their legislation around
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Passing the Just Cause Eviction bill would require support of seven city councilors, with one of them sponsoring it. Bob Terrell of the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston said Right to Remain aims to recruit nine city councilors to ensure the mayor cannot veto. Six councilors and two candidates attended the assembly or sent staff members on their behalf to voice their support. These were Tito Jackson, Michael Flaherty, Frank Baker, Stephen Murphy, Charles Yancey, Michelle Wu, Ayanna Pressley, Andrea Campbell, Charles Clemons and Annisa Essabi George. “Nobody should be evicted for no cause of their own,” said Councilor Baker. Clemons said he had personal experience: he spent four months homeless after being evicted from a home he owned for 23 years. Since June, supporters have collected 2,708 signatures from renters, homeowners and landlords across Boston who favor the law, said assembly co-host, Mimi Ramos of Right to the City Boston. To date, councilors have not read the drafted legislation, said Johnson, though parts of it have been shared with the Department of Neighborhood Development. Later this year coalition members will present the proposed bill to Sheila Dillon, chief of Housing, to discuss how it might be implemented, Johnson said. He added that by early spring they plan to file legislation with the city council. Johnson said that the participation and response of city councilors “give us hope that they will be with us.”
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How businesses can help injured workers recover faster More than 1 million Americans suffer from work-related injuries each year, ranging from serious crushing injuries at a construction site to muscle or joint problems caused by repetitive activities in an office setting. Workplace injuries can also be costly to both the person injured and the employer. Most employees do not receive their full pay while in recovery, and, according to the National Safety Council, employers pay an average of $40,000 per injury. In addition to the $1 billion the U.S. Department of Labor estimates employers pay annually in direct medical and workers’ compensation costs, businesses incur several indirect costs when an employee is injured. These expenses can include training for replacement employees, accident investigations and corrective actions, repurchase or repair of damaged equipment or property, absenteeism and more. Helping employees avoid injuries before they occur is always the best course of action, but when workplace injuries do happen, employers should have a prepared plan that helps employees recover as safely as medically appropriate and manages costs for all parties involved. Early medical intervention is one approach that can make a difference for the injured employee and the business. Delaying either the reporting or treatment of a workplace injury can increase costs by more than 50 percent, according to a new study by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. When an employee is injured, he or she should promptly identify the injury and work with his or her employer to establish the best plan of care. This will help reduce recovery time and lower the costs associated with the injury. Travelers developed a patented program called ConciergeCLAIM Nurse to provide injured employees with live, face-to-face engagement with a Travelers on-staff nurse who can answer their questions, guide them through the workers’ compensation claim process and assist them with that process throughout their recovery. Because many injured employees come to urgent care clinics as a result of their first on-the-job accident, the Travelers ConciergeCLAIM Nurse program places nurses in select urgent care clinics operated by U.S. HealthWorks or Concentra in more than 50 locations across the country. After the employee has met with the clinic’s doctor, the Travelers nurse reviews the treatment plan and develops a comprehensive return-to-work focused recovery plan. This process includes: n Clearly setting expectations about the claims process in order to reduce uncertainty, anxiety or fear; n Assisting the employee with information he or she may need about the medical treatment plan developed by the clinic’s physician; and n Using the nurse’s medical knowledge to help facilitate the care suggested by medical providers. This help can also lead to faster and more accurate claims and claims-payment decisions. Over a three-year period, workers’ compensation cases using this approach reduced the number of days injured employees were out of work by 41 percent. The number of days it took them to See BIZ BITS, page A15
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Boston-based Zipcar was one of the front runners in what has become known as the sharing economy. Below, ride-sharing company Uber has come to represent the sharing economy in the battle for regulation and government controls.
Regulating the sharing economy
Congress probes consumer, business protections in growing sector By MARTIN DESMARAIS
In proceedings closely watched by many small business owners and entrepreneurs across the country, the sharing economy went before Congress last week for a stark examination of how it creates jobs, benefits consumers, but also raises a slew of policy concerns and questions. At stake is the question of how much regulation businesses in the sharing economy need. When all was said and done Congress remains indecisive at this point — the hearing offered praise and criticism of some the high profile companies in the sharing economy — but it was clear that the government is not going to just let the sector alone. Generally speaking, the sharing economy refers to types of business built on the sharing of resources, which allows customers to access goods without ownership. However, in practice the sharing economy has become a great way for startups and small businesses to challenge existing business sectors using new technology and social networks to gain customers and a competitive advantage. Ride-sharing service Uber has become the flag bearer for the sharing economy, having turned the traditionally rigid and highly regulated taxi cab industry on its head. Yet critics say without regulations Uber has an unfair business advantage. O t h e r s h a r i n g e c o n o my
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Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX, chair of the recent Congressional hearing on the sharing economy. companies, including lodging network Airbnb, ridesharing service Lyft and digital marketplace Thumbtack, face the same claims. Boston has produced a number of sharing economy frontrunners, including car rental service Zipcar, alcohol delivery app Drizly and nightlife booking app Tablelist.
The benefits
The hearings in front of Congress on Sept. 29 were held by a congressional subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-TX, wasted no time acknowledging the one thing that even sharing economy detractors have trouble dismissing — it’s creating jobs for a lot of people. “The opportunities sharing
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“The differences in the business models raise different sets of policy considerations. To take two prominent examples, Uber and Airbnb have both figured out how to take underutilized resources, private cars and private dwellings, and create productive assets out of them by enabling people to ‘share’ them with others for a fee. But saying they are both part of the same sector totally obscures the radically different policy issues raised by both,” Lieber said. “Airbnb doesn’t have the labor issues that Uber does, and Uber doesn’t have the zoning and other issues that Airbnb does.”
continued from page A14 platforms provide are often in addition to, not necessarily instead of, the streams of income available to traditional employment sources. The sharing economy has captured the entrepreneurial spirit of many Americans already. Those who engage in freelance jobs are expected to skyrocket to 40 percent of the workforce in the next five years — and almost eight million will be participating in the sharing economy,” Burgess said. Burgess stressed that he wants to examine how sharing economy businesses have built accountability and consumer protection into their technology platforms. “Eventually we must confront the question of whether and how Congress responds to these types of firms. Many suggest no action is warranted, either by Congress of local regulators and others are seeking direct and immediate intervention both at the federal and the local level,” Burgess added. “There should be some limited government oversight, particularly where safety is significant, and firms should be thinking about privacy, firms should be thinking about cybersecurity from the outset.” He also pointed out that the sharing economy does already face some of the same regulations traditional businesses face and he stressed he was more concerned about existing regulations hurting the development of new jobs in the sharing economy than he was about the need for new regulations to govern the sector. With the sharing economy topping $15 billion a year globally and on track for more than $300 billion annually in the next five years,
Risky business? PHOTO COURTESY OF ZIPCAR
Zipcar is a Boston-based company. Burgess echoes sentiment that it is a mistake to tamper too much with one of the world’s biggest emerging sectors. He also said what many have been thinking about the backlash leveled at companies like Uber for disrupting long-established industries — we have to make sure regulation is needed and not just a result of cries from those who don’t want any change or competition that upsets the status quo. Also, with 80 million Americans taking advantage of the many sharing economy services, Congress is hesitant to enact policies that would dampen that demand. “We should be highly skeptical of interventions that take away new conveniences and measurable benefits for consumers,” Burgess said.
Diverse voices
The hearing featured a number of witnesses to discuss sharing economy issues. These included
Dean Baker, co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research; Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager, Intuit; Michael Beckerman, president and chief executive officer The Internet Association; Jon Lieber, chief economist, Thumbtack; and Luceele Smith, driver-partner, Uber. Thumbtack’s Lieber pointed out that policymakers should not overlook the fact that the rise of mobile devices and technology means that the sharing economy — at least in the form of having easy technology to connect consumers with services or goods — is here to stay and that regulations related to it should not stifle growth or overlook the importance to the current and future economy. He also cautioned against broad thinking or strokes that overlooked the wide variety of ways sharing economy businesses operate and the folly of thinking general policies could cover them all.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research’s Baker pointed out some of the risks the continued growth of the sharing economy could have, especially regarding consumer and labor regulations, taxes, property rights and anti-discrimination laws. “The country has built up an extensive regulatory structure over many decades to protect workers, consumers and property owners,” Baker said. “The sharing economy will require the modernization of this regulatory structure. In some cases, regulations have outlived their usefulness and should be eliminated. However, many of these regulations serve important public purposes. If the sharing economy is used as a way to circumvent them, then it will impose substantial costs on society.” Uber driver Smith highlighted what most believe are the strengths of the sharing economy and the reasons it is so important going forward. For her, Uber is the chance for a good job that that allows her to make money and control her employment in way she can be most successful.
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scar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (“An Inconvenient Truth”) hits the screen again with the heartwarming and inspirational documentary “He Named Me Malala,” about Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Through the film Malala and her family are able to share their story with the world in their own voices. Not only do we see Malala the activist, but we’re also given a glimpse into the daily life of the 18-yearold and her family — father Ziauddin, mother Toor Pekai and her two younger brothers Khushal and Atal — all of whom now reside in the U.K. after her 2012 attempted assassination by Taliban militants, who shot her in the head as she was returning home from school by bus.
The director and producer of “An Inconvenient Truth” and the 2010 thought-provoking film “Waiting for ‘Superman’,” Guggenheim spent a year and a half with the Yousafzais, accompanying them throughout the globe. He’s on record calling the experience perhaps the greatest privilege in his life. Guggenheim recently spoke to the Banner about his first encounter with Malala and her family, what he learned about himself during the filming process and her relationship with her parents.
What was your first encounter like with Malala? Davis Guggenheim: I remember I flew to Birmingham, England. I took a cab to her house, rang the doorbell. I didn’t know who I was going to meet. I may have been introduced to a few Muslim families but I’ve never really known any Muslim families, which is surprising. You sort of bring with it some of the baggage of information that you know.
She came to the door, answered it, and then I walked in. It was a kitchen, just like the kitchen I live in. It was kind of a fun, joyous family. She’s a very modest person. She’s very poised and in the moment, which is very, very surprising.
Was there any hesitation on their part in allowing you into their home and being with them and following them and showing the other side of her life? DG: It wasn’t as much hesitation. I think part of them was like ‘Who is this guy — this guy with this long hair and looks very different from we do?’ They weren’t as familiar with what a documentary film is. They told their story before, but to journalists. And the New York Times did a short film. But my process is very different. Very soon they opened up, and we became very close. There was a
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Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith searches for father and self in the documentary ‘In My Father’s House’ By COLETTE GREENSTEIN
Celebrated rapper, songwriter, MC and activist Che “Rhymefest” Smith has rhymed since he was a teen growing up in Chicago. With Kanye West, he co-wrote the Grammy-winning song “Jesus Walks” and picked up best original song awards — an Oscar and Golden Globe — earlier this year for co-writing “Glory,” the title track from the movie “Selma”. Long known in the hip hop world, Smith is back in the spotlight again. This time, it’s for the heartwarming and sometimes raw documentary “In My Father’s House,” which details his reunion with his estranged father Brian, an alcoholic living on the streets. Smith, who hadn’t spoken to his father since he was 12, decided
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The documentary took a year and a half to film. During that time, you’re traveling with them, you’re with them, and you’re experiencing everything that they are, first-hand. What did you learn about yourself during that time? DG: You don’t think ‘Well, the
to search for him after purchasing his childhood home on Chicago’s South Side. He initially began filming on his own before directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” and “Knuckleball!”) stepped in to take the helm. The Chicago MC met Stern and Sundberg through a mutual producer friend in Los Angeles. Stern and Sundberg were drawn to Smith’s story after seeing a few scenes of footage where Che and Brian first meet as adults and have dinner together. Annie Sundberg recalls “that was very much the scene that we felt held so much possibility of what was to come. None of us, the viewers or we personally, had any idea what might come from this one union and reunion, and that sparked us. That was really the genesis for us to dive right into
it,” says the filmmaker by phone. Ricki Stern adds that they felt there “was this universal quest in there, one of knowing who you are by understanding your past and moving forward in the future and making changes. [Smith] definitely felt that not knowing his past with his father was causing him to maybe not move forward in the way that he wanted to.” The hip hop artist was grateful that the duo took over the filming process. “They said ‘Let us take that burden, and you just operate with your father.’ That really freed me up to not have to tell the story, but to live the story,” says Smith. “While it’s true that I’ve been documenting, I’ve never had it documented by someone else, which is a different thing. It was actually a relief that I didn’t have to drive the train and lay the tracks at the same time.”
filmmaker should be dispassionate.’ I like when movies play on me. It made me ask myself, ‘What kind of father I am?’ I have two daughters. I know I say they’re equal, but do I believe it in my heart? What are my sorts of subtle prejudices and how could I be like Zia? What could I do to make my daughters feel as powerful and give them that sense of agency that made Malala speak out? I still don’t know what that is. The fact that it plays on me so much is good.
Where does Zia’s determination for Malala to be educated come from? DG: Zia’s father was a cleric, but a cleric almost implies just a religious figure. I think he was also a teacher of ideas. Clerics are communicating the messages of Islam, [which] I think is part of it. I also think he was a student who was inspired. First, he had a stutter and knew he couldn’t become a cleric. Here’s an interesting thing. For a while he was inspired to live jihad, which means you’re dying for the faith, which is often misused by terrorists. Because he was so moved by people, he said this, ‘Let me die for Islam.’ Then, I think, as he became more educated, I think he had a few teachers who taught about Martin Luther King, and he started to learn this idea about human rights. For him and a small group of people where they lived, this idea of basic human rights was a profound thing. This idea that people deserved water,
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(L-R): Brian and his son Che “Rhymefest” Smith Interestingly enough, the rapper found his dad living on Chicago’s West Side, just a few blocks from where he would drop off his wife Donnie for work every morning. In the beginning of his journey, he didn’t have any preconceived notions or ideas about what might happen. “Before I met my father, I had already forgiven him. I already decided to lay down whatever farce
or bad feelings I had. So there wasn’t a thing where I expected him to make some big revelation that would free me. I already had forgiven him before I started the journey. The only thing I wanted was to know who he was. I didn’t have any expectations other than learning more about him, and in learning more about him it would ultimately give me the answers I needed about me.”
girls deserved a name, girls deserved an education. This became very meaningful for him.
from her mother. Her mother is a very powerful woman.
The film focused on the relationship between Malala and her father but I wanted to know more about her mother. What is their relationship like? DG: I think it’s important to know the difference between religion and custom. From where she was — and she’s a very traditional woman from Pashtun society — being on camera was immodest. I think some people read too much into that, that maybe she was pushed into the background, and that’s not the case. She’s a very strong woman. She chose not to be in the movie as much. Towards the end she opened up a lot and loves the movie. At the core, for those who know Malala really well, she gets her passion and her sense of mission from her father, but her moral strength — and she is a very strong woman — and her spiritual strength come
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Did you ever feel that you were being drawn into their lives and that you wanted to affect change yourself? DG: It’s interesting. In some respects, the roots of documentary or journalism — journalists are supposed to be dispassionate, but I’m very passionate. I want to feel the emotion that I feel. I want the audience to feel the emotion I feel when I learn about these stories. That’s one thing. I love when a movie is part of something bigger. ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ helped invigorate the conversation on climate change. ‘Waiting For “Superman”’ challenged some big notions — sometimes not always good. It’s so hard to tell a good story. To make a good movie really is hard, and sometimes that’s enough. But in this case, and in a few cases when it’s part of something bigger — the idea that there are 66 million girls who are out of school, each with a story like Malala’s. When you feel the loss and the potential of girls who are not getting an education, if you can feel that, then you can be inspired by what happens when a girl does get educated. You feel there’s a tremendous sense of opportunity with people seeing this movie. Malala and I always like to say ‘What if it’s more than a movie? What if it’s also a movement? What if young girls say to their mothers and fathers, I want to go to this movie. I want to be part of this thing. I want to help the Malala Fund!’
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What do you hope that audiences take away from seeing this?
DG: I hesitate because I hate to tell people what to feel. I’ve worked on this movie and held it so tight, and [then] you give it away. It’s like birthing a child now, and the child is going off to college. The movie is going to live on its own and people are going to interpret it the way they want to interpret it. I don’t like to say too much. I hope they feel something and that there’s something valuable in the telling of her story.
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RELISH MAGAZINE For ages, pepitas have played a prominent role in Mexican cooking, finding their way into their rich moles and sauces. We find them to be perfect in everything from salads to brittle. Pepitas are the rich inner kernel that lies within the crunchy outer coating of the whole pumpkin seed. These small greenish seeds are velvety and rich and softer than other nuts. Look for them in packages next to the nuts in the supermarket or in a Mexican market. For this salad, use cubed pumpkin or butternut squash. Add shrimp, beef or chicken to make this a hearty main dish.
Warm Pumpkin Salad with Bacon and Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin ingredients:
n 12 ounces pumpkin, butternut or other winter squash, peeled and cubed n 1½ tablespoons olive oil n 1 teaspoon salt
Vinaigrette ingredients:
n ¼ cup maple syrup n 3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar n 1⁄3 cup extra-virgin olive oil n½ teaspoon salt n¼ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
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n 6 ounces baby arugula n 4 slices (¼ pound) bacon, cooked and crumbled n ½ cup pepitas (shelled pumpkin seeds), toasted n 3 ounces pecorino Romano cheese, shaved with a vegetable peeler Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. To prepare pumpkin, toss pumpkin with olive oil and salt. Place on a foil-lined baking sheet and roast 15 to 25 minutes, until tender. Set aside.
To prepare vinaigrette, combine maple syrup and vinegar in a small saucepan and bring to boil over medium heat. Remove from heat and whisk in olive oil. Stir in salt and pepper. (Makes about 1 cup. Leftovers can be refrigerated in a covered container up to a week.) To prepare salad, combine arugula with about ¼ cup vinaigrette. Toss well. Top with roasted pumpkin, bacon, pepitas and cheese. Serves 4. — Recipe by Naa Ako-Adj; Photo by Mark Boughton/ styling by Teresa Blackburn.
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Sarah Matathia, M.D.: Kraft Fellow working in Family Medicine at DotHouse Health By PARTNERS HEALTHCARE How does a doctor or nurse become a leading doctor or nurse? A successful medical career requires a number of components, including a professional environment that fosters and encourages growth and development. Partners HealthCare aims to provide such an environment for its employees, as they represent both the current and the future health care workforce. The Kraft Center for Community Health Leadership is one way Partners is providing such an environment through its active investment in the career development of young physicians and nurses committed to community health. These mission-driven young physicians and nurses seek to improve the health and well-being of our communities. Established in 2011 by a generous gift from the Kraft Family to Partners HealthCare, and working in close collaboration with the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, the Kraft Center for Community Health Leadership anchors primary care clinicians in community health
centers throughout the area, as well as strengthening their relationship to academic medicine. To date, a total of 37 participants (in either the Fellowship or Practitioner programs) have completed their training. Sarah Matathia, M.D., is currently participating in the Kraft Fellowship as she works in the department of Family Medicine at DotHouse Health. After completing her residency in San Francisco, Sarah moved back to the east coast to be closer to family while continuing to practice family medicine. During her first year back, Sarah began working at Dorchester House and quickly affirmed her interest and commitment to community health. “Providing care for patients involves much more than a routine examination. It’s important as a provider to understand all of the factors in a person’s health, especially the social determinants of health,” says Sarah. Dorchester House is a very busy place and provides comprehensive resources to its patients. Sarah is always working to help ensure that her patients know how to access all of the programs and social services Dorchester House has to offer. It
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was this goal that drove Sarah to learn about the Kraft Fellowship, as it would deepen her understanding of public health and knowledge of the community’s health priorities, develop her leadership skills, and provide the time required to carry out these commitments. As a Kraft Fellow, Sarah is not only able to help her patients more, but also do two very important things for her own career: 1. She is able to pursue a master’s degree in public health furthering her education and 2. She is able to carve out time in her schedule to work on a project that addresses a particular need of her patients. For her project, Sarah has started a “Perinatal Collaborative” comprised of the various departments and supportive services that provide care to pregnant women and young children including Family Medicine, Women’s Health, Pediatrics, WIC, Case Management, Nutrition and Behavioral Health. Together, the group strives both to improve coordination and collaboration between the various departments as well as to come up with innovative ways of addressing commonly seen health problems such as pediatric obesity and
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Pictured here is Sarah Matathia, M.D. and Kraft Fellow working at DotHouse Health. postpartum depression.“Programs like the Kraft Fellowship are really important,” says Sarah. “I am grateful to have the opportunity to do this work; it makes my job more rewarding when I feel more of my patients’ various needs are being met.” Sarah and her work are excellent examples of the impact programs like the Kraft Fellowship and related Kraft Practitioner programs can have on both providers and patients. “Sarah is doing fantastic work. The Kraft experience is an important one for Sarah and her peers because it provides the opportunity to understand patients’ lives beyond their immediate medical problems, so that
the approach to their care and to overall health promotion are more comprehensive, says Derri Shtasel, MD, MPH, Executive Director of the Kraft Center for Community Health Leadership. “Ultimately, our goal is to develop community health career paths and support this next generation of community health leaders.” “In collaboration with the Mass. League of Community Health Centers, Partners is pleased to continue to support the Kraft Center and physicians like Sarah, as they provide vital services both to their patients and the larger community,” says Matt Fishman, Vice President for Partners Community Health. “Supporting this kind of work is vital to the health and well being of our communities and the future of our health care workforce.”
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Steppingstone prepares Boston students for college success By STEPPINGSTONE ACADEMY Since his elementary school days, Nicholas Correia has seen education as a pathway to future success. A diligent and determined student, his hard work paid off when he was admitted to The Steppingstone Academy during his fifth-grade year. “When that letter came, I was so happy,” he recalls. Since 1990, Steppingstone has prepared motivated students like Nicholas to succeed at top independent and public exam schools as a pathway to college. Over a 14month period, Nicholas attended Steppingstone classes twice weekly during the school year and for six weeks in the summer. After working with his Steppingstone Advisor to identify independent schools that would be a good fit, he was admitted to Brimmer and May School, an independent school in Chestnut Hill. Now a junior at Brimmer and May, Nicholas is thriving both in and out of the classroom. He plays soccer, starred in last year’s musical, gives tours to prospective students, and sings in the chamber choir. He was also selected to participate in the rigorous STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) diploma program, which requires him to complete advanced coursework, intensive field trips, and lab activities.
He says he might never have pursued many of these opportunities without Steppingstone, noting, “I’ve grown out of my shell. Steppingstone prepared me to try new things and take risks.” Nicholas spent last summer working as a Teaching Assistant for Steppingstone and says he chose to do so because, “I remember the TAs being a positive role model for me. I want to be that positive role model for younger Scholars. Steppingstone will make a difference in all of our lives and will help us go to college.” As Nicholas prepares to apply to college, he and his family are extremely grateful for the resources Steppingstone provides, including SAT preparation classes, overnight college tours, essay and application help, and financial aid counseling. “My parents know that Steppingstone will help me through the application process, which is the biggest barrier for a lot of first-generation students,” he says. Of the Steppingstone Scholars who complete the program, 99% graduate from high school, more than 90% enroll in a four-year college, and 80% graduate from a four-year college within six years. Steppingstone accepts applications from motivated Boston students in grades four and five. Applications are due by January 6, 2016. For more information, call (617) 423-6300 or visit www. tsf.org/apply.
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Meet Mark Vialva, music teacher at The Park School in Brookline By THE PARK SCHOOL Students often hear that grit and resilience are the keys to being a successful student. The newest member of The Park School’s music faculty, Mark Vialva, is a example of these character traits. Mark was born and raised in Connecticut. His family was musical, but his path to music was solely based on his ears: he didn’t see the point in learning how to read music. He admits he didn’t like school, but he absolutely loved everything about music. Based on support and encouragement from his family he made it through high school and in his senior year he enlisted in the Marine Corps with the hope of auditioning for the Marine Corps Band. He signed a four-year contract and despite his enormous talent, he didn’t make the band was because he couldn’t read music. He had no choice but to put down his beloved trumpet and pick up a gun. He went through boot camp in South Carolina and was then stationed in North Carolina to serve as an Artillery Cannoneer Section Chief. Trained to carry out multiple missions, Mark deployed to Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Djibouti, France, Spain, Sicily, and Turkey from 2004-08. That experience made him realize how
(LEFT) PHOTO COURTESY MARK VIALVA; (ABOVE) TONY RINALDO PHOTOGRAPHY; (BELOW) KATE LAPINE
Left: Mark Vialva during his tenure as Arillery Cannoneer Section Chief in the Marine Corps; Above: Students at The Park School learning to play the recorder; Below: Mark Vialva plays trumpet with The Park School Jazz Band.
important it is — at some point — to prepare for the real world. “I made lifelong friendships in the military and experienced a lot at a young age, which helped me get my act together,” recalls Mark. But he knew his passion for music would not be entirely realized unless he had a formal music education. He entered Berklee College of Music in 2010, received an Outstanding Scholar Award for outstanding academic accomplishments in 2011, and graduated in 2013. He did some
observation work at Park in 2010, returned as a student teacher from January – March 2013, was a substitute teacher in the fall of 2013, and joined the faculty in September 2014. Even though Mark didn’t realize his dream of playing in the Marine Corps Band, he knew he wanted a career in music. His early resistance to school in general is what led Mark to realize he had a role to play in music education.
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A commitment to diversity By TAHIRA WILSONGUILLERMO, DIRECTOR OF INCLUSION AND MULTICULTURAL PRACTICE What impact can an independent elementary school have on one’s later life? My 22 years at Shady Hill School (SHS) have convinced me that these years are precious. One of the hallmarks of an independent-school education is the focus on the individual child and helping children blossom. Engagement, confidence, perseverance, ethical thinking, and mindfulness: for 100 years, Shady Hill has instilled these lifelong traits, believing that it is important for children to internalize them early on. Our graduates of color tell me again and again how their Shady Hill experience set them on a richly rewarding life journey. Our Head of School, Mark Stanek, recently spoke with SHS alum and Boston Art Commission Board member Ekua Holmes, who entered here in the fourth grade. “I consider my Shady Hill education to be one of the pillars of my life. Teachers taught to the student rather that expecting the student to fit into a preconceived ideal. I felt so supported there that I know
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Artist Ekua Holmes, Shady Hill School Class of 1970. it helped me to get my direction and to blossom a lot faster.” Shady Hill is an independent elementary school with about 500 students in pre-kindergarten (age 4) through eighth grade. The school is committed to stewarding a rich, multicultural curriculum and a diverse, inclusive community. As Director of Inclusion and Multicultural Practice, I help shape SHS’s social justice throughlines and ongoing dialogue. I am energized by the way we work to ensure that each student succeeds
here at Shady Hill. So what does this inclusion and multicultural practice look like? Shady Hill enrolled its first students of color in the 1930’s and has worked unceasingly to increase the diversity of its student body. Diversity is a pillar of the School’s Strategic Plan—we regularly assess school policies and practices related to the many facets of diversity, and the community regularly engages in dialog about issues of race and class. We have several outreach programs in place to hire more faculty of color. We strive to increase the number of faculty of color to mirror the make-up of our student body, where 34% self-identify as students of color. Our teachers pursue professional development focused on cultivating a diverse community. Each year, we send faculty to the People of Color Conference and students and faculty to the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network conference, among others. Our affinity groups for adoptive families, GLBT families, and students and families of color are a very active part of our community. Diversity at Shady Hill, a decades-old parent group, provides advocacy and guidance aligned with our diversity and multicultural goals. The fact that two of the co-chairs
Shady Hill enrolled its first students of color in the 1930’s and has worked unceasingly to increase the diversity of its student body. Diversity is a pillar of the School’s Strategic Plan — we regularly assess school policies and practices related to the many facets of diversity, and the community regularly engages in dialog about issues of race and class. We have several outreach programs in place to hire more faculty of color. We strive to increase the number of faculty of color to mirror the make-up of our student body, where 34% self-identify as students of color.”
— Tahira Wilson-Guillermo are alumni of color speaks to how generations of families return to Shady Hill and enrich the community by sharing their perspectives in meaningful ways. As a tuition-charging institution, we are committed to making our program accessible to families representing a wide range of financial circumstances. Our $2.1 million financial-aid program ensures this access. Ekua Holmes, reflecting on her years at Shady Hill, highlighted key features that were true when the school began in 1915, that were true when she was enrolled here in the 1970’s, and are still true today. “I loved working with my teachers because they always answered my questions with questions and made me think about what I was doing rather than telling me what
I should be doing. They also found ways to make me shine. Having places where I could shine helped me find my place at Shady Hill and in life. Shady Hill touched me in so many ways. For me it was a world of dreams and aspirations.” Is Shady Hill right for your child? Come find out. Our Open Houses (Lower School, Sunday October 25 and Middle School, Tuesday November 10) will give you an overview of our program and community. To glimpse the school in action, schedule a parent visit with the Admission Office. These are offered weekdays from October to January.
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Ivan Mejia By THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL During the summer after his sophomore year at The Roxbury Latin School, Ivan Mejia of Roxbury took a chance and traveled to Cadiz, Spain, with 15 of his classmates to take part in the school-sponsored, month-long immersion trip. A culminating experience open to all boys who have completed their second or third year of Spanish, the immersion trip proved to be a transformative experience for Ivan. “I traveled halfway around the world and lived with a family whom I had never met before“ Ivan recalls. “I matured a lot during my time in Spain and grew even closer to my classmates.” This opportunity was just one of the many that Ivan has taken advantage of while at Roxbury Latin, a small school of 300 boys located in West Roxbury (an easy 10-minute commute from Forest Hills). Roxbury Latin’s mission, as stated by its founder, John Eliot, in 1645, is “to fit boys for service in church and commonwealth” or as the school defines today, “to lead and serve.” Even though Roxbury Latin does not describe itself as a college preparatory school, 100% of its graduates go on to impressive colleges, due to a rigorous academic program that challenges boys to think deeply
about the material they are studying and to use that knowledge to make a difference in this world. Beyond the classroom, boys get involved in a number of extracurricular activities, including sports, music, drama, community service, public speaking, debate, Model United Nations, and student publications. Whether in the classroom or on the playing fields, boys strive for excellence in all that they do, and are encouraged, supported, and nurtured by an advisor—each boy has an adult in the community with whom he meets weekly—and the many other adults (teachers, coaches, extracurricular advisors) that work with a boy in this intimate community. In fact, Ivan credits the school’s intimacy with helping him transition to Roxbury Latin from Nativity Preparatory School (a tuition free, Jesuit middle school for boys located in Jamaica Plain) during his first year. “My teachers encouraged me to ask for help,” notes Ivan, “and slowly I gained the confidence I needed to be successful in many areas of school life.” Since his arrival in 9th grade, Ivan has challenged himself with a demanding course load, which this year includes AP Statistics and AP Spanish. AP Statistics is his favorite course because, he notes, “It is exciting to see the connection between the material that we are studying and the real world.”
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Ivan Mejia Ivan has also enjoyed being a part of numerous teams and extracurricular activities at Roxbury Latin. He has made a strong contribution to the basketball program during his three years at the school, serving as a captain of his junior varsity basketball team last winter and aiming to make a meaningful contribution to the varsity team this winter. In addition, as a discus and javelin thrower for the varsity track and field team (which won the New England Class
C hampionship for the fifth straight year this past spring), Ivan is poised to have success in his fourth and final season with the team. Ivan admits that “making mistakes” either in academics or athletics has been critical to his success at Roxbury Latin. “It doesn’t matter that you make mistakes. What matters is what you do after you make those mistakes,” he reflects. In Ivan’s case, he feels that the mistakes he has made at Roxbury Latin drive
him to take advantage of every opportunity that comes his way. That is why he took a chance and traveled to Spain for the immersion trip, tried new sports (football and track and field), and became involved with community service opportunities at Roxbury Latin, such as Habitat for Humanity (building houses for those in need) and Connected Living (teaching senior citizens basic computer skills). Risking new endeavors, Ivan believes that he has become a better student, athlete, leader, and, most importantly, a better person. Ivan sees learning from his mistakes as fundamental to the learning environment at Roxbury Latin, an admission that would make the founder, John Eliot, proud. Ivan notes, “My teachers at Roxbury Latin constantly remind me that they care most of all about what kind of a person I am.” Ivan’s performance in his classes and in a broad array of extracurricular activities has been an important part of his education at Roxbury Latin, but it is the molding of Ivan as a person for which he is most thankful and will long remember after he graduates next June. Ivan is one of 300 motivated, reflective, selfless, talented boys who make Roxbury Latin a distinctive community. They come from all over Boston to prepare for the opportunities and challenges of life in and out of the classroom. If you would like to learn more about Roxbury Latin, please visit their website (www.roxburylatin. org), email the admission office at admission@roxburylatin.org, or call the office at 617.477.6317.
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By THE WINSOR SCHOOL “Just think about the different cultures, languages and neighborhoods of our city,” reflects Julian Braxton, director of community and multicultural affairs at the Winsor School in Boston, a leading independent school for academically promising girls in grades 5-12. “In many ways, we don’t have to go far for a global experience.” In its mission of preparing girls to “contribute to the world,” Winsor opens girls’ eyes to the world in countless ways. Students build global competencies at every level of the curriculum, including in cutting-edge nonwestern courses. Learning opportunities extend into many aspects of school life, from global speaker assemblies to lunchtime cultural celebrations to international trips and exchanges that take girls as far away as China, Peru and India. “In a world that is so global, where the possibilities for connection are endless, being grounded is more important than ever,” reflected one Winsor alumna, speaking at a celebration of the 21st-century building and learning plans unfolding at the school. “One must be grounded to be groundbreaking.” Winsor alumnae have been breaking new ground in their fields for more than a century. Today, Winsor continues to build on a tradition of forward thinking with a
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Students at the Winsor School. vision of providing girls with an education second to none in the world. In spring 2015, Winsor’s extraordinary new centers for the performing arts and for athletics and wellness opened on campus. The transformative building project has doubled the school’s educational space, and also includes a state-of-the-art innovation lab and new classrooms. Every space focuses on skills that promising girls will need to thrive in the future. T he campus plans will anchor Winsor in its dynamic
neighborhood, the Longwood medical area of Boston. Winsor draws its 450 students from the city and more than 50 surrounding communities. The school strives to be “a place where everyone feels welcome,” Mr. Braxton adds. Affinity groups are a powerful way in which the school lives out its ideals of welcome and support for girls from diverse backgrounds. Groups include SISTERS, short for Sharing Individual Stories Through Everyone’s RootS, a support system for girls of
African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Cape Verdean, and Latina descent, and AsIAm, a group for students of Asian descent. “The best part,” explains one Winsor student, “is knowing that everyone is coming into the group with an open attitude and a willingness to understand each other. We bond with one another and share parts of ourselves and honestly become each other’s sisters.” From the start, “we try to teach girls the importance of actively and positively defining yourself,” Mr. Braxton adds. Each fall, the school’s Parent Network for Diversity also sponsors a “welcome” event, helping girls and families feel at home at Winsor. At Winsor, “what matters is what kind of women our students will become and that their futures are open to boundless possibilities,” explains Rachel Friis Stettler, Winsor’s head of school. Winsor’s lessons—and friendships—stay with girls for their lifetimes. The college choices of Winsor graduates reflect the strength of the school and its students. In the last five years, the colleges attracting the largest number of Winsor alumnae were Harvard, BC, Yale, MIT, UPenn, Wesleyan, Georgetown, George Washington, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth and Tufts. While college is in girls’ immediate futures, Winsor truly prepares them for life. “We’re excited to share why Winsor is such a special place,” says Pamela Parks McLaurin, director of admission and financial aid and a Winsor graduate herself. When she
The best part is knowing that everyone is coming into the group with an open attitude and a willingness to understand each other. We bond with one another and share parts of ourselves and honestly become each other’s sisters.” — Winsor student
talks to girls, she weaves a simple invitation into her conversations: “Challenge yourself. Enjoy yourself. Be yourself.” The admission team looks carefully at every girl who applies, and seeks girls who will thrive here. Intellectual curiosity, academic ability, motivation, a generous spirit and a respect for difference are all part of what Winsor seeks. On November 6, 2015, the school’s annual Admission Open House will offer interested families a firsthand glimpse of Winsor girls and teachers in action on a typical day. To learn more, please call the Admission Office at 617 735-9503 or visit www.winsor.edu.
Winsor will open her eyes. On Nov. 6, we’ll open our classrooms as well. Join us and explore all that Winsor means to academically promising girls in grades 5-12. Come for a half hour or the whole morning and share in a typical day. See how every Winsor day in essence is an invitation to discovery. Visit live classes. Browse curricular displays. Meet and talk with teachers, students and parents. Plus enjoy an inside look at our newly opened centers for arts, athletics, and wellness and new state-ofthe-art classrooms. No RSVP is necessary. To learn more, call 617 735-9503 or visit us online.
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Do you understand? A question I pondered after reading through a report released by the National Center for Education Statistics. The report, Suspension, Expulsion, and Achievement of English Learner Students in Six Oregon Districts, presents a snapshot of data gathered in 2011-2012. The report releases disparate statistics regarding academic and behavioral outcomes of English Language Learners (ELL) students. As a professor who has conducted research on interventions for suspended youth, I have already desensitized myself to the narrative of black and brown youth in the public education system. I am familiar with black youth suspension rates tripled that of white youth suspensions. The variation of black and brown youth presence in school districts across the United States presents similar statistics for brown youth, Native American, Hispanic and Southern Asian/Pacific Islanders (please know they are more diverse than this). They share the same fate. Somehow, we continue to write a story that reflects both our lack of understanding and our lack of action. How many of you have heard someone yell, “DO YOU UNDERSTAND?” I use caps here to exemplify the anger and frustration experienced by the speaker. As a professor, I may have yelled these words in my head when I have encountered students who refuse to read and study the material. As a mother, I
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“Park students are lucky to have music education, unlike many public schools which continually suffer from a lack of funding,” says Mark. He teaches Grades II, VI, and VII, as well as the School’s jazz band. Improvisation is important to him, and he feels that it gives the kids a real creative outlet within a structured environment. He incorporates improvisation to Grades II and VI in different ways like using body percussion and African drums. With the Grade VIII and IX jazz band he does more focused melodic improvisation work, where students convey feelings through their instruments and play their own ideas on the fly, but within the confines of a specific chord. “Adults and kids often listen to music and don’t know what is happening aside from
have definitely yelled these words, frustrated by my children’s’ inability to follow directions. More deeply, these words express my frustrations and, without minimizing the authentic voice of black and brown youth, their frustration. The perplexed and challenged public school system continues to wreak psychological violence on young people who do not readily accept the larger dominant white middle class norm. Psychological violence occurs through the isolation, verbal degradation and treatment black and brown youth experience. These experiences in the public school system diminish their sense of identity and self-worth. ELLs are brown youth, where roughly 86% represent individuals who enter the public school system speaking Spanish. The changing demographics in the United States reveal there are many children living here who are immigrants and know very little English. In navigating the United States public school system, these children attempt to learn a new language, adapt to new social and cultural norms, and manage psychosocial transitions from childhood to adolescence. Public schools continue to be contentious social spaces in the United States, confounded with bullying, peer pressure, accountability standards, etc. The combination of these factors yields stress and frustration for youth. Is the public school system punishing these students for their combined frustration? According to the National Center for Education Statistics See LEARNERS, page B11 understanding the lyrics,” explains Mark. “A proper music education should equip a student to understand and be able to identify a few things in a song. For example, what time signature a song is in, what key a song is in, what genre a song may fit into or even the historical context of a song.” Mark is currently playing trumpet with a “yet to be named” Boston band that plays jazz, fusion, neo soul, and some blues. They’ve booked some gigs at Ester restaurant in Dorchester in the upcoming months. He also continues to perform at Berklee and is booked at several Simmons College events. Mark is an enthusiastic ambassador for music education, because it offers an outlet for self-creativity and expression. He loves the sense of community he has found and says he’s never met any student at Park, or any other school for that matter, who didn’t love music.
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continued from page B10 report, ELLs have higher rates of suspension in middle and high school than non-English learners do in Oregon schools. A majority of these suspensions were due to aggressive behavior, insubordination, and disruption. Now, let us take a brief pause and ask ourselves, “What have we historically done in this country when our identity or selfworth is in danger?” We act out and we engage in aggressive and disruptive behavior. If this is the behavior of many adults, we can imagine what young people experience when they perceive these threats, their isolation, when implicit and explicit language counters and devalues their cultural heritage. They act out. Is the public school system fostering a pipeline of disadvantage? ELLs missed more days from school and had lower
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The perplexed and challenged public school system continues to wreak psychological violence on young people who do not readily accept the larger dominant white middle class norm. ” — Dawn X. Henderson
rates of achievement on statewide assessments in reading and math. It does not take a rocket scientist to draw the conclusion, when students are absent from school they miss important academic concepts and will be behind when they return to school. When youth are behind in school, accompanied by language barriers, they experience heightened levels of stress and anxiety. ELLs may seek to lower their sense of anxiety through disengagement, they are no longer engaged in the public school experience and begin to be absent from the learning environment. ELLs tend to
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have higher high school dropout rates than non-English learners. “DO YOU UNDERSTAND” is a cry from ELLs, and more broadly black and brown youth. The United States and school districts have the power
to redirect action and develop practices needed to reduce arbitrary suspensions for school violations such as excessive noise, insubordination, and disruption. Using positive behavior intervention models, integrated with culturally appropriate and bilingual education can improve academic attainment of ELLs and increase their civic engagement. By suspending these students, the United States public education system reduces opportunities among ELLs and their ability to engage in the academic pipeline. Diminishing opportunities for educational engagement will only continue
to foster frustration and anger and reduce the responsibility of the public school system and increase the responsibility of another — the criminal justice system. Dawn X. Henderson, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State University and a member of Division 27 (Society for Community Research and Action) of the American Psychological Association. Her research focuses on community and school-based alternatives for suspended youth. Any comments or feedback can be sent to dawnxhen@gmail.com.
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data. [Data collection helps] to see where there are problems, and also to acknowledge those departments that are getting it right.” A bill introduced by Dorcena Forry and Rushing addresses traffic stop data in particular; a second bill by Dorcena Forry addresses pedestrian stops; and Chang-Diaz’s is a comprehensive police-civilian encounter bill that covers both traffic and pedestrian stops. In 2000, the Massachusetts legislature passed a special law requiring state and local police to collect traffic stop data for a 27month period in order to identify and address race and gender bias. An ACLU fact sheet notes that subsequent analysis of this data made it clear that racial disparities were common, showing that non-white motorists were searched or cited at disproportionate rates. No further law was enacted when the study period ended, so while State Police continue to collect data, municipalities face no requirement to do so. “While local police departments seek to embrace policies to increase transparency about their actions, information about police-civilian interactions for Massachusetts, as a whole, is scarce and incomplete,” the three bill sponsors told Judiciary Committee members in a joint testimony statement, distributed at Tuesday’s State House hearing. The proposed legislation makes data collection a consistent requirement statewide. Anytime an individual is “stopped, frisked, or searched” by a law enforcement officer, specific information would have be recorded, including the name and badge number of the officer; the date, time, location and the reason for the stop; the number of occupants of the vehicle, for traffic stops; the race, ethnicity, gender and approximate age of the driver and/or anyone searched during the stop; whether the driver or any person searched has limited English proficiency; whether a frisk or search was instigated; whether any contraband was found or materials seized; and whether the result was a warning, citation, arrest or no action. If there is no arrest or citation, officers must provide a receipt to the stopped person at the conclusion of the stop. “This receipt element is designed both to cultivate community trust in the department and to enable the individual to document a stop if he or she feels it was made on a discriminatory basis,”
the legislators’ statement reads. Law enforcement departments would be required to review all this data at least quarterly. The Secretary of Public Safety and Security would compile the data into annual reports. Among those who turned out for the hearing was Donnell Wright, 51, of Springfield, who has been pulled over for “driving while black” some 15 times, he estimates. Officers have asked him if he has drugs or weapons in the car, pulled him out of the car, and questioned his passengers. When he asks why he’s been stopped, the typical answer is simply “License and registration — We’ll tell you afterwards,” he said, speaking to the Banner outside the hearing room. “It’s a real phenomenon. And it’s putting a wedge between the police and the community,” he added. “That’s one of the reasons people don’t talk [to police] when there’s a crime.”
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The legislators, in their testimony, noted that even in the absence of a legal mandate, the Massachusetts State Police does practice comprehensive data collection during all traffic stops and regular audits and analysis of the data, along with racial profiling prevention training and policies. The Boston Police Department also voluntarily collects data on police-pedestrian encounters, the legislators noted. In 2014, under pressure from the ACLU, BPD released several years’ data on pedestrian stops — Field Interrogation, Observation, Frisk, and Search reports, known as FIO or FIOFS reports — to a university researcher. The ACLU produced a report on the researcher’s findings. Its 2014 “Black, Brown and Targeted” report reveals that blacks, who represent less than 25 percent of the city’s population, accounted for 63 percent of FIOs during the 2007-2010 period, and that the vast majority of stops did not result arrest or in seizure of contraband or a weapon. The report concludes that Boston had “a pattern of racially targeted, police-civilian encounters and a practice of failing to ensure that stops and frisks were justified.” While police representatives at the time responded that these results reflected old data, and policing has since changed, BPD has not yet complied with the Banner’s Freedom of Information Act request filed a year ago to obtain FIO data from 2010 through late 2014. In August, the ACLU of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against BPD to release FIO data from 2011 on.
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Sealed proposals submitted on a form furnished by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance (DCAMM) and clearly identified as a bid, endorsed with the name and address of the bidder, the project and contract number, will be received at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108, no later than the date and time specified and will forthwith be publicly opened and read aloud. Sub-Bids at 12:00 Noon:
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Upgrade of Existing Elevators, William A. Hinton Lab Tower Jamaica Plain, MA And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Miscellaneous & Ornamental Iron, Elevators, HVAC, and Electrical. E.C.C: $2,621,285 This project is scheduled for 180 calendar days to substantial completion and in general includes: The project consists of assessment of existing building elevators, priority repairs deemed necessary to ensure reliable operation during construction assumption of service contract for project duration. Rehabilitation of cabs, machines and controls. Reconfiguration of main building entry including exterior steps, walkways and parking, also interior vestibule and security screening checkpoint. Also includes work to enhance building accessibilty. The pre-bid informational meeting will be held on Wednesday, October, 21, 2015 @ 10:00 AM at the site: Hinton Lab, 305 South Street. Meet in main lobby. Minimum rates of wages to be paid on the project have been determined by the Commissioner of the Division of Occupational Safety under the provisions of Sections 26 and 27, Chapter 149 of the General Laws. Wage rates are listed in the contract form portion of specification book. Each general bid and sub-bid proposal must be secured by an accompanying deposit of 5% of the total bid amount, including all alternates, in the form of a bid bond, in cash, a certified, treasurer’s, or cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company made payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The bidding documents may be examined at the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance Bid Room, One Ashburton Place, 1st Floor, Room 107, Boston, MA 02108 Tel (617) 727-4003, bidroom.dcamm@state. ma.us. Copies may be obtained by depositing a company check, treasurer’s check, cashier’s check, bank check or money order in the sum of $100.00 payable to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. No personal checks or cash will be accepted as deposits. Refunds will be made to those returning the documents in satisfactory condition on or before December 4, 2015 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth. WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other types of pick-up and delivery services are the agents of the bidder and the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance assumes no responsibility for delivery or receipt of the documents. Bidders are encouraged to take advantage of a rotating credit plans and specifications deposit program initiated by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance to encourage the easy accessibility of documents to contractors.
LEGAL when accompanied by a list, with contact information, of a minimum of three successful projects within the last 5 years of restoration work on National Register Listed Buildings. SUBTRADES: MASONRY WATERPROOFING, DAMPROOFING & SEALANTS ROOFING & FLASHING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS will be available after twelve noon, 2 October 2015, by emailed request to the Architects, Donham & Sweeney, attn: Jeff Shaw, jshaw@donhamandsweeney.com, to all interested parties at no cost. Or at the office of the Architects, Donham & Sweeney Inc., 68 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, 02111, to all interested parties who present a $25.00 check payable to St. Stephen’s Church for each set. Plans and specification will be mailed, if requested, and upon receipt of a separate non-refundable check for $10.00 payable to Donham & Sweeney –Architects. Plans and specifications must be returned in good condition within thirty days of the bid opening in order for the bidder to have the check returned. A Labor and Material Payment Bond and a Performance Bond from the successful bidder, each in the amount of 100% of the contract price, will be required. All bonds must be issued by a surety company qualified to do business within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and satisfactory to the Awarding Authority.
Invitation for Bids for the partial exterior restoration of the church. St. Stephen’s Memorial Church acting through its Vestry, hereinafter referred to as the Awarding Authority, hereby invites sealed bids for the above-entitled project in accordance with plans and specifications prepared by Donham & Sweeney Inc.-Architects. Bids shall be on a form supplied by the Architect, shall be clearly identified as a bid, and signed by the bidder. All bids for this project are subject to all applicable provisions of law and shall be in accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract documents entitled: ST. STEPHEN’S MEMORIAL CHURCH PARTIAL EXTERIOR RESTORATION. SCOPE OF WORK includes Restoration Contracting. The Church is listed in the State and National Register of Historic Places; all work must comply with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties, and the project is being partially funded with a grant from the Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund, Massachusetts Historical Commission. State law prohibits discrimination. Awarding of this contract is subject to Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity guidelines. TIME AND PLACE FOR FILING BIDS: ALL BIDS shall be filed via email and in duplicate hard copy at the Architect’s office: Donham & Sweeney-Architects, 68 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA, 02111 Attn: Jeff Shaw, jshaw@donhamandsweeney.com; before twelve noon on 23 October 2015. The Awarding Authority reserves the right to waive any informalities in or to reject any and all bids if it be in their interest to do so. General bids will be valid only
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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 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.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY SOLICITATION FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES FEDERALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is soliciting design and engineering services for construction and quality engineering, consultation and assistance on a task order basis. The Authority proposes to use both Federal and State funds for these contracts. The amount of $25,000,000, with $5,000,000 available for each of the five consultants selected, has been budgeted for this project. Services will include advice to and consultation with the Authority’s Design and Construction Directorate on matters of design, construction and quality engineering on an as-needed basis. Services may include, but not be limited to: Planning, Feasibility Surveys/Analyses; Multidisciplined Engineering (i.e. Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Structural, etc.); Construction Engineering; Contract Management Assistance; Scheduling; Quality Control/Quality Assurance; Construction Systems and Methods; Construction Planning; Construction Staging and Constructability; Construction Innovations; Field Safety; Construction Training; Computer Management Applications; Environmental Assistance; Public Information; and Materials Testing. This contract will be Federally Funded. The DBE Participation Goal for this contract will be 12%. 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_solic itations/ 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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In the matter of: Jacob Scott Respondent (Person to be Protected/Minor) Of: Dorchester, MA CITATION GIVING NOTICE OF PETITION FOR APPOINTMENT OF CONSERVATOR OR OTHER PROTECTIVE ORDER PURSUANT TO G.L c. 190B, §5-304 & §5-405 To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Clyde Tyler of West Roxbury, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that Jacob Scott is in need of a Conservator or other protective order and requesting that Carol Barton, Esq. of Worcester, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Conservator to serve Without Surety on the bond. The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondent is disabled, that a protective order or appointment of a Conservator is necessary, and that the proposed conservator is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance at this court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 10/29/2015. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date.
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Citation on Petition for Order of Complete Settlement of Estate Estate of Richard Stewart White, Jr. Also known as: Richard S. White, Jr. Date of Death: 11/07/2013 To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Richardeene Smith of Medford, MA and Doria White of Boston, MA requesting that an Order of Complete Settlement of the estate issue including to approve an accounting and other such relief as may be requested in the Petition. For the First and Final Account. 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 10/22/2015. 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 date, action may be taken without further notice to you. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: September 16, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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Docket No. SU15P2274EA Estate of Xiong Zhenmin Also Known As Zhenmin Xiong Date of Death March 3, 2015
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An affordable condominium townhouse is being resold to a qualifying buyer for $221,329. The unit includes living/dining area with open kitchen, 2 very good size bedrooms and 1½ baths. It is close to schools, Needham Center and public transportation. Interested buyers must meet income limits as follows: $48,800 (1 person), $55,800 (2 persons), $62,750 (3 persons) and $69,700 (4 persons). Households cannot have more than $75,000 in assets. All interested purchasers must submit an application no later than 4:00 PM on October 30, 2015 to: Needham Housing Authority (NHA) 29 Captain Robert Cook Drive Needham, MA 02494 Applications are available at the NHA office and Needham’s Planning and Community Development Dept. at 500 Dedham Avenue. Applications are also available through the realtor, Weilie Wen, at 617-710-1568 (weiliewen@yahoo.com)who should be contacted with questions and to view the unit. Questions can also be directed to Needham’s Community Housing Specialist at 781455-7550 ext. 220. Equal Housing Opportunity
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The Yarmouth Housing Authority is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Executive Director. The Director is responsible for the managment of 332 units, including 249 units of Federal Housing Choice Vouchers, 40 units of State 667 Elderly/Disabled housing, 8 units of State 689 Special Needs Housing, 35 units of MRVP Leased Housing. The Director is responsible for providing staff leadership to ensure compliance with Board Policy and State and Federal regulations.
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Non-Profit Partnership of 30 plus Organizations Seeks Executive Director Community Works (www.communityworks.com) seeks a dynamic leader with a deep connection and dedication to social justice; the skills to strategically expand & diversify our fundraising; is a self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit & the ability to facilitate the participation of activists from diverse settings and causes. Qualifications: *Demonstrated commitment to social and economic justice, experience in community organizations. *At least five years of experience in organizational & fiscal management, preferably in the non-profit sector. *Experience supervising staff, contractors & consultants. *Experience with organizational planning and development. *Experience with grant writing; fundraising from corporations, individuals and foundations. *Inclusive and facilitative leadership approach. *Ability to work with diverse groups, identify shared interests & common goals. *Strong written and oral communications skills & public speaking experience.
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Boston area regional planning agency seeks Transportation Policy Associate. The Transportation Policy Associate will work closely with municipal officials, state agencies, and advocacy groups to conduct research, evaluate alternatives, and develop policy recommendations that will advance the MetroFuture goals of MAPC. The Associate will be expected to participate in regional and state-wide working groups and coalitions, and to maintain and advance relationships with numerous stakeholders. This position will support senior transportation planning staff and project managers on a variety of studies including parking management, traffic mitigation, transit-oriented development, and bike and pedestrian planning. Duties include: Research transportation issues and develop recommendations for shaping local and state policy; Provide technical assistance to cities and towns on a wide array of transportation issues; Support MAPC’s effort to improve transportation finance. Qualifications include: Bachelor’s degree plus one year of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree, in transportation planning, urban studies, city/ regional planning, political science, public policy, environmental science, or a related field. Ideal candidate would possess 2+ years of experience in planning, policy research, or advocacy, including experience working with state or local government. Compensation and benefits are consistent with experience and based on MAPC’s personnel policy. Salary ranges from $40,000$55,000, depending on experience. MAPC employees receive an excellent state employee benefits package, including group health insurance. SEE COMPLETE JOB AD AT www.mapc.org (Jobs at MAPC) AND APPLY AT LINK SHOWN THERE. Please attach a cover letter and resume. The position is open until filled. Candidates must have legal authorization to work in the USA and a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to arrange transportation to meetings in different parts of the region. MAPC is an EOE/ AA employer MAPC takes pride in the diversity of its workforce and encourages all qualified persons to apply. Posted October 1, 2015. Barbara Wooten, HR Manager.
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Fall Open House Enjoy making art, exploring art, and seeing art being made! A performance by Sonya Clark brings an African hairstyle to life.
Top: Sonya Clark, The Hair Craft Project: Hairstylists With Sonya, 2013. Eleven inkjet photographs; 2 of 11. In collaboration with Kamala Bhagat, Dionne James Eggleston, Marsha Johnson, Chaundra King, Anita Hill Moses, Nasirah Muhammad, Jameika Pollard, Ingrid Riley, Ife Robinson, Natasha Superville, and Jamilah Williams. The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection, Frederick Brown Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, and Helen and Alice Colburn Fund. Copyright: courtesy of the artist. Photography: Naoko Wowsugi, Diego Valdez, Taylor Dabney. Right and Bottom: Copyright 2015 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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