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BRA report touts reforms

BPS makes graduation rate gains Uses multi-pronged approach to reach lagging students

Agency responds to audit findings

By YAWU MILLER

By SANDRA LARSON

Accountability and transparency are the new stated goals at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, according to a new yearin-review report issued by Mayor Martin Walsh and BRA Director Brian Golden last month.

In the past year, under new leadership and a new mayoral administration, the agency has shaken up staffing, undergone an outside performance review, implemented new policies and new technology and tightened up management of funds such as the “linkage” and “inclusionary development” fees collected from developers of large residential and commercial projects.

These changes are described in a 20-page BRA report called “Building the New Boston Redevelopment Authority” released on Jan. 21. The improvement efforts come after last July’s audit commissioned by Walsh and conducted by the accounting firm KPMG highlighted failures of management and oversight by the BRA and its sister agency, the Economic Development Industrial Corp (EDIC). These failures meant millions of dollars in affordable housing funds owed to the city by developers went uncollected, untracked and unspent. In addition, the BRA has been criticized over the years for being an

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Pedestrians shared the roadway with an MBTA bus on Warren Street Monday morning as blizzard conditions slowed the city’s rush hour to a trickle.

Snow blankets city Barely a week after Boston residents dug their way out of two feet of snow delivered by a punishing nor’easter, a second storm delivered another ten inches, a one-two punch that yielded the highest snowfall in a one-week span in the city’s recorded history.

Roxbury residents say their neighbors exhibited the best of human nature, helping each other with the often herculean

task of excavating cars, sidewalks and walkways.

“I saw community,” said City Councilor Tito Jackson, who helped several of his Grove Hall neighbors dig out. “I saw people shoveling out spaces for their elders and shoveling out fire hydrants.”

While the main avenues were cleared within hours after both storms ended, many Roxbury side streets remained covered in inches of packed snow while Department of Public Works trucks and private contractors worked to clear them.

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“We still have a lot of work to do on the side streets,” Jackson said.

Jackson praised the city workers for their efforts, and brought pizza and soda to Yard 10, the DPW station next to Marcella Park.

Not all of the community pulled together in the storm.

Many Roxbury residents, lacking space to throw their shovelfuls of snow, chose their neighbors’ sidewalks and yards, leading

The coalition works with students who have stopped attending school, and students the BPS terms “in-school drop outs,” those whose attendance or grades has them on track to miss graduation.

“People see them as the black sheep in their schools,” said Charmaine Arthur, who heads the coalition. “They think of themselves as failures.

We see them begin to believe in themselves again, and they know that other people believe in them.”

BPS has relied on networks of alternative education programs and improved

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Storms bring out best and worst in residents

By YAWU MILLER

Staff members at the Freedom House are readying 30 computer workstations for Boston Public School students struggling to earn the credits necessary to graduate.

Students visiting the Grove Hall nonprofit will be able to tap into a new BPS online learning system that will allow them to complete their coursework outside of school hours.

The workstations are part of a multi-pronged effort Freedom House has undertaken to help students at risk of dropping out of high school. Across the city, organizations like Freedom House have formed a support network BPS has tapped into as part of a yearslong effort to reduce its dropout rate.

Freedom House has been working with students at risk of not graduating since 2007 as part of the Multicultural Dropout Outreach Collaborative, a group that includes the Boston Branch of the NAACP, the Young Cape Verdean Club, Oiste? and the office of City Councilor Charles Yancey.

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CEPR study: Women, minorities pay higher effective social security rate

By PAUL KLEYMAN New America Media

Improving retirement security was among the many proposals in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union message in January.

But advocates for older Americans say Obama should ask Congress to strengthen the nation’s principal middle-class retirement support — Social Security — especially for women, minorities and low-income workers.

“He could lift or ideally call for the elimination of the Social Security cap on how much income can be taxed,” said Eric Kingson, co-author of the new book, Social Security Works: Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All. Kingson, a Syracuse University sociologist and leading analyst of Social Security policy, explained that the amount of anyone’s wages subject to the payroll tax this year is limited to the first $118,500. Anything made over and above that amount is not taxed.

Because more of the nation’s

earnings have shifted to the richest Americans and wages have stagnated for workers at the bottom, fewer earnings have been taxed to support Social Security.

“That is the major reason we have a projected shortfall in the Social Security trust fund and dramatic increases in inequality over the past 30 years,” Kingson stated.

Millionaires stop paying

by Valentine’s Day

A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) shows how today’s limit on earnings subject to the Social Security tax actually widens the U.S. wealth gap. While wealth above $118,500 goes untaxed, Social Security goes deeper in debt, leaving those on the lower rungs of the wage scale — women and minorities disproportionately — to take bear the burden of any future cuts in the program.

The CEPR report shows that increasing the amount of taxable earnings above $118,500 — or even “scrapping the cap” entirely, as Kingson and others urge — would

not only close or eliminate Social Security’s long-term funding shortage, but would end an effective tax discount that more affluent Americans now receive.

For instance, the CEPR report explains, people who make twice today’s $118,500 limit — or $237,000 per year — “pay the Social Security tax on only half of their earnings, so they no longer pay it after July 1st.”

And those who rake in over $1.2 million dollars annually finish their Social Security tax obligation by Feb. 6 — more than a week before Valentine’s Day. In effect, they pay a far smaller Social Security tax rate than those who pay through New Year’s Eve. “In other words, workers who earn $118,500 or less per year pay a higher Social Security payroll tax rate than those who make more,” say the authors of CEPR’s report, Nicole Woo, Cherrie Bucknor and John Schmitt. They produced the study based on U.S. Census Bureau’s latest (2013) data from the American Community Survey.

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Chief Actuary analyzed Democratic legislation proposed last year to phase out the income ceiling over five to 10 years. He found that the plan would reduce Social Security’s long-term shortfall by 70-80 percent.

Others in Congress have proposed lifting the cap — not ending it. For instance, recent legislation to increase the amount subject to the Social Security payroll tax to $250,000 is similar to a proposal by former U.S. Senator Barack Obama, during his 2008 presidential campaign. This plan would eliminate about 80 percent of the long-range shortfall, say CEPR’s economists.

Few Latinos, blacks earn enough to pay more

According to their analysis, just over 9 million U.S. workers (6.1 percent) earn more than the $118,500 taxable limit. (That’s not counting unearned income, such as from stocks.)

Among them are a higher percentage of whites (7.4 percent, or 7.2 million people), and 10 percent of Asian workers (1 million). That compares with only 2.4 percent of Latino taxpayers (381,000), and 2.3 percent of African Americans (383,000).

The racial divide widens, says the study, farther up the wealth ladder. If the Social Security payroll tax tapped up to $400,000, merely 0.2 percent of black and Latino taxpayers would have to pay more, compared with 2 percent of white

and Asian earners.

Men pocket the lion’s share of savings in the current system, according to the study. In 2012, 6.9 million U.S. male workers (8.8 percent) made $118,500 or better, versus 2.1 million (3.1 percent) of women.

CEPR’s economists explain that the Social Security trust fund is now large and growing, but it will peak soon at about $2.9 trillion, before being drawn down by the retirement of the huge baby boom generation. Without change, says the report, after 2033 there would only be enough in the program to pay retirees about 75 percent of promised benefits.

The report stresses that fully funding Social Security’s future obligations would cost only an additional 1 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spread over the next 75 years. At its peak in 2035, when the youngest boomers surpass age 70 — the program’s spending will amount to just over 6 percent of GDP. Kingson, also cofounder of the advocacy group Social Security Works, noted that while President Obama proposed to help Americans save more to supplement Social Security for a more secure retirement, he also should address the need for greater equity in the program itself.

“He could talk about Social Security as an instrument of justice and decency that is fully affordable as our economy continues to grow,” Kingson said.

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BPD complaint process irks Roxbury resident

By YAWU MILLER

After a police officer at a construction site screamed at Daniel Cruz in December, 2012, Cruz filed a complaint at Boston’s Area B-2 police station. Two years later, after multiple phone calls and letters to unresponsive police personnel and a drawn-out process that found in favor of the officer, Cruz wonders how the department’s complaint process could work for any civilians.

“The process is awful,” he said.

“At every stage of the way they’re trying to discourage you.”

Cruz’s ordeal began on Dec. 14, 2012 when he was driving through street construction near the corner of Washington and Guild streets.

The traffic on Washington Street was restricted to a single lane, and Cruz, heading toward Egleston Square, was stopped. The officer motioned for Cruz to proceed, Cruz says, but then jumped in front of his car and ordered him to stop.

When the officer approached the car, Cruz rolled down his window. Cruz says he asked why the officer motioned for him to move and then stopped him. The officer denied he had done so.

“He drew a breath, and screamed at the top of his lungs,” Cruz said. “He was less than two feet away from me. He almost put his face in the car. He was disrespectful, he was aggressive.”

Throughout the encounter, Cruz says, he remained calm.

“I did not offer up any verbal retorts or talk back to him,” he said.

The officer told Cruz to back his car up and pull over to the side of the street. Cruz says he was detained by the officer for eight to ten minutes, while the officer took his license and registration and continued directing traffic. When the

officer directed Cruz to leave the construction site, Cruz asked why he had been detained. The officer said, “If you have a problem, speak to my supervisor,” and motioned toward an officer, Sgt. Doris, standing near the corner of Washington and Circuit streets.

Doris’ initial response, as Cruz recalls in his complaint, was “What’s your problem?” Undeterred, Cruz filed a formal complaint with Area B-2 Captain John Davin.

“I find this entire incident very troubling, belittling and condescending,” Cruz wrote in his complaint letter. “I’m not sure why a Boston Police officer, while directing traffic, whether his signal was clear or unclear, would scream at a motorist who never raised his voice or said anything confrontational or disrespectful, pull him over, hold his license while he continued to direct traffic for some 8-9 minutes, and then tell him to go. Was this some type of punishment or condescending behavior? Is this common practice for the Boston Police Department? Verbal abuse isn’t acceptable anywhere that I’m aware of, why is it in the streets of Roxbury?”

Cruz’s complaint letter set in motion the BPD’s complaint process. Civilians who complain of police misconduct typically wait more than a year for a resolution.

And a complainant’s chances of having their charges against an officer sustained are slim: Just 9 percent of all complaints against officers filed in 2012 were sustained within a year, according to the Community Ombudsman Oversight Panel (CO-OP)’s 2013 report, the last available report on the panel’s website.

In the months after filing his report, Cruz says he made 20 follow-up calls to a mostly

unresponsive police department, including three unanswered calls to Captain Davin. While Lieutenant Sean Flaherty told Cruz the investigation into his complaint was concluded in March of 2013, neither Flaherty nor anyone else from the department would answer questions about when Cruz would receive a response to his complaint.

“I don’t understand,” Cruz wrote in an Oct. 30, 2013 letter to Boston Police Superintendent Frank Mancini, who oversees the department’s Internal Affairs Division. “I am verbally accosted by a police officer, I do what I’m supposed to do and stay calm and reserved, file a formal complaint and almost a year later the Boston Police Department

doesn’t have the courtesy or any idea when they’ll respond.”

Twelve days later, Cruz received a letter from Mancini informing him that his complaint was unsubstantiated.

“An investigation was conducted into this incident, unfortunately we were unable to prove or disprove if Sergeant John Doris and Police Officer John Quinn’s actions during the incident were meant to be disrespectful,” Mancini’s letter reads.

On Nov. 26, 2013, Cruz filed a complaint with the civilian oversight panel. On Dec. 4, 2014, the CO-OP board responded with a finding that the department’s investigation into his complaint was fair and thorough. The three-person panel, which has neither the power nor the capacity to investigate complaints, reviews police investigations of misconduct to ensure investigations are conducted in a fair and thorough manner. Of the 30 cases the panel reviewed in 2012, it found that only four were not investigated in a

manner that was fair and thorough.

“I thought the CO-OP board was an investigative unit,” Cruz said. “They’re not. It’s a joke. I thought it would be a legitimate appeal. It’s ridiculous. And it took them nearly 13 months to respond.”

The 30 cases the board investigated in 2012 were a thin slice of the 324 civilian complaints filed that year. Like many familiar with the CO-OP, Cruz thinks the Boston Police Department holds civilian complaints in low regard.

“The system doesn’t work,” he said. “I understand people’s frustration with law enforcement. From what I see, the department doesn’t take complaints seriously. Imagine if it wasn’t somebody as mature or experienced as I am dealing with this situation.”

Cruz said he was not looking for sanctions against the officer, just an acknowledgement that the officer’s behavior was unacceptable.

“An apology is all it takes,” he said. “People just want to feel like they have value.”

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Dan Cruz suffered through a two-year process before his civilian complaint against a Boston police officer ended with a finding in favor of the officer.

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Preserving black history in Roxbury For many years Boston has enjoyed a flourishing community of African American artists.

However, with the recent death of John Wilson, there is a realization that we are losing too many of the prominent elders of the art world. It is now more important than ever for the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists to become established in its new home in the state transportation building to be constructed adjacent to the Tremont Crossing project.

Wilson, a long time art professor at Boston University, earned the honor of being chosen to sculpt the bronze bust of Martin Luther King that stands in the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. His earlier sculpture “Eternal Presence” on the grounds of the museum received international acclaim. In addition to sculpture, Wilson was also known for the quality of his paintings and prints.

Just two years earlier, Richard Yarde, another distinguished artist from Roxbury, died after a serious illness. Yarde was recognized

as one of America’s leading watercolorists. A Boston University alumnus, he was formerly a professor of art at UMass Amherst.

In 2007, Allan R. Crite died at the age of 97.

He was well known for his paintings of street scenes in Roxbury and the South End. Fortunately, as the elders pass on there are young artists to continue the artistic tradition, such as painter Paul Goodnight and Fern Cunningham, a talented sculptor.

There are some who might underestimate the cultural importance of art, but what would the Italian Renaissance be without Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli or Titian? The Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists has the responsibility to serve as curator of the art that reflects the history, hopes and aesthetics of African Americans.

Just as the art of the Renaissance inspired the European civilization, so too does African American art cultivate the higher values of its cultural traditions.

Committed voters will beat the billionaires The affluent have always had a disproportionate impact on politics. Their ability to finance advertising has often influenced those of modest means to support policies that are not in their best interests. Now the billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch have announced plans for a super fund of almost $900 million to finance the 2016 presidential and congressional elections. This is equivalent to the budgets of either the Republican or Democratic Parties.

Before 2010 it would have been more difficult to raise such a huge fund. That year the U.S. Supreme Court changed the rules. In the case of Citizens United, the court permitted corporations and other organizations to make political contributions. Then last April the court once again expanded contribution limits.

The court decided to lift the $123,200 ceiling on the total amount an individual or corporation is permitted to contribute in a political election. However, the case of McCutcheon vs.

Federal Election Commission does not increase the limit of $2,600 to a political candidate in a federal election or $32,400 to a political party.

With the Koch fund, conservatives will have an enormous capacity to promote public policy that leans to the right. It is unlikely that those with a more liberal perspective will be able to raise enough funds to be a counter force. It is now more critical than ever for the less affluent voters to mobilize for a confrontation at the polls on Election Day. The top 1 percent may control the money, but each citizen has only one vote. The 99 percent still outnumber them.

MLK statue belongs in Rox. Reportedly, there is a move afloat to honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King with a statue created in his honor to be placed in City Hall Plaza. One of those leading this idea is City Councilor Charles Yancey, who thinks this is the year, being the 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s march in Boston, which took place on April 22, 1965.

I remembered this march. It started in Roxbury, passing through Dudley Square, on to Harrison Avenue and ended at the Boston Common. I was 16 years old, living with my family in an Orchard Park apartment along Har-

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Dr. King’s dream lives on through those who picked up his torch and carried it forward.

America is so much better today because of those long-ago struggles, and the work at hand continues for a society that treats everyone equally regardless of race or ethnic background.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR rison Avenue. As I watched Dr. King walk by my kitchen window, I waved to him and he waved back, a brief moment, a brief connection and a brief smile.

The City of Boston should create a memorial to his work, which did not end with his death. The Dream still lives. Where should his statue be? I believe it belongs in Dudley Square which today is having a rebirth. The Dudley Station area has seen hard times, but today things are changing as community leaders continue to hope and endure to reach a better time. Dr. King’s legacy is about hope, endurance and empowerment for all.

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By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON Texas Senator John Cornyn wasted no time with U.S. Attorney General designate Loretta Lynch. He asked her point-blank, “How are you going to be different from Eric Holder?” It was not a question. It was a demand. Lynch gave him the requisite answer, “I am not Eric Holder.”

That won’t be enough.

The instant President Obama nominated Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Lynch to replace outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, a core of leading GOP senators and conservative political action groups flatly said they’d do everything possible to block Lynch’s confirmation if she didn’t make it absolutely clear publicly that she would not be another Holder.

This meant Lynch would have to virtually repudiate every position and action that Holder took as Attorney General. The checklist includes abandoning continued tough enforcement of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act, few or no probes into police abuse and misconduct cases, a blind eye toward vigorous IRS enforcement of provisions to prevent blatant manipulation of the tax laws by right-wing political groups and rejection of Obama’s amnesty policies. Above all, the GOP’s butcher bill for a Lynch confirmation is that she must pledge not to utter a peep about racism and racial iniquities.

Lynch has no illusions that anything less than a total distancing from Holder will stall, if not derail, her confirmation. She will say all the right things on police-community relations, make nice with GOP congressional committees and play it close to the vest on of civil rights abuse enforcement.

The fact that she’s forced to play the role of the Holder antithesis says less about Lynch than it does about the ruthless determination of GOP congressional leaders to purge any and all residue of Holder’s effective and much-needed activist tenure as Attorney General from political life. Holder was piteously hounded every second during his years as Justice Department head. This was no accident. He became the softest of soft target in the GOP’s no-holds-barred campaign to hamstring Obama with the odor of scandal and in effect straitjacket his presidency. The race part was even more insidious. Holder meant what he said that the nation had marched backward for every step forward in dealing with racial bias. He backed up his words with repeated actions on voting rights abuses, grotesque racially skewed sentencing disparities, and defense of gay rights. This was crowned by his rush to St. Louis following the slaying of Michael Brown and putting dozens of FBI and Justice Department attorneys’ boots on the ground there with the strong hint that a civil rights prosecution could be in the offing if there was no state prosecution of Ferguson cop Darren Wilson for the killing of Brown. This sent the professional Holder-baiters into a tizzy and again the shouts were long and loud for his head.

Holder didn’t buckle. He even doubled down again on his blast at racism, noting on several occasions that he, as had Michael Brown and countless other young black males, had been profiled by police once as a law student and later as a federal prosecutor. To add even more to the GOP and Holder-baiters’ vitriol, he had the audacity to make that claim and reveal his personal experience with racial profiling in a keynote speech before Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention in 2013.

The proof of Holder’s effectiveness was the backhand perverse compliment the Holder-baiters paid him in their euphoria over his resignation.

They dredged up all the old distortions, myths, and lies about him in their rush to maliciously tar him as “the worst attorney general” the nation ever had. This spoke volumes how Holder was able to get under their skin to the point where they had to shout in glee at his departure.

Holder left a solid legacy of accomplishment in the areas that have been and continue to be the greatest flashpoints of public controversy, namely civil rights, and racial justice and fairness.

This is exactly what drove the GOP to hector, harass, hamstring and ultimately try to railroad Holder out of office during his years at the Justice Department. Their worst nightmare was that Obama would pick another AG candidate in the mold of Holder. That was never likely to happen given the continual carping and infighting that the Obama administration had to suffer through with the GOP in its low intensity war against Holder. But GOP Senate leaders took no chances and doubled down on Lynch before and during her Senate testimony. She will be confirmed. But be advised that won’t end the GOP’s hawk like watch to insure there is no deviation by Lynch from their anti-Holder playbook.

They’ll still hold her hostage to Holder.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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The proof of Holder’s effectiveness was the backhand perverse compliment the Holder-baiters paid him in their euphoria over his resignation.”

How are you surviving the snow?

A lot of shoveling and a lot of hot chocolate.

Chris Conroy Consultant Roxbury

I have no choice. It won’t end until it ends.

Marcus Cardwell

Transportation Director Roxbury

As best as I can. Kids these days see an old lady shoveling and don’t come and help.

Edna Willrich

Executive Director Roxbury

I stayed home the whole week. I’m just shoveled my car out now.

Herlina

Getting it up as soon as it snows.

Ain’t nobody doing it for me. When it snows, you got to get out and shovel it.

Gordon Gleaves Disabled Roxbury

There’s worse things to worry about than snow. This is New England.

Shakar

Housekeeper Roxbury

Entrepreneur Roxbury

as chair of the Licensing Committee. Dr. James is the 2008 awardee of the Mulligan Award for public service.

James’ passion lies in public health both domestically and globally. She is a Supervising Medical Officer on the Boston Disaster Medical Assistance Team, under the Department of Health and Human Services, which has responded to several disasters in the United States and across the globe. She has deployed to post 9/11 in NYC, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, Bam, Iran after the earthquake in 2003, and PortAu-Prince Haiti after the earthquake of 2010.

For twelve years, Dr. James has traveled to Haiti, with colleagues and emergency medicine residents. A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine, she completed an emergency medicine residency at Boston City Hospital, where she was a chief resident.

The Chamber’s awards honor business and professional women who have demonstrated excellence in entrepreneurship, management, and lifetime achievement. Typically attracting more than 1,000 attendees, the awards celebration is one of the premiere gatherings of women (and men) in the region.

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THEA L. JAMES The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce recently honored Dr. Thea L. James at its annual Pinnacle Awards celebration held last week. James is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center/ Boston University School of Medicine, and president of the Boston Medical and Dental Staff. She is also the Director of the Boston Medical Center site of the Massachusetts Violence Intervention Advocacy Program (VIAP).

James has chaired and served on national committees within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), served as a moderator, and has given public lectures and talks. She was appointed to the SAEM Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Task Force, is a member of the Boston University School of Medicine Admissions Committee, and in 2009, James was appointed to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, where she presently serves

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NEWSBRIEFS City launches Boston Snow Stats Mayor Martin J. Walsh joined the Department of Innovation and Technology, the Public Works Department and the Office of New Urban Mechanics this week in announcing “Boston Snow Stats,” an online platform for Boston residents to access snow operation information at any time. Snow Stats is available at: Snowstats.boston.gov .

“From day one, I’ve expressed a deep commitment to transparency, and Snow Stats brings the people of Boston closer to municipal government,” said Mayor Walsh. “With this tool residents will now be directly connected to the snow and ice removal process in their neighborhoods. Thanks to the creative work of the Department of Innovation and Technology, and the Office of New Urban Mechanics, the public now has an inside look at the Department of Public Works, who are working round-the-clock to make roads safe and accessible across Boston.”

At Snowstats.Boston.gov, residents can monitor Boston’s snow operations including an overview of the season showing the total miles and hours plowed, salt used and total snowfall. The platform also shows what phase the snow operation is in, and what tasks are being completed in each snow response phase.

Residents can also enter their residential address to get details about the percentage of streets plowed and the miles plowed in their neighborhood. The platform also shows the number of snow plows on duty, and the amount of time they have been on duty.

Snow Stats is a part of a larger

citywide strategy, such as Citizens Connect, to engage the community in the City of Boston’s daily operations, and use the City’s real-time data to drive decision making.

New book examines blacks and U.S. foreign policy Ambassador Charles Stith, along with his coeditors from Boston University, Dr. Linda Heywood, Dr. Joshua C. Yesnowitz and Professor Allison Blakely, launched their new book African Americans in US Foreign Policy: From the era of Frederick Douglass to the Age of Obama at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. this week.

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United Independent Party kicks off voter registration drive The United Independent Party announced today the kickoff of its statewide “Civic Engagement and Voter Registration Drive.”

Timed to honor Presidents Day and Black History Month, the news comes at a time when voter participation is at troubling lows. Over 2 million Massachusetts voters did not vote in the November 2014 election, and national voter turnout was the lowest in 72 years.

“The United Independent Party is dedicated to civic engagement,” said United Independent Party Chairman and former 2014 gubernatorial candidate Evan Falchuk. “Low voter turnout reflects the sense so many people have that the political system does not represent them,” said Falchuk. “Now more than ever, we must work together to create civic engagement by reaching out to people where they are, getting them to register to vote, and showing them how to make sure their voices are heard.”

The UIP also announced that Ron Bell, long-time voting rights activist, community organizer, and Senior Adviser to the United Independent Party, will play a lead role in this effort. “Voting is how we make our voices heard and how we make our state better,” said Bell.

“The way to hold our leaders accountable is to take the frustrations so many people feel and to channel them into constructive, positive action, which is why I am excited to be part of this movement.”

Statewide voter registration events are already underway, with a schedule of forthcoming voter registration drives to be announced in the coming weeks.

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“The Leverett Street Jail was the epicenter of some of the most contentious social and legal issues of the day,” said Duane Lucia, West End Museum Board President and Curator. “Sadly, its history has been eclipsed by the Charles Street Jail and the loss of Leverett Street to urban renewal.”

Walls of Stone: The Leverett Street Jail explores the institution’s connections to such hotbed issues as capital punishment, slavery and abolitionism, blasphemy and women’s rights. The Jail was infamous for overcrowding and intermingling inmates with no regard for severity of crime. Seven of 10 women incarcerated there were innocent, arrested purely on the word of others for such offenses as speaking out about politics. Among the institution’s most well-known inmates are: n Dr. John Webster, who was ultimately convicted and hanged for the notorious 1849 murder of George Parkman. n William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist leader, suffragist and social reformer who was held temporarily for his own protection against an angry mob. n Don Pedro Gibert, an early 19th century pirate who held the distinction of being the last pirate executed in Boston. n Abner Kneeland, who preached birth control, women’s property rights and interracial marriage and was the last person in the U.S. convicted of blasphemy.

The Leverett Street Jail (18221851) was replaced by the Charles Street Jail (1851-1990; now The Liberty Hotel), which was later replaced by the Nashua Street Jail (1990-present).

Children’s Winter Festival returns to Franklin Park February 19 Mayor Martin Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department invite families to the Franklin Park Golf Course Clubhouse for the Children’s Winter Festival on Thursday, February 19, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

“Winter time is fun time for Boston’s kids at this free festival during the school break at Franklin Park,” said Walsh. “We’ll have activities indoors and outdoors for children of all ages.”

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The festival will also feature Rosalita’s Puppets, winter arts and crafts, balloon animals, and refreshments provided by New England Coffee.

In addition, the L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery School will present their Snowshoeing Discovery Course, a fun and easy way to try out the sport with expert instructors who will lead an easy guided trek through Franklin Park. Snowshoes will be provided along with sleds for sledding. Participants should wear weather-appropriate clothing and winter or hiking boots.

Free parking is available at the clubhouse parking lot located at One Circuit Drive in Franklin Park. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at (617) 6354505, visit www.cityofboston.gov/ parks or go to www.facebook.com/ bostonparksdepartment.

State, federal officials warn of tax scams Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin today joined the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in warning Massachusetts taxpayers about the rise of telephone tax scams.

“With tax filing season upon us, my office has received a number of calls from people who have been contacted by someone claiming to be from the IRS, telling them they are in tax trouble and offering help in resolving it,” Secretary Galvin said. “The object is usually a bid for personal and financial information as well as money.”

“No matter how intimidating the caller sounds, you should never give personal information, like social security numbers or bank account numbers, over the telephone to a cold caller,” Galvin said.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has said the IRS has seen a surge in these phone scams in recent months.

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continued from page A1 overly friendly “rubber stamp” for developers and not forthcoming enough about its plans for land parcels.

“We don’t seek to erase past blemishes or hide our faults. We seek to learn from them,” Golden says in the report’s introduction, mentioning 20th-century urban renewal strategies that razed entire neighborhoods, and policies and systems at the agency that have “lagged woefully behind.”

Now the agency wants to transform itself and its image.

“What we really want to do is get the message out that we are an agency that is changing for the better,” said BRA spokesperson Nicholas Martin. “In the past we may have shied away from criticism and scrutiny — but we want people to scrutinize us.”

One of the first changes after the KPMG report was shifting management of Inclusionary Development Policy funds — collected from residential project developers who opt to meet their affordable housing requirements by paying into the fund instead of constructing affordable units onsite — to the Department of Neighborhood Development. The BRA will maintain control of developer compliance with IDP requirements, while DND, led by Housing Chief Sheila Dillon, will control how and where the funding is used for offsite affordable housing creation.

Changes have also been made to the way the BRA conducts the development review process under “Article 80” of the city’s zoning code. Article 80 spells out

community meeting and public comment period requirements for development projects and hospital and college Institutional Master Plans. In 2014, the BRA’s board of directors moved to strengthen rules for designating zoning overlay districts and to flag possible conflicts of interest sooner by requiring earlier disclosure of all individuals who have a financial interest in a project.

Closing loopholes

The report also covers efforts toward greater transparency in land transfers. In the past, loopholes allowed the BRA in some cases to take or transfer property without public notification and a community process. Martin cited as an example the BRA’s granting to Fenway Park permanent rights to use Yawkey Way and Lansdowne Street. The deal in 2013, under former Mayor Thomas Menino and former BRA Director Peter Meade, was done without public input and with little review even by BRA board members. According to the report, as of August 2014, the BRA’s new policy requires developers requesting land takings and transfers to submit to stricter documentation and a public public comment process in advance of Board action.

Golden, a former state representative from Brighton, was named acting director of the BRA shortly after Walsh assumed office in January, 2014, filling the seat vacated when Meade retired.

Walsh formally appointed Golden to the director role in December.

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Changes to the BRA Board include the appointment by Walsh of Ted Landsmark, former president of the Boston Architectural College as a new board member and Timothy Burke as board chairman.

The KMPG audit cited numerous ways in which the BRA was lagging in modern data handling.

The BRA report highlights improvements and projects underway, including a new website and new online systems for Article 80 document submission, public access to parcel and zoning information and viewing of BRA board meetings and related documents.

Affordability challenges

Boston had an extraordinarily busy year in development, with $4 billion in new construction breaking ground in 2014. Developments currently under construction total 14.5 million square feet, more than triple the amount in 2012, according to the report. Boston’s population is projected to keep growing in the coming decades, and the city’s new housing plan released last fall calls for creation of 53,000 new units of housing in 15 years. Challenges in this endeavor include ensuring that a good portion of those housing units will be affordable to low-income and middle-income residents, despite a market that continues to encourage luxury development.

In addition to improvements to the collection process, local housing advocates would like to see increases to the amount of money developers pay into the IDP fund

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Boston Municipal Research Bureau, a fiscal watchdog group, told the Banner the fact that Mayor Walsh commissioned this review and has instituted operational reviews of eight other departments is a good sign. “[Walsh] wants to ‘kick the tires’ and see how things are working and how they could be done better. You’d expect this from the first new city administration in 20 years,” he said. “But then it’s their responsibility to take the recommendations and do something with them.”

Tyler said the BRA’s end-of-year report is indicative of the new BRA leadership’s desire to make the agency more efficient and responsive. Still, he would like to see further outside evaluations to assess outcomes.

“It’s a worthwhile report, in terms of giving an update, but some of the things are still planned, so I think they’ll need a 2nd year report and a 3rd year report to show whether things are being done,” he said.

City councilor Tito Jackson, too, is encouraged at the mayor’s willingness to have an audit, and said it is “critical” to examine all of the BRA’s funding sources and ensure land dispositions are yielding benefits to city neighborhoods.

“I am very pleased that the audit has found substantial amounts of money owed to the city and that the BRA has worked to recover those dollars,” Jackson told the Banner.

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The Boston Tenant Coalition is pushing for an increase in IDP requirements, raising the affordable housing requirement for large developments from 15 percent to 25 percent and increasing the fee paid by developers who opt out of building affordable units onsite.

The current fee of $200,000 per unit does not cover the actual cost of producing new units. BTC and other groups, such as the Chinese Progressive Association, also want to see IDP funds earmarked for affordable housing in the specific neighborhoods where the large development is occurring, and for planning and development to be more inclusive and democratic.

“We are seeing all this development going up along with rising rents and displacement. It’s key we update this policy to help address further Boston’s extreme housing crisis,” said BTC Executive Director Kathy Brown.

Mayor Walsh’s office addressed the IDP reform topic in an e-mail to the Banner, stating, “A key component of [our] housing strategy is growing Boston’s affordable housing stock for the city’s workforce.

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continued from page A1 to several shouting matches overheard by a Banner reporter.

Retiree Edna Jones-Stroud, a Crawford Street resident, resorted to shoveling rather than shouting after her neighbors added to the burden of clearing a 60-foot stretch of sidewalk.

“My neighbors cleared their cars and shoveled it onto my sidewalk,” she said. “Can you imagine me, 79 years old, shoveling all this?”

And with the cleared parking spots, out came the orange cones, lawn chairs and other space savers to stake a claim on parking spots earned with an hour-and-a-half of hard labor. And when interlopers took spots that others had shoveled, sparks flew. One Elm Hill Avenue resident posted on social media a video of a neighbor shoveling snow on a car that had taken his space.

The snowfall came at a cost, not just to shovelers’ backs and tempers, but also to businesses, which

suffered through a state-wide ban on auto traffic Tuesday of last week and, in Boston, four days of school closures resulting from the storms.

Monica Cannon of Roxbury works full time and has two sons in high school and a daughter in middle school.

“It’s been horrible,” she said.

“The sidewalks haven’t been cleared properly, and my street hadn’t been plowed when I left for work this morning,” she said Tuesday. “If you’re a single working parent like me, it’s tough. They close the schools but they don’t always close your job.”

On the recent no-school days, she said, she loaded up on popcorn and movies and had her kids’ friends come over, enlisting another parent to check on them periodically while she was at work.

While the streets open up and students head back to school, Boston residents are bracing for still more snow — 1-3 inches on Thursday and yet another Monday storm that could bring 3-8 inches, according to a forecast on the Weather Underground website.

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“If someone calls unexpectedly claiming to be from the IRS with aggressive threats if you don’t pay immediately, it’s a scam artist calling,” Commissioner Koskinen

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We don’t operate that way.”

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has received reports of about 200,000 contacts from scammers nationally and is aware of as many as 3,000 victims

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The evolution of a community staple Tropical Foods ‘hybrid’ market grows, retains customer base

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

SEAN HENNESSY

Zamawa Arenas

Business with a social conscience

‘Work that Matters’ a core principle

By MARTIN DESMARAIS

Argus principal Zamawa Arenas told herself she would only stay to work in the United States after graduate school — and not return home to her family and friends in her native Venezuela — if she could find a job that could some way have an impact on people living in her new country. She believes she has found this with Argus, an advertising and brand strategy agency that focuses on work for education, health-care, nonprofit and government clients.

At the Seaport-based Argus, Arenas and her colleagues say they are serious about choosing the kind of clients they work with, to the point that the agency’s motto is “Work that Matters.”

In today’s media world with its sensationalism and bottom-line mentality, this might seem an impossible task, but Arenas sticks to her guns.

“I am not inspired to sell soap.

I am inspired to make a difference in people’s lives,” she said.

This also means no clients that sell alcohol or tobacco or guns. So even if giants such as Budweiser or Philip Morris came knocking — companies that spend millions

and millions on advertising and branding — Argus would not open the door.

Argus also has no consumer goods clients.

“What is essential to Argus is to do work that matters, that is our core value and core principle.

That leads us to work with organizations that we respect and admire,” Arenas said.

Some of these organizations include Neighborhood Health Plan, a health insurance business that brings health-care coverage to Boston’s diverse communities; Children’s Trust, a family support organization that funds childhood development and creating nurturing family and community environments; and the Boston Housing Authority, which provides affordable housing to Boston residents.

Values matter

Argus does open the door for some business clients.

The agency works with Staples to help the office-supply company connect with the Latino market.

It also works with Comcast in a similar fashion, helping to promote the cable-TV provider’s Spanish-language line-up.

Offering advertising, brand strategy and digital services,

Argus is similar to other agency competitors, but its ability to connect clients with multicultural markets has given the business a strong reputation. Still, Arenas believes the company’s philosophy is the ultimate selling point.

And the growth of social enterprise and social entrepreneurism would suggest that Arenas is spot on. She says that the company’s values resonates with many clients and may, in fact, have drawn them to Argus in the first place.

But don’t think Argus is just trying to cash in on the growing trend. Arenas’ decision to stay in the U.S. and work for Argus came almost 20 years ago in 1997, not long after the company was founded by fellow immigrant Lucas Guerra, a native of Argentina.

“We have been doing this from the very beginning. It is not something we have picked up as a new trend,” Arenas said. “It has worked for us … We are proud of the work we do for our clients and we are proud in helping them advance their own issues and causes.”

Arenas knows her life could have gone differently if she had not chosen to stay in the United States

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Tropical Foods has been a Dudley Square mainstay for four decades, and third generation owners Ronn Garry Jr. and Randy Garry hope the supermarket’s brand new store — opened just this week near the corner of Washington Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard — will cement the ethnic food market trendsetter in Roxbury for many more decades to come.

While Tropical Foods, which was originally called El Platanero when it was opened in 1974 in Dudley Square, has become famous for its selection of ethnic foods, the new store is similar to other modern supermarkets with a broader selection of food.

Ronn Garry Jr. calls the new Tropical Foods a “hybrid.” The store’s slogan is, after all, “The Supermarket for Everyone,” and the new location will allow the store to deliver on this promise.

“It is ethnic, but is it also now modern and conventional,” Garry said.

According to Garry, it was a necessary move to expand Tropical Foods’ offerings. It is the same choice many independent grocery stores must now mull in the face of competition from large brands such as Star Market, Whole Foods and Walmart.

Garry said he has watched other independent stores not make the leap and fail and he did not want Tropical Foods to suffer the same fate.

“We were given a choice — either grow or die,” he said. “To compete in today’s world we knew we needed a bigger store.”

The new Tropical Foods store is just around the corner from the original location, but it is worlds away in terms of size and modernity. The old store was just 8,500 square feet. The new store is 21,000 square feet.

With the expansion comes

the addition of thousands of new items to the shelves, Garry said.

Some of the major differences are a meat counter with 80–100 meat items, a deli, a fresh fish counter and a bakery. The new Tropical Foods also has a greatly expanded produce section with as many as 150 new items and a wider array of organic products in all food categories.

But you can bet Tropical Foods will still offer the ethnic foods — such as curries, rice, beans and other specialties from around the world — that have given the market a loyal customer base.

Growing pains

Garry said it was very important to recognize his loyal customers, and he believes the new location retains the comfort and character of the old store, just with more space.

“Our existing customers know we built it for them,” he said.

Only it is more than that. It is about offering the kind of all-inone grocery store that people have come to expect.

The owners of Tropical Foods had little doubt the old location could continue to attract customers looking for the ethnic offerings that cannot be found anywhere else, but they also knew they were losing some customers to the convenience of big-box supermarkets.

Garry experienced this first hand when he was doing research on expansion while visiting large supermarkets in Boston. While making the rounds he saw former customers that he knew from Tropical Foods. He asked them why they no longer shopped there and chose larger stores farther away. The answer was always the same — they wanted to shop at a bigger store with more variety, and they wanted to make just one trip, not have to go to one store for

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ethnic food and another store for more typical fare.

This kind of feedback solidified the decision to build a new store.

“We saw that there were customers that left and we want to get those customers back,” Garry said.

The new Tropical Foods location broke ground in January 2014, less than a month after the financing for the project was finalized. Madison Park Development Corporation partnered with Tropical Foods to oversee the project.

Madison Park also agreed to buy the old Tropical Foods location, helping add capital to the new store project. The land the new store is on is owned by the city and the state, but Tropical Foods has a 99-year lease on the property.

Cuban native Pastor Medina opened the original El Platanero store in Dudley Square in the early 1970s. In 1988, Medina sold the store to his son-in-law, Ronn Garry Sr., who named it Tropical Foods. Ronn Garry Jr. and Randy Garry bought the store from their father in 2006.

Tropical Foods peaked at serving 13,000–14,000 customers per week at its old location. Garry estimates that the new store should see a 25–30 percent increase in

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continued from page A11 all those years ago and instead returned to Venezuela, a country that is now embroiled in turmoil.

She is the only member of her family that lives here — with her parents and two siblings back in Venezuela. She tries to visit once year, but does not see herself returning for good.

Aside from the business opportunities she is presented in the U.S., she is also drawn to what she calls “the independent spirit” of Americans and the opportunity to thrive professionally as she has.

Arenas got a taste of life in the U.S. at an early age when her parents came to Pittsburgh for graduate school when she was just seven years old. They spent five years here before returning back to their homeland.

After high school and university in Venezuela, Arenas quickly secured a job working as a program director for HBO Latin America.

She held this job for about five years, but felt the United States calling and jumped on the opportunity to attend graduate school at Boston University, following in her parent’s footsteps.

Considering the beliefs Arenas puts to work professionally with Argus, it is also no surprise that she is involved in several community support organizations outside of the office. She is a Boston Public Library Trustee and a founding member of the Latino Legacy Fund, a partnership of local Latino philanthropists and leaders, the Boston Foundation, and Hispanics in Philanthropy that is building a $1 million endowment fund to support Boston-area Latino programs.

“It is a real rewarding experience to get to a place where I can give money and create a fund and give back to the community,” she said.

customers per week compared to the old store’s numbers. Tropical Foods is also expanding from 70 employees to 100 employees, almost all of whom live in Boston and its neighborhoods.

The area has been craving a supermarket option and the new Tropical Foods can very likely satisfy much of this demand.

“We are happy to sort of invest back into the community,” Garry said.

He hopes the new Tropical Foods will become the same kind of supermarket landmark for a whole new base of customers as the old store was for its long-time, ethnic-food patrons.

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data-sharing to raise its four-year graduation rate to 66.7 percent — the highest recorded rate in the department’s history. In 2006, before the department began its efforts to raise the graduation rate, it was just over 59 percent.

Black students have made some of the greatest gains in that time period, with a 65 percent four-year graduation rate, up from 55 percent in 2006. Latino students saw their rates increase from 50 percent to 59 percent, and English Language Learners saw an increase from 54 percent to 61 percent.

“This good news is a testament to the hard work of our students, teachers, school and community leaders,” said Mayor Martin Walsh in a press statement. “I am proud of our accomplishments, but I know the work is far from done.

We must continue to invest in and strengthen our schools so that every young person has the opportunity to succeed.”

Real-time data

While the four-year graduation rate has risen over the last nine years, the annual dropout rate has dipped to 3.8 percent.

Marsha Inniss, who heads the School Department’s efforts to increase the college graduation rates of BPS grads, credits improved data sharing practices for the educational gains its students are making.

“We have access to real-time data,” she said. “We’re able to do corrections earlier based on the data we’re receiving.”

Test scores, grades and attendance are among the most telling data sets the department is relying on to track students who are at risk of not graduating high school within four years. When a student’s grades, test scores or record of absences indicate that the student is falling behind, the department is able to provide the student with options, including

alternative high schools or education programs that better fit the student’s learning style.

A guidance counselor can also refer students to nonprofits such as Freedom House that provide oneon-one tutoring and other forms of support to help them complete coursework they’ve either failed or have not yet taken.

“It might be an algebra 1 course, English or an elective,” said Jan Manfredi, director of Online and Blended Learning at the Boston Public Schools.

Different students, different struggles

The city’s 30 public high schools have different requirements for graduation. And the students have different reasons why they are short on the credits needed to graduate. Some are teen mothers. Some have had run-ins with the criminal justice system. Arthur estimates that as many of 60 percent of the students she works with at Freedom House are holding down part-time jobs to help support their families. The coalition helps those students by placing them in paying internships.

Manfredi says she’s impressed with the students’ focus, once they enter the credit recovery programs.

“They see the light at the end of the tunnel,” she said. “It’s amazing to see the work they put in. They can be on the system 24 hours a day. I get calls sometimes at 10:30 at night.”

Freedom House is currently working with 35 students during the school year. It’s a small slice of the student population, but replicated across the city, programs like those run by the Multicultural Dropout Outreach Collaborative have helped increase graduation rates, working with as many as 3,700 students a year across the city.

For Arthur, the best part is seeing the students she’s worked with graduate.

“It’s rewarding to see them when they go to their graduation and get their degree,” she said.

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Obama’s Arctic decisions may be the climate’s turning point

By MARK TRAHANT New America Media

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — This is the Climate Moment. A possible turning point.

Consider the massive storm that resulted in a state of emergency throughout much of New England with temperatures in the teens, gusty winds, and snow measured by the foot not the inch. We know from the science that climate change will make storms more severe and more common.

It’s also the moment when the Obama administration stepped up to preserve the environment — as well as protect Alaska Native communities — by limiting future oil and gas development in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along the Coastal Plain.

A White House blog put it this way: “This far northern region is known as ‘The Sacred Place Where Life Begins’ to Alaska Native communities. The Refuge sustains the most diverse array of wildlife in the entire Arctic — home not only to the Porcupine caribou, but to polar bears, gray wolves, and muskoxen.

Bird species from the Coastal Plain migrate to all 50 states of the country — meaning that no matter where you live, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is part of your landscape.”

But pretty much all of official Alaska saw this issue differently.

On Capitol Hill, Alaska Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the administration has “effectively declared war on Alaska. That’s my view of it.”

“It’s a one-two-three kick to the gut of Alaska’s economy,” she said,

adding that the governor told the Secretary of Interior that Alaska has a budget hole of about $3.5 billion — a problem that will be made worse without more oil production.

And this is an odd time for Alaska. The state budgeted for oil to be selling at more than a hundred dollars a barrel — and now the price is less than half that. This is a state that an oil and gas trade group brags that 92 percent of the state’s revenues come from that single industry.

So Alaska has had a grand old time with its oil money. Instead of a personal income tax, Alaskans receive their version of a tribal per capita every year. In fact Alaska ranks second lowest in the country in overall taxes (Wyoming is first) but that figure is skewed because nearly all of the money comes from corporate taxes. There is no income tax or sales tax.

Perhaps this serious budget shortage might actually force Alaska citizens to contribute to their state and pay taxes the way, oh, 49 other states and the District of Columbia do.

But let’s talk climate. Neither the White House nor the Interior Department cited climate change as their reason for limiting development in Alaska.

Then again, a new analysis published in Nature in January said that more fossil fuels will have to be left in the ground in order to prevent further damage from climate change. The piece said that known reserves of coal, oil and gas, including the Canadian tar sands, all Arctic oil and gas, cannot be developed and still keep temperatures under current limits. The authors

wrote: “Our results suggest that, globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused from 2010 to 2050 in order to meet the target.”

That means no new Arctic oil and gas developments. No more tar sands. And, by extension, no Keystone XL pipeline.

What’s interesting about the research is how specific it is about developing Arctic resources.

The authors, Christophe McGlade and Paul Ekins from

University College in London, estimate “100 billion barrels of oil (including natural gas liquids) and 5 trillion cubic meters of gas in fields within the Arctic Circle that are not being produced as of 2010.”

That production alone could tip the globe and warm more than is considered safe. “The results indicate to us that all Arctic resources should be classified as unburnable.

To conclude, these results demonstrate that a stark transformation in our understanding of fossil fuel availability is necessary. Although there have previously been fears over the scarcity of fossil fuels in a climate-constrained world this is no longer a relevant concern: large portions of the reserve base and an even greater proportion of the resource base should not be produced

if the temperature rise is to remain below 2 degrees” above pre-industrial levels.

The president’s action is not final.

Congress would have to do that. But this action means the Interior Department can manage the lands as if Congress had acted. (Congress could reverse Interior, but remember in the Senate that means finding 60 votes. That’s not likely to happen.)

Is this the Climate Moment? The turning point? There is a lot of work ahead, but the Obama administration is acting as if the answers are a “yes.”

Mark Trahant holds the Atwood Chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is an independent journalist and a member of The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes.

President Obama’s steps to limit oil and gas development could have a big effect on slowing climate change.

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MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. AP1511-C1, FY 15-17 PERIMETER FENCE REPAIRS – TERM CONTRACT, ALL AUTHORITY FACILITIES, BOSTON, BEDFORD, AND, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE: PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2015.

The work includes PROVISION OF LABOR, INCIDENTAL MATERIALS, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES TO REPAIR AND MAINTAIN ALL PERIMETER FENCE SYSTEMS AT THE AUTHORITY’S PROPERTIES IN EAST BOSTON, BEDFORD AND WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS AS REQUIRED FROM TIME TO TIME ON AN “AS NEEDED/ON CALL” BASIS FOR A TIME PERIOD OF TWENTY- FOUR (24) MONTHS. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda

or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

The estimated contract cost is ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000.00) A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

LEGAL The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION DOLLARS ($1,000,000). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

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Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

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NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 10:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015.

The work includes PROVISION OF LABOR, INCIDENTAL MATERIALS, TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES TO MAKE CAULKING/SEALANT REPAIRS INCLUDING ASSOCIATED CONCRETE REPAIRS AT ALL MPA FACILITIES ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A TWO (2) YEAR PERIOD. Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

In order to be eligible and responsible to bid on this contract General Bidders must submit with their bid a current Certificate of Eligibility issued by the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance and an Update Statement. The General Bidder must be certified in the category of WATERPROOFING. The estimated contract cost is FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($400,000).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of $10,000,000.00 (TEN MILLION DOLLARS). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS CLASSIFIED LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT & MAINTENANCE (DCAMM) 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:

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

*Every Filed Sub-bidder must submit a valid Sub-bidder Certificate of Eligibility with its bid and must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance in the category of sub-bid work for which they bid.

General Bids at 2:00 PM:

MARCH 11, 2015

Every General Bidder must be certified by the Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance for the category of work and for no less than the bid price plus all add alternates of this project.

The Category of Work is:

General Building Construction

Mass. State Project No.

SDN1250 Contract No. HC1

Norfolk County Correctional Center, Security System Replacement Dedham, MA And the following Filed Sub-Bids: Fire Protection Sprinkler System; Plumbing; HVAC; Electrical.

E.C.C: $2,839,000.00

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This project is scheduled for 362 calendar days to substantial completion and in general includes: The project consists of the renovation of Central Control to provide a security electronics closet, toilet room, new finishes, new space conditioning, new lighting. Furnish and install a new security controls system to provide integrated control of doors, cameras, intercom/paging, card readers, inmate phones, housing unit water supply. A Pre-bid Meeting is scheduled for Friday, February, 13, 2015 @ 10:00 AM. at the Norfolk County Correctional Center, 200 West Street, Dedham, MA. Prior to the pre-bid meeting, please submit a security Clearance Form available from Deputy Superintendent Steve Randall at srandall@norfolksheriffma.org.

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. 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 MARCH 25, 2015 (ten business days after the opening of General Bids) otherwise the deposit shall be the property of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

Docket No. SU15P0123GD

Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Appointment of Guardian for Incapacitated Person Pursuant to G.L. c. 190B, §5-304 In the matter of William F Callahan, Jr. Of Mattapan, MA RESPONDENT Alleged Incapacitated Person To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by William Callahan of Mattapan, MA in the above captioned matter alleging that William F Callahan, Jr. is in need of a Guardian and requesting that William Callahan of Mattapan, MA (or some other suitable person) be appointed as Guardian to serve on the bond.

The petition asks the court to determine that the Respondant is incapacitated, that the appointment of a Guardian is necessary, that the proposed Guardian is appropriate. The petition is on file with this court and may contain a request for certain specific authority.

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 02/26/2015. 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.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

WE DO NOT MAIL PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Messenger and other type 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.

Carole Cornelison COMMISSIONER

The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person.

If the above-named person cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense.

WITNESS, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: January 20, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Sealed General Bids for MPA Contract No. MPA CONTRACT NO. MP1502-C1, FY15 MARITIME TERM MISCELLANEOUS IRON REPAIRS BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will be received by the Massachusetts Port Authority at the Capital Programs Department Office, Suite 209S, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, East Boston, Massachusetts 02128-2909, until 11:00 A.M. local time on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015, immediately after which, in a designated room, the bids will be opened and read publicly.

NOTE:

PRE BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE CAPITAL PROGRAMS DEPARTMENT (ABOVE ADDRESS) AT 11:00 A.M. LOCAL TIME ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2015.

The work includes PROVISION OF ALL EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS, LABOR AND SUPERVISION NECESSARY TO MAKE STRUCTURAL STEEL AND ARCHITECTURAL IRON REPAIRS; FABRICATION OF MISCELLANIOUS METAL ITEMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: RAILS, LADDERS, FRAMES AND SUPPORTS AT ALL MASSPORT MARITIME FACILITIES ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS OVER A ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD.

SUFFOLK ss.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU14P1641PM

To all persons interested in the estate of Ruth T. Brown of Boston, in said County - a person under conversatorship.

A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell a private sale certain real estate of said Ruth T. Brown for her maintenance.

If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 19th day of February, 2015, the return day of this citation.

Witness, Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 26th day of January, 2015.

Felix D. Arroyo, Register.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department

Bid documents will be made available beginning THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015.

Bid Documents in electronic format may be obtained free of charge at the Authority’s Capital Programs Department Office, together with any addenda or amendments, which the Authority may issue and a printed copy of the Proposal form.

SUFFOLK Division

In the matter of Valerie Cenat of Mattapan, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME

The estimated contract cost is NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($90,000.00).

Bidding procedures and award of the contract and sub contracts shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sections 44A through 44J inclusive, Chapter 149 of the General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A proposal guaranty shall be submitted with each General Bid consisting of a bid deposit for five (5) percent of the value of the bid; when sub bids are required, each must be accompanied by a deposit equal to five (5) percent of the sub bid amount, in the form of a bid bond, or cash, or a certified check, or a treasurer’s or a cashier’s check issued by a responsible bank or trust company, payable to the Massachusetts Port Authority in the name of which the Contract for the work is to be executed. The bid deposit shall be (a) in a form satisfactory to the Authority, (b) with a surety company qualified to do business in the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Authority, and (c) conditioned upon the faithful performance by the principal of the agreements contained in the bid.

The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract price. The surety shall be a surety company or securities satisfactory to the Authority. Attention is called to the minimum rate of wages to be paid on the work as determined under the provisions of Chapter 149, Massachusetts General Laws, Section 26 to 27G, inclusive, as amended. The Contractor will be required to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedules listed in Division II, Special Provisions of the Specifications, which wage rates have been predetermined by the U. S. Secretary of Labor and / or the Commissioner of Labor and Industries of Massachusetts, whichever is greater.

The successful Bidder will be required to purchase and maintain Bodily Injury Liability Insurance and Property Damage Liability Insurance for a combined single limit of ONE MILLION ($1,000,000.00). Said policy shall be on an occurrence basis and the Authority shall be included as an Additional Insured. See the insurance sections of Division I, General Requirements and Division II, Special Provisions for complete details.

No filed sub bids will be required for this contract.

This Contract is also subject to Affirmative Action requirements of the Massachusetts Port Authority contained in the Non Discrimination and Affirmative Action article of Division I, General Requirements and Covenants, and to the Secretary of Labor’s Requirement for Affirmative Action to Ensure Equal Opportunity and the Standard Federal Equal Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications (Executive Order 11246).

Docket No. SU15C0025CA

To all persons interested in a petition described: A petition has been presented by Valerie Cenat requesting that Valerie Cenat be allowed to change her name as follows: Valerie Jean Cenate IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 02/26/2015.

WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court.

Date: January 21, 2015 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate

REAL ESTATE Affordable Homeownership Holliston, MA

31 Regency Drive, Unit 31 One 2-Bedroom Unit - $90,000 Information Session: Wed. 2/25/15, 7:30 pm Holliston Town Hall, 703 Washington Street, Holliston

Open House: Saturday 2/28/15, Noon to 2 pm

The General Contractor is required to submit a Certification of Non Segregated Facilities prior to award of the Contract, and to notify prospective subcontractors of the requirement for such certification where the subcontract exceeds $10,000.

Applications accepted through 3/11/15, 1 pm

Complete information and authorization to view the site may be obtained from the Capital Programs Department Office at the Massachusetts Port Authority. The right is reserved to waive any informality in or reject any or all proposals.

Application and Lottery Information: Housing@Sudbury.Ma.US 278 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury, MA 01776, 978-639-3373

MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY THOMAS P. GLYNN CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Lottery 3/24/15 at 7:30 pm

Income Limit 60% Boston AMI and Asset Limits Use and Resale Restrictions Apply

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All affordable homes will be at least 1,544 (and may be up to 1,932 sqft, not including an unfinished basement) and have 3 bedrooms, 1.5 to 2 bathrooms, central A/C, Energy Star windows, and garage parking for at least one car. The first affordable homes will be ready in the spring of 2015.

This is a lottery for the 9 affordable Single Family Homes being built at The Pines in Dighton, MA. These 9 homes will be sold at affordable prices to households with incomes at or below 80% of the area median income. The first affordable homes will be ready in May 2015.

The Maximum Income Limits for Households are as follows: $44,750 (1 person), $51,150 (2 people), $57,550 (3 people), $63,900 (4 people), $69,050 (5 people) and $74,150 (6 people) Households cannot have more than $75,000 in assets.

For more information on the Development, the Homes or the Lottery and Application Process or for reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities, please visit: www.s-e-b. com/lottery or call 617.782.6900x2.

Applications due March 31st, 2015 A Public Info Session will be on March 3rd, 2015 at 6 pm in the Dighton Public Library (395 Main Street, Dighton, MA). The lottery will be on April 14th, 2015 in the same location.

Applications and Info Packets also available in the Dighton Public Library (395 Main St, Dighton, MA) Hours: M 10-4, Tu-Th noon-8, F 10-4, Sa 10-2

REAL ESTATE Acton Affordable Housing Three 3 Bedroom Detached SFH Price: $195,200

The Meadows at Acton 263 Great Road MAX INCOME 1—$47,450 4—$67,750 2—$54,200 5—$73,200 3—$61,000 6—$78,600

Public Information Meeting 6:30 p.m., Monday, February 9th Acton Public Safety Bldg, 371 Main Application Deadline March 12, 2015

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Program eligibility includes: • • • • •

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For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 218.

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It’s Open Enrollment time at the Massachusetts Health Connector. If you have health insurance through the Health Connector or the temporary MassHealth program, you must submit a new application to maintain coverage through the Commonwealth.

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BROADWAY ACTORS SHARE THEIR

MOTOWN JOURNEY

JOAN MARCUS

Patrice Covington as Martha Reeves (center) and the cast of Motown The Musical’s first national tour.

Motown The Musical on stage at Boston Opera House

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

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roadway actors Julius Thomas III and Jesse Nager are very much aware of the responsibility that rests on their shoulders in playing living legends Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson, respectively, in the touring production of Motown The Musical. The show is based on the life of Berry Gordy, and was also written and co-produced by the Motown founder.

Thomas, having portrayed Lamont Dozier and Jermaine Jackson in the Broadway production, grew up in Gary, Indiana and was very much a fan of the Jackson 5.

“I sang growing up and sang in church and had some of the same teachers that the Jackson 5 had,” said Thomas in a telephone interview with the Banner.

“They were very much a part of my life. I can remember combing through tape bins with my allowance trying to get every tape that I could find of the Jackson 5 and not really knowing what that meant as far as what Motown was concerned but knowing that I was in love with this music, in love with this group.”

Jesse Nager, who opened the Broadway production of Motown as Eddie Kendricks of The Temptations, broke into the theater scene in 2003. His role as Kendricks in

the Broadway production was his first principal contract on a production of this magnitude.

“It’s definitely one of the biggest things I’ve ever done,” said Nager.

High school opportunity

Nager was born in Boston and raised in Somerville, Mass., until the age of ten before moving to New York City. The budding performer, who attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, was a very active child and recalls that he was always dancing around the house to the music of the Jackson 5. He recounts his years at LaGuardia High School

as crucial in developing his talent and passion for performing, and in building long-lasting friendships.

“Some of the best friends I’ve ever made in my life are from that school, just because you’re all sort of discovering — music in my case — dance, art for the first time together and really nurturing and fostering who you are as artists together and I think that just really propels the growth in a way that you wouldn’t get in a normal school.”

Nager described some of the amazing opportunities he was fortunate to have including performing with Mariah Carey.

“When I was there Mariah

IF YOU GO WHAT: Motown The Musical WHERE: Boston Opera House WHEN: Through Sunday, Feb. 15 TICKETS: Available through an authorized

ticket seller found only at Ticketmaster 800-982-2787, and by visiting www.BroadwayInBoston.com.

Carey came to Madison Square Garden and she wanted some kids to sing with her in her concert, so she came to my school. Shania Twain did the same thing. You have these incredible opportunities. We were right across the street from Lincoln Center, so you get to go to the opera all the time. You go to all these concerts and symphonies and you’re surrounded by culture and talent.”

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Branford Marsalis warms crowd with hot set New Orleans jazz saxophonist played Harvard’s Sanders Theater

By KEVIN C. PETERSON

Branford Marsalis opened his extraordinary 90-minute set at Harvard’s Sanders Theater last week with grumbling, complaint and a decidedly off-balanced gait.

“I think this is the last time I am coming to Boston in January,” exclaimed Marsalis who hails from one of the country’s most prominent and prolific jazz families.

The saxophonist from New Orleans was blaming Boston’s latest heaping of snow for his travel troubles that delayed his recent flight and caused the cancellation of a master jazz class he was scheduled the teach at Harvard before the concert.

But at the performance the saxophonist was also hobbling across the stage all night, saying it was the first gig he’s had since his knee surgery in December.

“I am old. I’ve aged. That happens,” said Marsalis. He turns 55 this year.

Despite his moaning about the weather and his need for a new knee, Marsalis pitched a perfect performance, kicking off the new

year’s Celebrity Series of Boston concert series.

Long known for his ability to play across the broad expanse of the jazz genre, Marsalis traversed the blues, swing, avant garde and soulful ballads — elating his listeners and putting on display his expansive command of contemporary jazz.

The set began with A Mighty Sword, a meandering, spritely tune that plows along with bright be-bop colors, featuring the quartet’s capacity at swing and high-velocity improvisation. Joey Calderazzo, who has replaced the quartet’s mainstay Kenny Kirkland, on piano provided intensity which often lifted him from his seat, seasoning the group, at times, with pointed musical ideas.

Rudy Royston on drums proved up to all the history and understanding Marsalis brings to the performance. Royston’s technique is clear. Like Marsalis’ longtime drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts Royston plays toward improvised interpretation and percussive leadership.

In Dancing Cheek to Cheek, a 1935 song written by Irvin Berlin for the Fred Astaire and Ginger

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Branford Marsalis and his ensemble Rogers movie Top Hat, Royston provided a saucy introduction that allowed the band to groove and then swiftly shift into flights of embellishments that often referenced highflying Charlie Parker solos or the post-bop Miles Davis Quintet. Miles Smiles and Nefertiti, are among the roots that anchor Branford Marsalis’ muscular,

contemporary sound.

Russell Hall, 20, on bass, provided the performance with stability on the strings. Hall was particularly splendid in the quartet’s final number, St. James Infirmary, an early New Orleans jazz piece made famous by Louis Armstrong in a 1928 recording.

Hall’s contribution is deliberately

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lazy, yet resolute. His jazz career is brimming.

Despite the icy tones outside, the house at the Sanders was warm and full. Marsalis may have been in a foul mood. But all that attitude melted as he ushered his audience into a listening event that featured his elite talent in its top form.

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Berklee honors the message and work of Dr. King Chuck D gives keynote speech In his keynote he also discussed how arts and sports have not been on an even playing field in the U.S. for some time now.

“The jockocracy of the U.S.A. has deemphasized artistic expression of where we are today,” he said.

The event also included Wayne Dozier, the grandfather of Danroy “DJ” Henry, Jr., a young African American and athlete from Easton, Massachusetts who was shot and killed by a New York police officer in 2010 while attending Pace University.

Dozier was visibly moved to be asked to participate in the celebration. He talked a little bit about the circumstances of his grandson’s death and the DJ Henry Dream Fund created as a way “to help other kids achieve their athletic dreams.” According to Dozier, the Dream Fund has given away $750,000 since it was created after Henry’s death.

In addition to Dozier, the event included Berklee faculty members Matt Jenson, Omar Thomas,

By COLETTE GREENSTEIN

On Friday, Jan. 23, Berklee College of Music kicked off its 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration with a keynote presentation from Chuck D of the seminal hiphop group Public Enemy.

The event was part of a weeklong tribute honoring King, his work and his message. The event focused on intersectionality in society, which the college defined as “the study of intersections between forms or systems of oppression, domination or discrimination.”

Berklee President Roger Brown opened up the evening by saying, “As always, music says things better than any other way.”

And, so it was quite fitting that Chuck D, a musician, hip-hop artist and activist was the keynote presenter. He touched upon how music is everywhere and that it’s a universal language and that Berklee is “that place to nurture the muse within.”

PHOTOS BY DAVE GREEN

Above, Panelists from Berklee’s 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. (l-r): Carolyn Wilkins, Chuck D, Matt Jenson, Thulani DeMarsay, Nadine Taylor-Miller, Janicanne Shane. Below, (l-r): Larry Simpson, Berklee College of Music senior vice president for academic affairs/provost; Chuck D; Roger H. Brown, Berklee College of Music president. and Carolyn Wilkins and staff member Janicanne Shane as panelists, who shared their thoughts on police brutality, environmental justice, gender equality, and LGBTQIA civil rights.

The week also included a variety of concerts, discussions, lectures and “opportunities for action,” and culminated on Friday, Jan. 30 with a celebration of music by vocalist Valerie Stephens, who performed excerpts from Nina Simone: Her Music and Her Times, and the tribute band Forever Ray, who performed the music of Ray Charles.

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veryone needs a dish that can be served to company as well as to the family for supper. This lasagna, made with no-boil pasta, can be that dish.

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Lasagna with Spinach and Mushrooms Serves 8 Vegetables: n 2 tablespoons olive oil n 1 1/2 cups diced carrot n 1 cup diced onion n 1 (8-ounce) package sliced mushrooms n 1/2 teaspoon salt n 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper n 2 (10-ounce) packages frozen chopped spinach, thawed and drained Sauce: n 1/4 cup butter n 1/4 cup all-purpose flour n 3 cups 2-percent reduced-fat milk n 1/2 teaspoon salt n 1/8 teaspoon black pepper n 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg n 1 cup jarred tomato sauce with basil n 1 cup part-skim ricotta cheese n 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano cheese n 9 no-boil lasagna noodles n 1 1/2 cups shredded provolone cheese 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Coat a 13-by-9-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

2. To prepare vegetables, heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add carrot, onion, mushrooms, salt and pepper.

Cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 8 minutes.

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Remove from heat and stir in tomato sauce, ricotta and Parmigiano Reggiano.

4. Spread about 2/3 cup sauce in bottom of pan. Arrange 3 noodles over top. Top with half the mushroom mixture, half the spinach and half the remaining sauce. Repeat layers, ending with sauce.

5. Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes.

Remove foil, sprinkle with provolone and bake 15 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

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THURSDAY FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS First Thursday Documentary Films, Central Square Cambridge Library, 45 Pearl St., Cambridge. Thursday February 5, 6:45-9pm. In Honor of Black History Month: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners. An Inspiring docudrama that takes a gripping look at the historical incidents that created an International movement to free activist Angela Davis. “For more than four decades the world renowned author, activist and scholar Angela Davis has been one of the most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970’s black liberation movement, Davis’ work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements across several generations.” From Democracy Now, March 6, 2014. Parking nearby Municipal garage on Green Street. Sponsored by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Light refreshments will be served.

A TALE OF TWO PLANTATIONS Author’s Talk — Richard S. Dunn: Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Pennsylvania — A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia. Forty years ago, after publication of his pathbreaking book Sugar and Slaves, Richard Dunn began an intensive investigation of two thousand slaves living on two plantations, one in North America and one in the Caribbean. Digging deeply into the archives, he has reconstructed the individual lives and collective experiences of three generations of slaves on the Mesopotamia sugar estate in Jamaica and the Mount Airy plantation in tidewater Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery could take. Dunn’s stunning achievement is a rich and compelling history of bondage in two very different Atlantic world settings.

Thursday, February 5, 4pm, Harvard Faculty Club, Theatre Room, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge. Free and open to the public.

UBIQUITOUS Simmons College presents Ubiquitous, a mixed media installation of work by Michelle Lougee, from Through March 5 at the Trustman Art Gallery, located on the fourth floor, Main College Building, 300 the Fenway in Boston. A reception from 5-7pm will be held on Thursday, February 5. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. Trustman Art Gallery hours are 10am - 4:30pm, Monday through Friday.

The Gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact Marcia Lomedico at 617-521-2268, or visit our website at www.simmons.edu/trustman and like us on Facebook.

FRIDAY OUSMANE SEMBENE’S BLACK GIRL (LA NOIRE DE...)

ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage announcing a special free screening of Ousmane Sembene’s BLACK GIRL (La Noire De...). 8pm Introduction by Dr. Samba Gadjigo and Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins,

8:10pm Black Girl Film Screening (65 min), 9:15pm Q & A with Dr. Samba Gadjigo and Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins. Emerson/Paramount Center’s Bright Family Screening Room, 559 Washington St, Boston, Friday, February 6 at 8pm. Admission is free with reservation by calling 617-824-8400.

Snow date: Friday, February 13. For more information visit www.artsemerson.org.

SUNDAY BORDERLAND STATE PARK Easy walk, 3 miles. Along the Pond Walk Trail that loops around Leech Pond. Meet at Borderland State Park Visitor Center at 259.

Massapoag Avenue in North Easton. $2 per car parking fee. Sunday, February 8, 1 pm. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 1:00 for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. Occasionally, the Walking Club meets at other DCR sites. Some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SUNDAY FILM SERIES The Board of the Edward L. Cooper Community Gardening & Education Center, 34 Linwood St., Roxbury invites you to join us for our Black History Month Sunday Film Series: February 8 — Get on The Bus and February 22 — The Tuskegee Airmen. Both films will start at 3pm. We will be serving a light supper followed by a discussion, led by Lee Farrow of the Cooper Board, talking about the relevance of these films today. These events are free of charge and open to the public.

MONDAY BLACK LIVES MATTER: NOW WHAT?!

Postponed 1/28 event: New England Blacks in Philanthropy (NEBIP), created to inform, reform and transform the practice of philanthropy in Black communities, will hold the forum, Black Lives Matter: Now What?!, on February 9, 6pm, at the Freedom House, 5 Crawford St. in Dorchester. The panel, led by Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree, will provide a deeper understanding of the current civil rights and Black Lives Matter movements and what needs to change to reflect that Black Lives do Indeed Matter. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 617-261-8555 or email rgibson@nebip.org.

UPCOMING CHANNEL/DANCE: AN EVENING OF MOVEMENT, ART AND THEATER The CHANNEL/DANCE collaboration falls on both Friday the 13th and Valentine’s Day, which bodes well for good luck and very

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7

THE SAM CORNISH PROJECT: AN APRON FULL OF BEANS

Join our celebration of Black History Month at First Parish of Lexington Unitarian Universealist!

“The Sam Cornish Project: An Apron Full of Beans” is an hour-long performance on Saturday February 7 at 2pm in the Parish Hall. Boston’s former Poet Laureate Sam Cornish joins forces with Roxbury Repertory Theater to create a moving performance piece from selected poems and prose. Gathered from his collection “An Apron Full of Beans,” Cornish’s eloquent and witty words are set to movement and music. The poetry touches on voices past and addresses the poet’s thoughts on family, race, music, and civil rights among other topics. Woven together as echoes of ancestors and experiences, “Apron” is a thought-provoking quilt that gives a glimpse of African-American experiences as told through a multi-racial, multi-generational cast of professional actors and musicians. Tickets are $10 at the door. For more information or reservations, please call 617-541-7465. congenial vibes between Fort Point Theatre Channel and Contrapose Dance. Ten of Boston’s adventurous choreographers team up with painters, photographers, playwrights, and other artists to create short movement works with imaginative and far-reaching visual and audio impact.

Add the ingredients of a half-dozen of the briefest of movement-themed plays, and the result is an invigorating performance experience that delights with its unpredictable twists and turns. Co-presented by Fort Point Theatre Channel and Contrapose Dance. Performances run Friday, February 13, & Saturday, February 14, at 8pm. Free and open to all; due to limited seating, reserving advance tickets recommended. Waterfront Square@Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., Boston. For general information, www.fortpointtheatre channel.org, 617-750-8900; for advance tickets, call 800-838-3006 or visit www. brownpapertickets.com/event/1068967.

YOUNG ARTISTS: ARTWORK

BY CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS The Multicultural Arts Center presents YOUNG ARTISTS on view February 16 - March 27, in the Upper and Lower Galleries, exhibiting works by Cambridge Public School Students. The students participating in the exhibition range from grades K-12 and reflect a multitude of backgrounds. The show is a true example of the creativity and imagination from the Cambridge Public School Students and the immense young talent that we have in our backyard. In both galleries you will see a variety of different mediums used including graphite drawings, collage, watercolors, and ink washes (just to name a few). FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm.

Location: we are located at 41 Second St., Cambridge, one block from Green Line Lechmere station and walking distance from Red Line Kendall/MIT station. Parking: on-street or available at the Spring Street Garage — one block away. Multicultural Arts Center is Handicap accessible. www. multiculturalartscenter.org.

WALLS OF STONE: THE LEVERETT STREET JAIL All but forgotten in the narratives of Boston and the West End, the Leverett Street Jail has an important story that merits examination and remembrance. From February 17 - April 18, a new exhibit in the Members Gallery of The West End Museum — Walls of Stone: The Leverett Street Jail — reveals a notable and

controversial history. The show reception takes place on Saturday, February 21 from 4-6pm, when attendees can tour the exhibit and enjoy light refreshments. The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The West End Museum is dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the history and culture of the West End neighborhood. The Museum’s permanent exhibit, “The Last Tenement,” highlights the immigrant history of the neighborhood through its decimation under Urban Renewal in 1959; two additional galleries feature rotating exhibits. The Museum is located near North Station at 150 Staniford St., Suite 7. Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12-5pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm.

Admission is free.

shows you how to take your career to the next level by exploring area employers, training opportunities, what to do if you have a CORI, and more. Saturday, March 21, 2pm and 3pm. Session 1 takes place at 2pm and Session 2 begins at 3pm Each session covers the same information. Registration is required.

RSVP for your preferred session by phone (617-298-9218), email (jidakaar@bpl. org), or online registration form (http:// bit.ly/newyearyourcareer). Refreshments will be served. Mattapan Branch of the Boston Public Library, 1350 Blue Hill Ave. www.bpl.org.

CHILDREN’S WINTER FESTIVAL

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Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department invite families to the Franklin Park Golf Course Clubhouse for the Children’s Winter Festival on Thursday, February 19, from 10am - 12:30pm. The lineup includes a New England Aquarium tadpole exhibit, Science on the Street tabletop experiments including the Edgerton Strobe Machine and the Augmented Reality Sandbox, an artifact display hosted by the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and City of Boston Archaeologist Joe Bagley, Boston Nature Center scavenger hunt and nature hike, taxidermy wildlife and live horse demonstration with the Boston Park Rangers, children’s fitness with Troops for Fitness, and other activities hosted by iRobot, Science from Scientists, and Zoo New England.

The festival will also feature Rosalita’s Puppets, winter arts and crafts, balloon animals, and refreshments provided by New England Coffee. In addition, the L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery School will present their Snowshoeing Discovery Course, a fun and easy way to try out the sport with expert instructors who will lead an easy guided trek through Franklin Park. Snowshoes will be provided along with sleds for sledding. Participants should wear weather-appropriate clothing and winter or hiking boots. Free parking is available at the clubhouse parking lot located at One Circuit Drive in Franklin Park. For more information, please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-4505, visit www. cityofboston.gov/parks or go to www. facebook.com/bostonparksdepartment.

NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: YOUR CAREER Employment expert Hakim Cunningham of Cunningham Consulting Services

STAR GAZING AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:309:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.

FREE ADULT COMPUTER CLASSES Times: Monday & Wednesday - 12:302:30pm and 6-8pm, Tuesday & Thursday - 12:30-2:30pm and 6:30-8:30pm. For more information contact: Owen Corbin at 617-635-5213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

SHELBURNE COMMUNITY CENTER TEEN PROGRAM: “FREE” for teens ages 13 to 17 years old.

Homework Assistant, Computer Classes, Rock Wall Climbing, Field Trips, Sports and Recreation and much more. Hours: Monday - Thursday 2:30-7pm, Fridays 2:30-9pm. For more information contact: Ricky Lambright or Tomeka Hall at 617635-5213. The John Shelburne Community Center is located at: 2730 Washington St., Roxbury.

The Community Calendar has been established to list community events at no cost. The admission cost of events must not exceed $10. Church services and recruitment requests will not be published. THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OF PUBLICATION. To guarantee publication with a paid advertisement please call advertising at (617) 261-4600 ext. 7799 or email ads@bannerpub.com. NO LISTINGS ARE ACCEPTED BY TELEPHONE, FAX OR MAIL. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE. Deadline for all listings is Friday at noon for publication the following week. E-MAIL your information to: calendar@bannerpub.com. To list your event online please go to www.baystatebanner.com/ events and list your event directly. Events listed in print are not added to the online events page by Banner staff members. There are no ticket cost restrictions for the online postings.

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS PHOTOS FROM THE BANNER ARCHIVES

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BLACKHISTORY THE BANNER CELEBRATES 50 YEARS: PHOTOS FROM THE BANNER ARCHIVE

Banner has recorded 50 years of history Banner scribes, photographers record the first draft of Boston’s black history

By BRIAN WRIGHT O’CONNOR

The year 2015 marks 50 years of publication for the Bay State Banner — a half century during which the newspaper’s reporters, photographers and contributors recorded the events and ideas that have made history in Boston and beyond.

It’s been a long and remarkable journey for the Banner, since publisher Melvin Miller first opened the Banner’s doors, stepping into the shoes of William Monroe Trotter and other black publishers who blazed the trail in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The year was 1965, ten years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott started a peaceful revolution against American apartheid.

It was the year of the Freedom March from Selma and the bloody confrontation at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was the year of Malcolm X’s assassination and the passage of the Voting Rights Act

by Congress.

Despite gains on the national front, here in Boston the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make America redeem its promissory note of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was still just a dream.

In Roxbury, schoolchildren pondered the lesson of “All men are

created equal” from tattered textbooks, in segregated classrooms, in buildings leaking heat and hope.

A renaissance in the New Boston brought massive development to the old precincts around Beacon Hill while slum housing conditions in the black community were exacerbated by policies steering the poor, the black poor, to increasingly concentrated pockets of subsidized tenements.

The black population of Boston pushed to end a system of two Americas, separate and unequal, in their housing and schools and carried a message of change to the leaders of the city and the state. But, for the first time in a century, there was no messenger. The activist tradition of the African American press, personified in Boston by William Monroe Trotter and The Guardian, had died with the last issue of his newspaper.

As the state legislature grappled with the Racial Imbalance Law on Beacon Hill, there was no black press to record the struggle, no voice from the community to distill the events from the perspective of the people most affected by the inactions of the “Great and General Court.” On September 25, 1965, the Bay State Banner stepped in to fill that void and provide the African American community with a written focal point.

The paper was the brainchild

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Bay State Banner Publisher and Founder Melvin B. Miller (center) receives an award from community luminaries. of Melvin B. Miller, who intended to continue his practice as an assistant United States attorney while publishing the paper as his contribution to the social movement for change. The issues emblazoned across the headlines of the inaugural broadsheet are as immediate and familiar as family memory. “What’s Wrong With Our Schools?” was the aching question

printed under the logo. The wornour Gibson School in Dorchester, serving an all-black student population, appeared in a photograph next to an image of the newly-opened Henry Grew School in predominantly white Hyde Park.

Atop the paper, “Whittier St. project — Interview With Despair” ran across eight columns.

Another headline, “Lilly Co.

Accused of Discrimination at Roxbury Urban Renewal Site” reported on worksite bias the same week President Johnson signed Executive Order No. 11246, making affirmative action the cornerstone of the federal government’s hiring and contract policies toward blacks.

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Celebrating Black History Month Recognizing remarkable achievements.

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continued from page B8 But mixed in with reports cataloging these shameful disparities were signs that the era of the Boston Radicals was far from over.

“Multiple Service Ctr To Open In Roxbury” and “Parent Group Expands ‘Exodus’” chronicled the initiatives of black citizens to seize control of their community.

In the best tradition of Trotter and his followers, who earlier in the century had thrown down the gauntlet of Northern resistance to the accommodationist policies of Booker T. Washington, Boston’s African American leaders were actively engaged in finding solutions to the problems besetting their community.

Operation Exodus was a particularly powerful example of self-empowerment driven by the need for change. Frustrated by the Boston School Committee’s repeated failures to respond to de facto segregation, the Exodus leaders transported black children from the neighborhoods of Roxbury and Dorchester to less crowded schools in other parts of the city.

The movement, which paved the way for the formation of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) regional school busing program, was just one of many struggles in the march against the status quo on Court Street.

And, along each step of the way, the Bay State Banner was there to record the setbacks and progress. In the edition of November 19, 1965, the newspaper reported on an effort

by the Congress of Racial Equality to force commercial enterprises in Grove Hall and Dudley Square to hire more community residents.

The April 4, 1968 Banner, published the day of Dr. King’s assassination, reported on the opening of the black-owned Unity Bank and Trust Company in a Warren Street building designed by black architect Donald Stull.

On the political front, the paper followed the career of Edward W. Brooke, the Roxbury Republican who became the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction.

Paths of justice

The paper chronicled the rise of attorney. Thomas I. Atkins as the 1967 municipal elections made him the first black to sit on the Boston City Council in 16 years.

The same year, state Rep. Franklin Holgate made the first formal move toward the creation of a predominantly black state Senate district, ending the practice of “cracking” black voting strength into several districts. “The time has come for the first black state senator in Massachusetts history,” proclaimed a Banner editorial on June 18, 1970. “If the Legislature cannot provide the opportunity, then the courts will have to.” Under the pressure of court scrutiny, Beacon Hill acceded to the tide of history, and in 1974 Rep. Bill Owens was elected to the Senate seat created by agitation for electoral empowerment.

In 1972, U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. refused to dismiss the Boston NAACPs

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Protests, like the one shown in this 1972 photo, and social movements have long been a staple of Banner media coverage. comprehensive school desegregation suit, clearing the way for the historic decision that the leaders of public education in the Athens of America had not only tolerated but promoted a system of segregation. A year later, Roxbury Community College opened its doors at a former car dealership on Blue Hill Avenue.

As a repository of community history, the Banner covered with avid interest the formation of the Museum of Afro-American

History and its 1971 acquisition of the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill. The paper also covered, and cosponsored, the Boston Afro American Artists Association’s first “Sunday in the Park” outdoor exhibition in 1966.

These are institutions whose activities have appeared frequently in the Banner’s news pages over the last three decades. It is a testament to the cultural vitality of black Boston, as well as to the perseverance of their leaders to work through the obstacles to survival.

Survival - that’s a theme familiar to the Bay State Banner. What began as essentially a philanthropic sideline quickly became a fulltime obsession for the Banner publisher.

The paper’s fight to secure a fair share of advertising from major corporations demanded a tremendous amount of time.

Melvin B. Miller looked at his law practice, looked at the paper and made his choice. He resigned from the U.S. Attorney’s office and moved fulltime into the chair of editor and publisher at the Banner’s headquarters on Ruggles St. in the Dudley Square area.

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At one point, Mel Miller was hustling up and copy, editing articles and even selling the paper on the streets. John J. Miller, the publisher’s father, was perplexed by his son’s choice of work — from Boston Latin School, Harvard College and Columbia Law School to news-hawker.

After Mel dropped by his father’s house one evening after selling papers on Warren Street, the baronial patriarch took a look at his son’s ink-stained hands.

“Do you enjoy this work?” he asked.

Mel shook his head no. “And are you making money at this?”

Again Mel shook his head.

“Then why don’t you do something you don’t like that at least pays more?”

The truth of the matter is that no one likes financial pressure and no one likes deadlines. But a paper can’t survive without handling both.

Except for a brief publishing hiatus after the end of its first year and another in 2009, the Banner has juggled the financial and editorial strains of running a community newspaper week in and week

out for over 2,500 issues.

The Banner was there when school desegregation was implemented beneath a hailstone of rocks and bottles in 1974. The paper was there when urban renewal came to Roxbury. It was there when Edward Brooke was defeated in the 1978 Senate fight, ending black representation in the upper chamber of the Congress until Carol Mosely Braun’s ascension in 1992.

The Banner covered the election of the late John D. O’Bryant to the Boston School Committee in 1977 and his rise to the presidency of the 13-member body after district representation was ushered in for the school board and city council in 1983.

The Banner followed the acquisition of WNAC-TV by a group of investors from the New England Television Corporation, making the rechristened WNEV-TV the first minority-owned network affiliate in the country.

The Banner covered the landmark 1983 election, when state Rep Melvin H. King became the first black mayoral finalist in Boston history.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson’s presidential bids in 1984 and 1988 were followed avidly in the Banner’s news pages, along with the late Boston City Councilor Bruce C. Bolling’s two-term tenure as president of the city’s legislative body and his own run for mayor in 1993.

The Banner followed the demise of the elected Boston School Committee and has reported on the unfolding debate in America on affirmative action.

The Banner’s coverage followed Boston’s transition from a city with a small black minority population with deep racial divisions to its current status as a majority-minority city where black, Latino and Asian politicians and community activists work together for a more inclusive future. Major milestones included the 1988 election of the first Latino to the state Legislature, Nelson Merced; the state’s first black district attorney, Ralph Martin, appointed in 1992; the 2004 election of Felix D. Arroyo, the first Latino on the City Council; and the state’s first black Governor, Deval Patrick, who served from 2007 to 2015.

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BLACKHISTORY THE BANNER CELEBRATES 50 YEARS: PHOTOS FROM THE BANNER ARCHIVE And the Banner bore witness to the election of the first black president in U.S. history, Barak Obama, elected in 2008.

The enormous dedication needed to cover events with timely and accurate reporting has at times put the Banner itself at the center of the story.

In 1967, a demonstration by welfare mothers in Grove Hall erupted into violence when police stormed the Department of Public Welfare building on Blue Hill Avenue and began clubbing demonstrators. The lead headline in the next edition, “Police Riot in Grove Hall,” represented a radical departure from the police department’s version of events, resulting in an investigation of the incident. The tough love rhetoric of the Banner publisher at times has rankled readers in the community as well as subscribers in the halls of power. When Mel Miller applauded Dr. King for speaking out against the war in Vietnam and chided the Nobel laureate’s critics in the NAACP and the Urban League, the Banner lost subscribers. When Mel Miller, in the wake of the passage of civil rights legislation, urged community leaders

to forsake the politics of protest and concentrate their attention on building an economic foundation, the Banner came under fire.

When Miller endorsed progressive School Committeeman David Finnegan over Mel King in the 1983 mayorial race, arguing that Finnegan had the best chance of winning and carrying the interests of the black community into City Hall, the Banner got picketed.

But for each of the controversial stories or editorials, there have been thousands of others paying quieter respect to the needs of the community for information, perspective and balance.

These stories — on business openings, protests, funerals, church plays, elections and the countless other notes in the rhythm of community life — have been produced over the years by hundreds of Banner employees, many of whom got their start in the news business at the Banner, Along the way, Banner reporters and editors have used their training to go on to jobs with ABC News, National Public Radio, the New York Times, Wired Magazine and a thousand other places — all of them carrying the legacy of hard

work and hard-news reporting.

In the meantime, the Banner remains very much an extended family, the tradition carried on in its tabloid pages by younger members of the Miller family and the paper’s staff.

History’s mirror

Over the last 50 years, the Banner has paused at five-year increments to reflect on its progress. And at each stage, one theme remains consistent: the Bay State Banner’s absolute dedication to holding up the mirror of history to the community.

“An understanding of history is essential to enable blacks to refute the uncomplimentary black

The legacy of Boston’s black community is a legacy of self-empowerment. No matter what the obstacles — the setbacks at the polling stations or the painful steps to economic revitalization — the African American population of Boston has never shied away from a challenge.

Through the last 50 years, the Bay State Banner has been there to record each step.

“One cannot live in Boston without stepping into the city’s stream of history,” wrote Miller in one editorial. “By some mysterious alchemy, those who dwell here soon become Bostonians, and they become a part of the city’s glorious past.”

stereotype which is perpetuated by the media and which is believed by many whites,” wrote Mel Miller on the occasion of the Banner’s 20th anniversary.

“A knowledge of history is the only effective countermeasure,” he added. “Just think of slaves in 18th century Boston, going to court to sue for their freedom. Just visualize a handful of free blacks in Boston at the turn of the 19th century, rejecting the indignities heaped upon them by whites and establishing their own churches and school. Take pride in the efforts of Boston blacks to rescue runaway slaves and to provide leadership for the antislavery movement.”

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