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Blacks, Latinos split support between Connolly, Walsh Yawu Miller The mad dash that’s taken candidates John Connolly and Marty Walsh to seemingly every corner of the city has given Boston res-
idents multiple opportunities to meet them. And Ron Armstead has met both. But like some in Boston’s black community, Armstead still hasn’t made up his mind.
City Councilor John Connolly greets businessman Clayton Turnbull at a recent campaign event. (photo courtesy of the Connolly campaign)
Standing outside the VFW Post on Morton Street in Dorchester, Armstead has just digested an hour’s worth of Walsh’s agenda for providing better services and better opportunities to veterans. Earlier that evening at an NAACP Boston Branch meeting, he heard City Councilor Tito Jackson extolling Walsh’s virtues. And Connolly, who has been equally aggressive in pursuing the black vote, also appeals to Armstead. “There’s something that can be said for a guy who’s got his kid in a school two blocks from my house,” says the Vietnam vet, referring to the Trotter School, which Connolly’s daughter attends. Still, Armstead hasn’t made up his mind. He’s too preoccupied with what happened, and what didn’t happen in the September preliminary. “I’m still suffering from the fact that we haven’t figured out how to win the mayor’s seat in a city where we’re majority people of color,” he says. Armstead’s split feelings are indicative of where black and Latino voters are at in the mayor’s race — divided between both candidates, with one poll showing Connolly maintaining a 10-point lead among blacks.
State Rep. Marty Walsh greets Louis Elisa outside the Reggie Lewis Track before a mayoral debate last week. (Photo courtesy of the Walsh campaign) This may well be the first race in recent history where black voters have not lined up solidly behind one candidate — like Menino who consistently received more than 80 percent of the black vote or Mel King, who received more than 90 percent.
The split support is not limited to people of color. The Boston Globe reported Monday that Connolly’s own internal polling shows a statistical dead heat between the two candidates. Connolly supporters in the black and Latino communities cite his commitment to school reform and small business development and his
willingness to work on constituent issues in their neighborhoods. “He’s been known to folks in the black community,” says social worker and political activist Dan Janey, who lives in Roxbury. “A lot of folks in Roxbury vote more on personal interaction. Connolly’s been in the community for different events. His daughter is at the Trotter School, so he’s interacted with a lot of parents.” Walsh’s supporters, too, cite long-term relationships and the Dorchester representative’s commitment to progressive causes. Those relationships in part have earned him endorsements from mayor, continued to page 21
Quincy Street Corridor gets $100m investment Martin Desmarais Over a few short blocks of Quincy St. in Dorchester, beginning on Blue Hill Ave. and heading east to Columbia Rd., a push to revitalize the area is on full display
Quincy Heights project, which will rehabilitate nine former public housing buildings and construct two new buildings to create new affordable housing units in two phases. The proposal is for 80 new affordable housing units in the first
“I think it should be a lesson for other communities around the country — you can revitalize neighborhoods to the benefit of the current residents.” — Aaron Gornstein with four major projects spread out on both sides of the street and close to $100 million designated for investment. At the heart of the work is the
phase and 49 new affordable housing units in the second phase. The $56 million budget of the project includes $3 million for increased social services in the surround-
ing community and $3 million for community developments around Quincy Heights. The project is a culmination of six years of work by Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp., Quincy Geneva Development Corp., United Housing Management, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Project RIGHT. Construction on the development started this summer and is expected to finish in December 2014. Dorchester Bay EDC is also taking the lead on another development project on Quincy St. — the $14.5 million Pearl Small Business Food Production Center, which will help startups and small food businesses get off the ground. CropCircle Kitchen Inc. is leading the renovation of the 36,000-squareQuincy St., continued to page 12
Jorge Martinez, executive director of Project RIGHT, speaks during the visit of Mayor Thomas Menino, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and Massachusetts Housing Undersecretary Aaron Gornstein to the sites of the development currently underway along Quincy St. in Dorchester. (Photo courtesy of The Mayor’s Office)
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At-Large Candidates Ayanna Pressley Pressley has served on the council since 2009. She is the first woman of color to serve in the history of the City Council. She formed and chairs the Committee on Women & Healthy Communities. The committee is devoted to the causes that she has always been most devoted to: stabilizing families and communities, reducing and preventing violence and trauma, and combating poverty. She also serves as the chair of the Arts, Film, Humanities & Tourism Committee as well as the vice chair of the Public Safety Committee.
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Michael Flaherty
Flaherty served on the council for 10 years prior from 2000 to 2010. He served as City Council vice president in 2001 and president from 2002 to 2006. He has served as a Suffolk County prosecutor and attorney in private practice and also previously ran for mayor of Boston. He has focused efforts on areas including environmental legislation, new technology programs, education, public health and public safety.
Stephen John Murphy
Murphy was elected to office as an at-large member of the council in 1997. In January, Murphy was unanimously elected by his council colleagues to lead the council as its president for an unprecedented third term. Since his election, he has chaired many of the council’s committees including Committee on Public Safety, Ways & Means,
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Government Operations and Labor. He is credited with always successfully shepherding the city’s $2.4 billion budget through the budget process.
Michelle Wu
Though Wu has never held political office, she is vying to become the first Asian-American woman elected to citywide office in Boston history with her bid for council. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she has worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Elizabeth Warren. She directed the Warren campaign’s statewide outreach effort to communities of color throughout all of Boston’s neighborhoods. She has also worked in the administration of Mayor Thomas Menino, helping create the city’s food truck program and working to streamline the process for permitting the trucks and restaurants.
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Martin J. Keogh
A graduate of Boston College and the Massachusetts School of Law, Keogh is attorney and his practice focuses on public service and working with those who have trouble affording a lawyer in foreclosure cases and juvenile issues. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he worked in the council office with former at-large Councilor Peggy Davis-Mullen for 10 years.
Annissa Essaibi George
A first generation American, born to a Tunisian father and Polish mother, Essaibi George is a teacher at East Boston High School. She is a Massachusetts Certified Teacher in Secondary Education in political science/political philosophy. She has taught economics, business management (as part of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship) and health and human services to juniors and seniors.
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Kelly has worked as a union ironworker and for Mayor Thomas Menino as a community liaison to Charlestown. He has also worked with Mass General Hospital to develop programs to reduce the rates of Hepatitis C, HIV, and sexually transmitted infections among at-risk populations. He is dedicated to helping those who are struggling with or recovering from addictions.
Jeffrey Michael Ross
Ross is a bilingual immigration attorney and human rights advocate. He has his own law firm and represents at-risk women, families and immigrants on issues that include domestic violence, human trafficking, housing, health care and mental health services. He served as a volunteer for the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
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Union claims against John Connolly not rooted in historical reality Fifty years ago, Americans suffered the anguish of communal grief. On Nov. 22, 1963 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. He died too young to implement the unique vision he had for America. Nonetheless, JFK ignited the spirit of equality in the nation, and he was beloved even though he was from a privileged family. JFK was a scion of the most prominent Irish American family of that time. His grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, was elected mayor of Boston in 1906 and he opened the door for Irish political advancement. JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, graduated from Boston Latin School and Harvard University. After becoming a millionaire investor, he turned to public service. Kennedy became President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He later became U.S. ambassador to Great Britain. Joseph Kennedy had three sons who became involved in public service — John (JFK), Robert and Edward (Ted). All three followed the same educa-
tional path — private prep school and then a degree from Harvard. They all met the standard imposed by the anti-Connolly union literature as “sons of privilege.” The only difference is that when compared to the Kennedys, John Connolly is not from “a wealthy political family.” One wonders whether the Kennedys would pass muster with the unions opposing Connolly. Political campaigns are by nature combative events. Extreme statements are expected, but there must always be some connection to the truth. It is simply false to assert that academic achievement and affluence will necessarily induce a political candidate to be insensitive to issues of importance to working-class families. The historical record of the Kennedys proves that. In order to attack Connolly as too privileged the unions would also have to renounce the great contributions of the Kennedy family. These days, Boston voters are too sophisticated to be so easily misled.
The BASE: Essential for blacks to play ball The World Series is always exciting. It establishes the championship team in “America’s game.” When your hometown team is competing it is difficult to avoid being emotionally involved. However, now that few blacks are competing in the sport, the interest of African Americans is more subdued than in the old days. Prior to 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, there were black teams playing in Negro Leagues. The Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis was opposed to black players on white teams and he even opposed white teams playing blacks in the off season. With Landis’ death in 1944, his successor Happy Chandler permitted black players in major league baseball, but no black teams were admitted to the MLB. MLB teams hired black players away for less than
they had to pay whites. The loss of top talent eventually contributed to the demise of Negro League baseball. This is another example of how racial integration led to the loss of black institutions. Now with so many black athletes choosing football and basketball over baseball, the number of black players in the game is declining. According to a recent report only one African American player is involved in the present World Series. There are several Latinos. Robert Lewis has launched an organization in Boston called The BASE, to train young urban athletes in the skills that will enable them to compete in baseball at a high level. The BASE will also motivate the boys to become academically proficient. It is hoped that the success of this program will see players with the talent of Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson and Ernie Banks return to the game.
While you are raising the controversial history of the Redskins’ founding owner with regard to black players, wouldn’t it add a bit of balance to link to another story in your paper about a positive bit of Redskins’ history: Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl? George Preston Marshall is not the end of the story when it comes to the Redskins. Also, if Marshall was a racist — which he certainly was when it came to African-Americans — what does that have to do with the appropriateness of the word Redskin, which at the time the team name was chosen was in wide use simply as a synonym for American Indian? Certainly Marshall was a segregationist when it came to blacks, but his views on race apparently did not extend to American Indians — at least four of whom were on the first team in Boston. There have been questions
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Opinion Higher learning, lower funding Michael Curry
Higher education is vital to economic prosperity, and it serves as the critical final step for students advancing through our state education system. It is well established that college graduates have much greater earning potential than do those with only a high school diploma. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, African Americans with a bachelor’s degree earn roughly $22,000 more annually than African Americans with just a high school diploma. College is one of the best lifelines out of low wage work and dead end jobs. In addition, college is an important pathway to homeownership, entrepreneurship and longer-term wealth creation — all continued challenges facing African Americans. Recently, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center released a paper entitled “Higher Learning, Lower Funding: The Decline in Support for Higher Education in Massachusetts.” The paper analyzes trends in state funding for higher education over time, compares public higher education spending to other states, and identifies where Massachusetts students come from and where they go after graduation. Despite the important contributions of higher education extending opportunity for everyone, the report finds that there has been a nationwide trend to cut higher education funding. Massachusetts cut contributions to higher education by 31 percent between fiscal years 2001 and 2003. The national average of state reductions during this period was 10 percent. Only six states made greater reductions. The increased cost of higher education because of the cuts imposes an impediment to the economic progression of African Americans. These state cuts in Massachusetts were largely driven by a number of significant changes made to the state tax code beginning in 1998, resulting in less state revenue to invest. These included a series of phased cuts to the state personal income tax. These tax cuts cost roughly $3 billion annually, restricting the state’s ability to fund essential services. Further, the state’s ability to fund programs has been hindered by the fact African Americans that the state’s economy has still with a bachelor’s not recovered from the “Great degree earn roughly Recession” of 2008. As state spending on higher $22,000 more education declined — primarily annually than direct funding for the University African Americans of Massachusetts system, community colleges and state univer- with just a high sities — tuition and fees at public school diploma. institutions increased. Between fiscal year 2004 and fiscal year 2012 state appropriations per full time student declined by $2,291 at UMass, $1,193 at state universities and $1,352 at community colleges (adjusted for inflation). Meanwhile full time tuition and fees rose by an average of $3,684 for UMass students, $2,294 at state universities and $918 at community colleges (adjusted for inflation). Like students across the state, Boston area students have been faced with these higher costs. For example, students at UMass Boston have seen tuition and fees rise by $4,280, the highest increase of all public campuses in Massachusetts between 2004 and 2013 (adjusted for inflation). Further, tuition and fees at Roxbury and Bunker Hill Community Colleges rose by $881 and $506 respectively (adjusted for inflation). As student payments make up an increasingly large share of public university budgets, these institutions risk losing much of their public character. In fact, as late as last year, the chancellor of the UMass system, Robert Caret, while arguing for increased state investment in higher education, warned that cutbacks in state funds put the university system at risk of “becoming private.” Public institutions of higher education primarily educate Massachusetts natives and these young people are more likely to remain in state upon graduation. According to the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study, 72 percent of all students who graduate from Massachusetts public institutions remain in the state for their first year after graduation while only 47 percent of private university graduates stay in Massachusetts. Fortunately, the state did prioritize investments in public higher education for the current school year. This year, the state increased its appropriation to higher education by $86.6 million over last year. While this offsets only a portion of these long term cuts, it is a positive first step toward re-investing in our public system of higher education. Michael Curry is president of the Boston Branch of the NAACP and Chris Gustafson is a Policy Analyst at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center.
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Maddrey Goode
Maddrey Goode, the business services manager for Goodwill’s Boston Career Link, was recently named a 2013 Boston Private Industry Council Achiever. The Private Industry Council is Boston’s workforce investment board and connects the youth and adults of Boston to education and employment opportunities. The “PIC Achievers” exemplify the Private Industry Council’s mission of strengthening Boston’s communities and its workforce, according to the organization. Goode received the award, along with 17 other recipients, at the Private Industry Council’s annual meeting. Boston Career Link is a one-stop career center operated by Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries. It serves more than 9,000 people a year and connects job seekers with companies like Home Depot, Sovereign Bank, Stop & Shop and the TJX Companies. “Maddrey Goode is the face of Boston Career Link to our business partners and organizations who are seeking qualified employees,” said
Paul MacNeil, director of Boston Career Link and vice president of work programs. “He has increased our visibility among employers and made it easier for our members to have access to job opportunities.” According to Goode’s Achiever award: “Maddrey Goode cares about getting people hired. Under his leadership, Boston Career Link
has developed innovations such as the Mass Hiring Events for employers with at least 25 job openings and a commitment to have at least five recruiters onsite to interview job seekers. Maddrey works closely with the BCL Job Seeker Services team to identify individuals who are a good match for his business customers.”
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Contested District Races District 2 Bill Linehan
Linehan was elected to the council in May of 2007. He has served as the chairman of the City of Boston
Economic and Planning Committee and served as the chairman of the Redistricting Committee. Prior to his election, Linehan had served as the director of operations for the City of Boston’s Parks Department and most recently as the special assistant to the chief operating officer of the City of Boston for the past six years. He has been active in politics since his teenage years.
Suzanne Lee
Lee is a community advocate and educator with a long record of reforming public schools. As a principal, she led a high-profile turn-
around of the Baldwin School, transforming a low-achieving and divided school into a nationwide model for reform. She also headed the Josiah Quincy School, which was named one of the top schools in Massachusetts. She is dedicated to working for stronger schools, good jobs and affordable neighborhoods.
District 4 Charles C. Yancey
Yancey was first elected to the council in 1983 and began serving
his 14th term in office in 2010. He is currently dean of the Council, serving longer than any current member of the body. He is chair of the Post Audit & Oversight Committee and vice chair of the City, Neighborhood Services & Veterans Affairs Committee. He is also vice chairman of the Ingersoll Browne Fund. He served as president of the City Council in 2001.
Terrance Williams
Williams has worked for the Boston Water and Sewer Commission for over 25 years and he also worked for the Suffolk County Sheriff Department for just under a decade. His campaign efforts have focused on improving education in the community, working closer with police and supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses.
District 5 Timothy McCarthy
McCarthy has over 20 years of service in a number of Boston departments. He began his career with the city of Boston in the Office of Neighborhood Services. He then served as director of the Boston Youth Fund for 10 years and helped create a nationally recognized web-based registration program, the HOPELINE. Most recently, he works in the Department of Public Works and has led the Big Belly Solar Power trash initiative for the last five years. He is also an elected member of the City of Boston Credit Union.
Jean-Claude Sanon
Sanon is a licensed realtor, has worked as a legal assistant in the law industry and as a coordinator and teacher for the Haitian American Public Health Initiative. He
started his own business in 2005, Avant-Garde, which provides interpretation/translation of immigration, legal and other documents. His focuses include education and health care.
District 7 Tito Jackson
Jackson was elected to the council in November 2011 during a special election. He has worked as a sales and marketing professional, as well as the industry director for information technology at Governor Deval Patrick’s Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development. He chair of the Post Audit and Oversight Committee, and vice chair of the Education Committee. He has focused on economic revitalization.
Roy Owens
Owens has worked as teacher in Boston Public Schools, as a social worker in the Department of Public Welfare and in law enforcement in the Department of Corrections. He is the founder of many community organizations, including the Woodville Neighborhood Association, the Citywide Parents Advisory Council and Save the Children Ministries. He focuses on youth support, public safety and health care.
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Crawford is well known in Boston as a poet, hip-hop artist, community activist and publisher of Blackstonian.com, a newspaper dedicated to Boston’s black community. He started the “Feed the Hood/Feed The People” and “Fill Your Fridge” programs and has worked to promote anti-violence.
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Shifting demographics erode Cambridge pols’ voter base Brian Wright O’Connor As Cambridge City Councilor Kenneth E. Reeves walks down treelined Howard Street in the heart of the historically black neighborhood known as “The Coast,” he points out newly refurbished three-deckers and single-family homes where the occupants are strangers. “Over 20 years ago, when I first ran for office, I knew most everyone on this street,” says the former mayor and veteran councilor. “The core of my support came from neighborhoods like this. I was surrounded by 60-year-old church ladies who have since gone on to nursing homes or the kingdom of heaven.” Scuffling through red and yellow leaves scattered on the narrow sidewalk, Reeves pauses in front of a garishly painted building that once was home to famed Boston boxer Sam Langford, a one-eyed black Nova Scotian who lost a 15-round decision to future heavyweight champion Jack Johnson in 1906. “I have no idea who lives here now,” says Reeves, waving a hand towards the electric yellow siding. “Patrick Ewing grew up around the corner on River Street. W.E.B. DuBois lived on Flagg Street when he studied at Harvard.” Reeves climbs the front stairs to knock on yet another door in a bid for a 13th two-year term on the council. “This neighborhood,” he adds, “has changed.” While Reeves and fellow Afri-
can-American incumbent E. Denise Simmons draw votes from mostly every Cambridge neighborhood in council elections, their base is the city’s black community, which for over a century has been concentrated in the Riverside neighborhood, also known as “The Coast,” roughly bordered by River Street, Massachusetts Avenue, the Harvard campus and the Charles River. Victory for candidates of color doesn’t necessarily depend on racial solidarity — witness Gov. Deval Patrick or President Barack Obama — but in down-ballot races, drawing support from ethnic fellow-travelers is the traditional route to success. The gentrification of Cambridge, which accelerated after the abolition of rent control in 1994, has had a dramatic impact on black voting patterns in the city. The percentage of African-American residents in Cambridge declined by a modest 5 percent between 1990 and 2010 — from about 15 percent to 10 percent. However, many of the new African-American arrivals, replacing long-time black residents who departed to other precincts — heavenly or worldly — are no more likely than other young, more affluent professionals to vote in municipal elections. Candidates like Reeves and Simmons — and Cambridge School Committee member Richard Harding — could once depend on getting the bulk of their coveted number one votes in the quirky system of proportional representation from the city’s
black base, but now must depend on transfer votes to win. Compounding the challenge this year is that more and more candidates — 25 are vying for nine council seats — are chasing fewer and fewer reliable voters, who tend to be older and more set in their choice of who receives their number one vote. According to election results, the average age of a Cambridge voter who has turned out in the last three election cycles is 59. In the 2011 contest, Reeves received 1,013 number one votes on the first round of counting and Simmons 1,266. That was good enough to keep them in play as other candidates with fewer number one votes were eliminated in successive counts. As those candidates’ number one votes were distributed to the voters’ number two choices, Reeves and Simmons stayed alive and were declared winners on the 14th and 13th vote counts respectively. That’s a far cry from 2009, when both Reeves and Simmons won on the first ballot. Cambridge’s population of 105,000 includes an astounding 16,000 new voters who have registered since 2011. With the median price of a single-family home going for $810,850 and an average rent of $3,175 for a three-bedroom apartment, the newbies tend to be wealthier and less likely to vote in city elections than the residents they’re displacing. “All the neighborhoods have
Cambridge City Councilor Kenneth E. Reeves has been in office for over 20 years and has watched the city demographics change. (Brian Wright O’Connor photo) changed a lot since rent control went away,” says Simmons, who was elected to the school board before winning a council seat in 2001. “The older folks of every stripe are being replaced by younger, more affluent voters.” Simmons, who became the first black openly lesbian mayor in the country after her council colleagues elected her to the post, and Reeves, the nation’s first openly black gay mayor, both have appeals beyond the city’s black base and both canvass for support in every neighborhood. But the demographic trends are troubling to those concerned about black representation in a city that thrives on its image for diversity and tolerance. Walking on Callendar Street in the Coast, John — who asks that his last name not be used — pauses to say that he used to live around the corner.
“The owner lived downstairs but she died and her family sold the place. The buyer turned the place into condos,” he says, standing in front of a Pentecostal church facing the Cambridge Community Center – the first in the nation to employ both black and white social workers. “Everyone wants to live here now. It’s close to MIT and Harvard and Boston. I was here most of my life — attended the Western Avenue Baptist Church and sang in the choir. I played hoops with Patrick Ewing. I’m over here visiting my cousin today,” he adds, pointing towards a two-family with a Ken Reeves sign on the porch. “But his landlord is getting on in years. I’m not sure how long he’ll hold on.” John turns the corner onto Howard Street and heads towards Western Avenue. “Maybe he’ll join me in Boston.”
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Connolly, Walsh go toe-to-toe in community of color debate
tell these people that a vote for you is in their interest?” The items up for discussion were economic development and job creation, education and housing. Boston City Councilor at Large John Connolly and state Rep. Marty Walsh each promised an administration more reflective of Boston as a majority-minority city, with the inclusion of more women and people of color as an integral part of their job creation strategy. Both cited the development
terfront, Downtown Crossing, and in Copley. But we need to bring those opportunities to our neighborhoods,” Walsh added. Closing the achievement gap between underachieving students of color and their white peers dominated much of the education conversation. To close the gap, Connolly expressed the need for “a holistic strategy,” one that would start as early as the “prenatal stage when a mom is going to a community health center.”
“We study everything in this city to death, but we need to stop studying and start implementing.” — State Rep. Marty Walsh
Councilor at Large John Connolly and state Rep. Marty Walsh (L-R) listen attentively as moderator Liz Walker guides them through a debate on Oct. 23. (Bryan Trench photo) Shanice Maxwell Crowds of John Connolly and Marty Walsh supporters could be seen and heard blocks away from the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury long before last week’s Oct. 23 forum began. With the Nov. 5 mayoral
election drawing near, nearly 600 people came out to attend the second community of color debate. “This could be the pivotal debate because this community has power. This community is important. This community could make the difference in this race
— and will,” said Rev. Liz Walker, award-winning TV journalist and documentary film producer, who kicked off the debate. To open the debate the candidates were asked: “Last month, 35 percent of voters — more than 39,000 individuals — voted for a candidate of color. How can you
sector and the Boston Redevelopment Authority as two of many areas in dire need of diversity. Pledging that he’d make his administrative cabinet at least half people of color is “the easiest promise I can make,” Connolly said. “And that’s not a quota — the talent is there it’s just being put on the sideline.” Making certain that businesses of color and small business have the resources needed to thrive and excel on an even playing field is also something Connolly said he will focus on. “We have 64 positions of leadership in the city and four people of color,” Walsh said. “That needs to change.” “We need to create business opportunities, not just on the wa-
“Once that baby is born, it’s got to focus on the early literacy piece,” Connolly said. “When you bridge to the school, make sure you’re fully staffed for social emotional support in school.” “We study everything in this city to death, but we need to stop studying and start implementing,” Walsh noted. To implement, Walsh mentioned changing the structure of core classes, creating intensive programming in high school and ensuring all students pass MCAS as a means to moving them closer to graduation, not to push for standardized testing. Using “short- and long-term strategies” all inclusive of the city’s students forum, continued to page 10
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— those college bound and those pursuing careers in trades — to adequately prepare them is a must Walsh also said. Though race and diversity weren’t on the agenda both found it necessary to comment on it; 53 percent of Boston’s residents are of color. Both agreed that inequalities have existed in the city’s communities of color for far too long. “We need to talk more about racism. We need to talk more about institutional, systemic racism and the role it plays in our society,” said Connolly. “Communities of color don’t need to talk about it so much; you live it every day. White Bostonians
need to talk about it. That’s the one thing that Mayor Walsh or Mayor Connolly can get done.” Walsh shared that his many visits to the Boston Redevelopment Authority often resulted in him seeing and interacting with “people in the hallways [who] looked like me.” “We need to change that,” he said. The forum was sponsored by the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, Boston NAACP, UMass Boston, Commonwealth Compact, Coalition of Community Groups, Right to the City, Future Boston, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center, MassVOTE, Boston Neighborhood Network, Families for Justice as Healing, Project Right, Mothers for Justice and Equality, Asian American Resource
Workshop, Boston Workers Alliance, Jack and Jill of America, The Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, Mattapan Square Main Streets and Mattapan United. Most interviewed by The Banner afterwards said they ex-
pected to leave knowing whom they would vote for — but left with the same uncertainty they walked in with. Others were disappointed there were not any candidate-audience interactions during the forum and topics of violence and safety were not on
the agenda. Still, an overwhelming amount of attendees were thankful to have another debate specifically geared toward people of color and to hear both mayoral candidates address issues that directly impact their community.
John Connolly entertains one-on-one questions with an attendee after a recent community forum. (Bryan Trench photo)
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Council overrides mayor’s veto on banking ordinance
City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo led the charge to override Mayor Thomas Menino’s veto of the Invest in Boston ordinance. (Photo courtesy of Felix G. Arroyo) Yawu Miller A simmering battle over the city’s banking services came to a boil last week when the City Council overrode a veto from the mayor for the first time in 19 years, passing Councilor Felix G. Arroyo’s Invest in Boston ordinance over Mayor Thomas Menino’s objections. Under the new ordinance, banks will be required to disclose data including loans made to small
businesses in Boston, mortgages loaned to Boston homeowners and other banking activities in order to bid for contracts to provide banking services for the City of Boston. The city government deposits account for more than $1 billion in payroll and other services. “Invest in Boston means that as a city, we will only do business with banks that invest in our neighborhoods,” Arroyo said. The ordinance, modeled after similar laws in cities like Cleve-
land and Philadelphia, is aimed at using the city’s cash as an incentive for banks to invest more in Boston’s local economy. By disclosing data on lending, the banks would enable city officials to better evaluate their lending activities, according to Arroyo. “Invest in Boston will strengthen our economy by supporting small businesses, stabilizing our neighborhoods by promoting home ownership and helping end the cycle of poverty by creating jobs in our city,” he said. The Menino administration argued the proposed ordinance would place too many conditions on banks in exchange for providing services that do not earn them much profit. Earlier in October, he proposed his own legislation, which greatly reduced the amount of information banks would be required to disclose. While Arrroyo’s ordinance calls for banks to report lending to small businesses, mortgage loans, personal loans, lending to community development corporations and information on foreclosures, Menino’s ordinance would not require banks to disclose such data. The showdown at last Wednesday’s council meeting began with Arroyo’s motion for a vote to override the mayor’s veto. Councilor Mike Ross countered, suggesting the council had an obligation to hold a hearing on Menino’s ordinance.
Council President Murphy then called for a delay on the vote to override, pending a hearing. But Arroyo, arguing that he still had a motion on the floor of the council, countered by asking councilors to vote on whether the vote should take place that day. Speaking on behalf of Arroyo’s call for a vote that day were councilors Frank Baker, Tito Jackson, Ayanna Pressley and Charles Yancey. “Transparency and accountability are key,” Jackson argued. “Every student in the Boston public schools gets a report card,” he said. “Someone who’s holding a billion a year is asking that they not have to hand in a report card.” Arguing against reviewing the mayor’s proposal, Baker noted that the council had held hearings on his proposed ordinance over the last four years before the council’s unanimous vote in support. “The mayor’s plan is a reaction to what we’re trying to do here,” Baker said. “We voted 13 to zero in favor of this. People in my neighborhood are looking for banks to invest in Dorchester. So I’ll be voting yes today.” In the final vote, the motion to override the mayor’s veto passed 10 to 3, over the objections of
councilors Rob Consalvo, Sal Lamattina and Mike Ross. Activists from community-based advocacy groups including City Life/Vida Urbana celebrated with Arroyo and his staff outside the council chamber after the vote. Municipal Research Bureau President Sam Tyler said he didn’t
“Invest in Boston means that as a city, we will only do business with banks that invest in our neighborhoods.” — Councilor Felix G. Arroyo think the ordinance would have much immediate effect on the city. Menino administration officials just approved a three-year contract with Citizen’s Bank to provide banking services to the city, Tyler noted. “It’s an issue that’s going to have to be addressed by the next mayor and the next council,” he said.
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foot single story building, which was once home to the Pearl Meat Factory, into a shared, multi-tenant food production facility. According to J.D. Kemp, founder and executive director of CropCircle Kitchen, the goals of the food production center will be to create 150 permanent jobs, promote entrepreneurship and small business development, build the infrastructure to support local food systems and improve access to locally produced, healthy food for low-income families. Renovation work on the center is now underway and it is scheduled to be completed in April 2014. There are two other projects that are contributing to the revitalization of what is being called the “Quincy
Street Corridor.” The first is the $20 million new construction of 44 homes for seniors with ground floor retail space right on the corner of Quincy St. and Blue Hill Avenue. The second is $4 million redevelopment of a 20,000-square-foot auto repair shop at 259 Quincy St. into a digital design, education and fabrication training and industrial arts facility. The project is being called “259Q — The Dream Factory” and is being done in collaboration with Dorchester Bay EDC, Fablabs4America and Urban Idea Lab. “This is like a ‘wow’ change,” said Jean DuBois, executive director of Dorchester Bay EDC. “We have never done so much in one place. To have three projects in three blocks is huge. And then to have two of those be job centers for the local people — we thought we might put housing
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Construction is already underway on the Quincy Heights project on Quincy St. in Dorchester. The $56 million development has 80 new affordable housing units in the first phase and 49 units in the second phase. (Martin Desmarais photo) are not many $20 million grants out there. And I am going to personally hold people’s feet to the fire on this.” HUD’s Donovan said a key to the success of the Quincy Street development so far and the awarding of the Choice Neighborhoods grant was the strong vision for the neighborhood that all the development partners have. He pointed out that Boston was the first city in the country to start work on a project with its grant. “When we looked around the country to give one of our first five Choice Neighborhoods awards we looked for places that had a vision and a partnership just like is represented here,” Donovan said. “That’s what we were looking for and, boy, did we get it right. You do have the best
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Examining the beauty and harmony of Islamic artist
Shirin Neshat Susan Saccoccia Beauty and harmony are paramount in Islamic art. These qualities are also integral to the photographs, videos and films of Shirin Neshat. Born in Iran in 1957, the New York-based artist engages the Persian aesthetic and cultural traditions of her homeland to explore the ever-changing present of Iran. Her ravishing images show women crossing boundaries and asserting power despite Islamic norms that constrict their freedom. A rifle barrel protrudes like an earring alongside the face of a young woman in an image from Neshat’s 1996 series, “Women of Allah,” in the show “She Who Tells a Story: Women Photog-
raphers from Iran and the Arab World,” on view through Jan. 12 at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Nearby is a still photograph from Neshat’s video installation “Turbulent” (1998), which won the top prize at the 1999 Venice Biennale. The viewer stands between two short films that play on opposite walls. On one screen, a male sings a poem by the 13th century mystic Rumi to an audience of men. He then turns to face the opposite screen, where a woman in a chador launches a raw, incantatory vocal improvisation in an empty hall. As the man watches his veiled counterpart, his face becomes a study in awe. Although under Islamic rule, female singers cannot record or perform in public, in Neshat’s installa-
tion, the man and woman are equals. In art and life, Neshat migrates between two worlds. In 1974, at age 17, she left Iran to attend college in the U.S. Five years later, the 1979 revolution transformed her formerly secular country into an Islamic republic and she remained here. Neshat returned to Iran in 1990, a journey that inspired her to render the experience of contemporary Iranian women under Islamic rule. Since 1996, Iran’s government has not allowed her to enter the country, regarding her works as challenging Islamic norms. Neshat has become an international art star whose works are in the collections of major museums throughout the world. In 2013 alone, she has had solo ex-
hibitions in Madrid, Istanbul and Beijing along with a mid-career retrospective at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Visiting the MFA to give two sold-out lectures in between teaching engagements at the Yale School of Art and the London Film School, Neshat embodies the minimalist beauty found in her art. A slender woman with kohl-lined eyes and black hair knotted away from her face, she wears a black dress and an intricate silver necklace. Talking over coffee at a museum café, she is warm and unassuming, and speaks with conviction in a soft voice. When creating films, videos and photographs, Neshat directs the filming but does not work the cameras. “I am a western concep-
tual western artist,” says Neshat, who considers herself an heir to the century-old trend in art famously proclaimed by Marcel Duchamp, who argued that an artist’s idea matters more than the resulting object. Yet as Neshat composes images, she is guided by Islamic aesthetic principles she has absorbed since childhood. “Harmony is the essence of Islamic art,” says Neshat. “I grew up with Persian visual traditions. They are inherent and intuitive in me. From Persian miniatures to architecture, these principles include abstraction, simplicity, geometry and symmetry and the integration of text into the design.” Neshat, continued to page 16
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Sweet Dreams: Film examines all-female drumming troupe
The Ingoma Nysha Drummers are an all-female drumming troupe in Rwanda that is the subject of a documentary “Sweet Dreams” by Lisa and Rob Fruchtman. (Lex Fletcher photo)
The Ingoma Nysha Drummers contains women of both Tutsis and Hutus background and has about 60 members. (Lex Fletcher photo)
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of the ethnic cleansing remain totally traumatized by the slaughter they’d witnessed. Consequently, much of the populace still walks around in a daze sporting blank, thousand-yard stares some refer to as battle fatigue or shell shock, and what shrinks refer to clinically as post-traumatic stress syndrome. For, it is understandable that it might be hard to get over
The 1994 Civil War left the beleaguered African nation of
Rwanda a bloody mess, both literally and figuratively. Not only had the warring tribes, the Hutus and the Tutsis, hacked each other to
death with machetes to the tune of about a million bodies scattered across the countryside, but to this day many of the survivors
a conflict which pitted neighbor against neighbor, and even relative against relative. One survivor, theater director Kiki Katese, determined to do something to alleviate the suffering, asked, “How do you rebuild a human being?” So, she founded Ingoma Nshya (meaning “new drum, new kingdom”), an all-feTroupe, continued to page 17
Left to right: Kiki Katese, founder of Ingoma Nysha Drummers, and Jennie Dundas, a proprietor of Blue Marble Ice Cream in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dundas has helped Katese launch an ice cream parlor in Rwanda. (Lisa Fruchtman photo)
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“Roja,” by Shirin Neshat, is a gelatin silver print with India ink. Copyright Shirin Neshat Charles Bain Hoyt Fund and Francis Welch Fund. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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Perhaps the biggest boundary that Neshat yearns to cross is the distance between herself and her homeland. Art provides a medium to bridge this gap. “I’ve lived here longer than in
my own country,” says Neshat. “I would not have become an artist if I did not live here, with my longing to reconnect with Iran.” While Neshat directs others to photograph the scenes she stages, she painstakingly handwrites the delicate lines of Persian calligraphy that overlay the faces in her portraits.
“I apply ink with a brush or for smaller words, with a pen,” says Neshat. “It’s easy to ruin a photograph. Managing the brush is like painting, a slowly acquired skill. Over the years, I’ve become more refined at it.” Neshat finds calligraphy a satisfying but strenuous process. “Writing is meditative and solitary,” says Neshat. “But it can be frustrating too, in its repetitiveness.” Films and videos offer her a more dynamic way of working. “I can collaborate with others on a larger scale,” says Neshat, “and draw the viewer into an experience with music and acting as well as visual images.” Neshat was awarded the 2009 Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for her adaptation of Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur’s 1979 novel, “Women Without Men,” which follows five women as they emerge from oppressed lives. Neshat’s new photographic series, “The Book of Kings,” borrows its name from the epic poem of Iran, the Shahnameh. The ensemble of 80 portraits casts contemporary Iranians as nation builders. Men and women appear side by side as equals in an evolving society. “Their world is already very different than a decade ago,” says Neshat. “The population is better educated, and 80 to 90 percent of Iranian women are working.” Drawn to portraying “determined and heroic women” of the Islamic world, Neshat has begun her next feature film, a biography of the legendary Egyptian singer Om Kolthoum (1898-1975). The
daughter of an imam in a village mosque, she became one of the most revered Arabic singers in history. Millions lined the streets to witness her funeral procession. “My desire is to tell the story of
an artist with power,” says Neshat. “Unlike the western model of singers like Billy Holiday and Edith Piaf whose careers ended in self-destruction, she was powerful to the end of her life.”
Work by Shirin Neshat (above) is on display at MFA Boston. (Photo Lina Bertucci, courtesy of the Gladstone Gallery.)
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Ice cream shop Sweet Dreams is owned and operated by women form Ingoma Nshya in Rwanda. (Lisa Fruchtman photo)
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male drumming troupe comprised of both Tutsis and Hutus, with admission being conditioned on checking one’s tribal allegiance at the door. Besides affording the 60-strong membership an opportunity to pound rhythmically on congas, the gathering simultaneously served as a support group offering healing and reconciliation. In 2010, Kiki came up with another innovative idea, namely, opening Rwanda’s first ice cream parlor. This time, she enlisted the support of Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen, proprietors of a place located half a world away in Brooklyn called Blue Marble Ice Cream. The game New Yorkers answered the call, traveling to
Rwanda to help Kiki realize that dream. Together they created Sweet Dreams, a shop owned and operated cooperatively by a number of the women from Ingoma Nshya. All of the above are affectionately recounted in “Sweet Dreams,” an uplifting documentary co-directed by Lisa and Rob Fruchtman. Kiki and her companions cut a sharp contrast to the bulk of their fellow countrymen peppering the desolate background, lost souls who seem broken in spirit and caught between mourning murdered kin and facing bleak prospects for a better tomorrow. “Sweet Dreams” is a female empowerment flick featuring a blend of ice cream and drumming as a viable path to rehabilitation and reconciliation.
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So who is Carmen Segarra? A fed whistleblower Q&A
Carmen Segarra outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Oct. 10, 2013. (Nabil Rahman for ProPublica) Jake Bernstein Former bank examiner Carmen Segarra vaulted into public consciousness earlier this month when she filed a wrongful termination lawsuit alleging that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York fired her after she refused to go soft on investment banking behemoth Goldman Sachs. The Fed hired Segarra in late 2011 as part of a group of examiners brought on to monitor systemically important banks in the aftermath of the Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul. The Fed wanted experts in key areas — such as operations, compliance and credit risk — to examine the “Too Big To Fail” financial institutions. Segarra’s career path seemed to make her a perfect fit. Segarra, 41, was born in Indiana, raised mostly in Puerto Rico and graduated from Harvard. Her father, a doctor, encouraged a life-long love of learning. She is a polyglot, fluent in Spanish and French, conversant in German and Italian. Even in the midst of preparing her lawsuit, she continued with classes in Dutch, which she says is “totally messing up my German.” After getting a master’s degree in French cultural studies at Columbia’s campus in Paris, she went on to law school at Cornell. She then spent 13 years working at different financial firms, including Citigroup and Société Générale. Outside of the office, she held leadership positions in the Hispanic National Bar Association. Hired by the Fed as a legal
and compliance specialist, she was told to pay particular attention to how Goldman was complying with the Fed’s requirements on conflicts of interest. Segarra says she was fired after she found that Goldman lacked an adequate company-wide policy to manage conflicts of interest — and after her superiors urged her to change this finding and she refused. The Fed has denied any wrongdoing in the case, as has Goldman, which is not a defendant in Segarra’s lawsuit. Readers have asked who is this woman who dared to challenge two of Wall Street’s most powerful institutions. We put some questions to Segarra to learn more about her background.
ing in one particular type of law or regulation. As a bank examiner, you get to use that knowledge and those skills to evaluate what others have built, and, if and when necessary, point out ways to improve them.
Some commenters say your story isn’t surprising — investment banking is all about conflicts. Agree?
Sadly, yes. But it doesn’t have to
be that way. There are laws, rules, and regulations already in the books that, if regulators enforced them properly, would go a long way towards fixing this problem.
Some, including Michael Silva, the senior fed official at Goldman at the time of your examination, have cited Goldman’s Code of Conduct as evidence that it had a firm-wide conflictof-interest policy. Why do you believe that this did not satisfy Fed requirements?
Goldman did not think its Code of Conduct was a firm-wide conflicts-of-interest policy. When we asked for a copy of their firmwide conflicts-of-interest policy, Goldman did not submit its Code of Conduct to us for our consideration. Goldman was correct not to think so. SR 08-08 [the Fed requirement for firm-wide conflicts-of-interest policies and procedures] and its supporting and related documentation do provide guidance as to the content you would expect to see discussed in a policy. Goldman’s Code of Conduct does not satisfy the requirements and expectations of SR 08-08. Other banks agree with Goldman. At the time, some had adopted both a Code of Conduct, which these banks did not consider a policy, as well as separate conflicts-of-interest policies. My direct management and some of my peers did not think Goldman’s Code of Conduct was a conflicts-of-interest policy. Policies in banks are actually pretty standardized documents, with clear titles and content directly related to the title/purpose of the document, written in a language meant
to be understood by every employee at every level.
Does the Fed have the resources to keep up with big banks?
The Fed is self-funded, so yes. The issues are lack of backbone, transparency, thoroughness and perseverance, not lack of resources.
If you had 10 minutes with Janet Yellen [President Obama’s nominee to be chairwoman of the Fed], what advice would you give her?
Stimulus and good monetary policy are keys to getting the economy back on track. Although not as sexy, transparent, thorough, and rigorous supervision, constantly and consistently implemented across all supervised institutions, is key to preventing the next financial crisis.
Goldman says it has overhauled its policies and procedures to manage conflicts. Based on their report, do you think the bank would pass muster now?
The report does not provide enough detail to ascertain whether or not they would pass muster. You would really have to look at the actual policies, procedures, and other supporting elements they say they have implemented and measure them against SR 08-08 before making that determination.
Would you call yourself a whistleblower? Absolutely!
Article originally published by ProPublica
Bank examiner — to most people that seems an obscure job. What’s the attraction?
I actually studied business law and regulation in law school. I cowrote a law review article on Y2K [the millennial computer bug], which ended up being published. As a result of that, my co-author and I were asked to work on setting up the Y2K legal and compliance program for a bank. I discovered early on that I enjoyed learning about a law and immediately applying it, much the same way that I enjoy learning and speaking a new language. As a general practitioner, I have worked closely with a wide range of laws and regulations that apply across the banking and investment sectors, as opposed to just specializ-
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The 2013 Triple Crown Sports US Baseball Champions including several Astros Alumni who have gone on to play professional baseball, gathered for a private Sox Watch Party
Boston Astros players, coaches, alumni and friends gathered on Sunday evening to watch the Red Sox beat the Cardinals in Game 4 of the World Series. The private event drew more than 100 people – including most of the Astros’ Triple Crown Sports US Baseball Championship team, and Astros alumni who have gone on to play professional baseball including Juan Carlos Portes, formerly of the Minnesota Twins, Eddy Morabel, who recently signed as a free agent with the Texas Rangers, and Vladimir Camacho, recently drafted into the Frontier League. Also in attendance: Robert Lewis, Jr., founder and president of The BASE and the Boston Astros; WCVB’s CityLine Host Karen Holmes Ward and her husband, Forrest Ward, Mark Culliton, Executive Director of College Bound Dorchester, Chris Byner of Boston Centers for Youth and Families, Denise Korn of Korn Design and Youth Design, and Scott Tully, Novaya Real Estate Ventures. Boston Astros team is comprised of elite players, primarily from Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan. Each player ‘earns their spot,’ and there is no fee to participate on the team, contrary to most elite suburban teams. The Astros earned several impressive championships this season, and more importantly, are celebrating success off the field with 16 of 17 graduating seniors going on to college.
Top Left: CityLine’s Karen Holmes Ward and husband Forrest Ward and ,The Base and Boston Astros founder Robert Lewis, Jr. Bottom Left: CityLine’s Karen Holmes Ward and Denise Korn, founder of both Korn Design and YouthDesign. Middle: Robert Lewis Jr., proudly stands between 2 former Astros players that have gone on to play professional baseball: Juan Carlos Portes, also formerly of the Minnesota Twins, and Vladimir Camacho, graduate of Franklin Pierce and member of Traverse City Beach Bums of the Frontier League. Right: Juan Carlos Portes and Vladimir Camacho, graduate of Franklin Pierce University and recently drafted into the Frontier League with Robert Lewis, Jr. and friends.
Discover Roxbury’s Heart of the Hub fundraiser Guests from the arts, cultural, education, medical, historic preservation, and culinary communities in Roxbury and around Greater Boston attended Discover Roxbury’s Heart of the Hub fundraiser on Oct 17, 2013 to celebrate Roxbury’s physical and cultural assets, and the people who work tirelessly to strengthen them. Awardees of the 2013 Roxbury Puddingstone Award include: Educator & activist, Mel King; educator & activist Samantha Sadd & Roxbury’s own & current SNL musician Tuffus Zimbabwe.
Far Left: Artist Ife Franklin showing off article in newspaper! Middle: Roxbury Puddingstone Awardee Tuffus Zimbabwe and Allen Bush, D.R. Board member; Berklee School of Music. Top Right: Akiba Abaka, Cagen Luse, Marisa Luse. Bottom right: Michelle Coleman & friends. (Anthony W. Lanier photos)
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every black and Latino elected official who has weighed in on the race, endorsements from former black and Latino elected officials, including Mel King, and members of the Legislature’s Progressive Caucus. Endorsements aside, you can forgive Armstead and the other 14 percent to 17 percent of voters who remain undecided in the race. Line the candidates up on issues — support for casinos, lifting the cap on charter schools, increasing diversity in the police department — and their stances are nearly indistinguishable. That was what a group of black, Latino and Asian activists determined when mulling an endorsement in the race. In the end, the group, called Right to the City Vote, picked Walsh because
he made more concrete commitments than did Connolly, according to Mariama White Hammond, a member of the coalition. “Connolly gave us a broad vision, but was weak on the details,” she says. Still, White Hammond acknowledges that as the campaign
“I’m still suffering from the fact that we haven’t figured out how to win the mayor’s seat in a city where we’re majority people of color.” — Ron Armstead has progressed, the differences between the candidates haven’t become any easier to discern. “They’ve shifted so much,” she says. “It feels like they’re more
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Virginia Lee Ruffen Date of Death: 03/24/2013
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A petition has been filed by Wilma L. Ruffen of Dorchester, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Wilma L. Ruffen of Dorchester, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/21/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 17, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU13P2512EA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Lynette Crystal Maupin Also known as: Lynette Crystal Buchanan Date of Death: 02/14/2010
reject public employee contracts and given an arbitrator final say. Others in the black community look askance at Walsh’s leadership in the building trades, which for
long have had a reputation for being unwelcoming to black and Latino workers. On the other hand, Connolly’s call for a return to neighborhood schools raised eyebrows in the black community, where shortages of quality schools and a net deficit of seats has made busing the only option for many black and Latino families. Both candidates have endeavored to move out of their respective bases — Connolly in the predominantly white wards in West Roxbury, Charlestown and East Boston and Walsh in the predominantly white wards of Dorchester and South Boston. Both have made similar sets of campaign promises to the black, Latino and Asian voters who inhabit the vast swath of the city that separate their respective bases: a mayoral administration that reflects the diversity of the city at its highest levels, longer school days and
NOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES Hearing Date/Time: A hearing on a Petition for Appointment of Guardian of a Minor filed on 07/29/2013 by Barbara R. Malcolm of Mattapan, MA will be held 12/17/2013 09:00 AM Motion Located at 24 New Chardon Street, 3rd floor, Boston, MA 02114 - Family Service Office. Response to Petition: You may respond by filing a written response to the Petition or by appearing in person at the hearing. If you choose to file a written response, you need to: File the original with the Court; and Mail a copy to all interested parties at least five (5) business days before the hearing.
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and more the same. It comes down to a question of trust.” For some, Walsh’s longstanding connection to unions stands out as an impediment to trust. Connolly has hammered away at the legislation Walsh filed yearafter-year that would have taken away the City Council’s power to
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Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minor over age 14 has the right to be present at any hearing, unless the Court finds that it is not in the minor’s best interests.
THIS IS A LEGAL NOTICE: An important court proceeding that may affect your rights has been scheduled. If you do not understand this notice or other court papers, please contact an attorney for legal advice. Date: September 18, 2013
Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate ZONING HEARING
The Zoning Commission of the City of Boston hereby gives notice, in accordance with Chapter 665 of the Acts of 1956, as amended, that a public hearing will be held on November 13, 2013, at 9:15 AM, in Room 900, Boston City Hall, in connection with Text Amendment Application No. 447 and Map Amendment Application No. 640 filed by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The proposed text and map amendments will amend Article 50 and Map 6A/6B/6C, Roxbury Neighborhood District, by including the Albany Street Medical Area Community Facilities subdistrict in the areas where Planned Development Areas (“PDAs”) are allowed, and establishing dimensional regulations and public benefits criteria for PDAs. Copies of the petitions and a map of the area involved may be obtained at the office of the Zoning Commission, Room 953C, Boston City Hall, between 9 AM and 5 PM any day except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. For the Commission, Jeffrey M. Hampton Executive Secretary LEGAL NOTICE REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
To all interested persons: A petition has been filed by Todd F. Mitchell, Sr. of Billerica, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Todd F. Mitchell, Sr. of Billerica, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve With Personal Surety on the bond. You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on 11/21/2013. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 17, 2013 Patricia M. Campatelli Register of Probate
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK SERVICES The MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY (Massport) is soliciting Construction Management at Risk Services for MPA CONTRACT NO. L1255-C1, TERMINAL C CONNECTORS, LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, EAST BOSTON, MA (The Project). In accordance with Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 149A, Sections 1 thru 13, Massport is seeking a highly qualified and competent Construction Manager (CM) to provide preconstruction services and implement the construction of the Project in accordance with an agreement where basis for payment is the cost of the work plus a fee with a negotiated guaranteed maximum price. This Request for Qualifications (RFQ) is being utilized to prequalify and shortlist CM firms who will be invited to submit proposals in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) to be issued by Massport. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF SERVICES The proposed project includes construction of post security concourses between Terminal C (at Pier B) and Terminal E, and between Terminal C from Pier C to Pier D, including improvements to Terminal C at hold rooms, concessions, toilets and concourse. This post-security connectivity will allow customers to have seamless access to all Terminal C gates; therefore, any gate changes or connecting passengers can move behind security to all 24 gates. This project will also allow certain pre-cleared international arriving passengers to connect to departures from Terminal C and allow all arriving passengers to connect to international departures at Terminal E. The project will incorporate sustainable design elements.
In the interests of Angelina Janine Atkins of Mattapan, MA Minor
The work includes general site and interior preparation, foundations, utility relocations, construction phasing and sequencing, walkway structures, architecture, pedestrian circulation/wayfinding, means of egress, signage/ graphics, stairs, elevators, escalators, ADA and code compliance, HVAC, plumbing, fire protection, electrical, lighting, power, security, and other systems and facilities required by existing codes and regulations and necessary to achieve a complete functional facility. Construction of the new work will also impact existing facilities and also existing ramp activity and it is essential that the work be designed and constructed in such a manner that all required operations and ramp activity will be maintained with no permanent obstructions to current and future ramp activity.
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Massport recognizes the numerous benefits Building Information Modeling (BIM), Models and Model Applications can potentially provide to each phase
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increased resources for the city’s schools, support for minority- and woman-owned businesses. With the candidates locked in a dead heat, in the end the race could hinge on any number of factors — foul weather that favors Walsh’s massive get-out-the-vote machine, a late surge from Connolly’s television advertisements, which have been hitting the airwaves. Whichever way the race is decided, it appears as though the black community has its bases covered with supporters active in both campaigns. Candidates of color may not have been able to break past the white candidates in the preliminary, but black and Latino voters remain key constituencies in the final stretch. Continue to meditate. Through meditation, keep climbing higher. O courageous soul, have no fear. O dear one, complete your sadhana with a brave heart. — Swami Muktananda
of the facility life cycle. In an effort to realize the added value of these benefits, Massport is implementing a Building Information Modeling (BIM) Program for this project. In addition, to further improve efficiency and value on this project, Massport will also be implementing Lean Construction principles, including Pull Planning and other Lean process tools. In addition to the construction services, the CM shall also provide Preconstruction Services which shall include, but are not limited to, cost estimating, scheduling, phasing and logistics, value engineering, document review to support the preparation of trade packages and constructability reviews. The CM shall be expected to work closely with Massport’s team including its Project Manager and design team in order to effectively implement the project. The construction budget is estimated at approximately Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000) with an estimated date of beneficial occupancy within the second quarter of 2015. SELECTION PROCESS Massport intends to implement a two-step selection process including a Qualification phase and a Proposal phase. At the Qualifications phase, the Prequalification Committee will conduct a qualifications- based evaluation of interested CM firms in order to create a shortlist of competent CM firms. Shortlisted firms shall be invited to respond to a written RFP which will require both a technical proposal and a price proposal. A Selection Committee will review Proposals in order to rank the shortlisted firms and make the final selection. Massport intends to shortlist qualified firms and issue an RFP by January 2014 and make a final selection by April 2014. Interviews may be held at the Authority’s discretion. The Designer shall participate in the selection of the Construction Manager. KEY FACTORS A Supplemental Information Package which will provide more details on the scope of the Project as well as the selection process shall be available as of November 13, 2013 by contacting Susan Brace at 617-568-5961 or by email at sbrace@massport.com. In addition, a Project Briefing shall be held in the Bid Room located in the Capital programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA on Wednesday, November 13, 2013at 10:00 AM. Although the briefing is not mandatory, attendance is highly recommended so that interested parties can become more familiar with the requirements of the project. EVALUATION CRITERIA Qualification Statements from interested firms will be evaluated in accordance with the following Evaluation Criteria in order to shortlist qualified CM firms: (1) proposed CM team; (2) CM project management experience; (3) similar project and Airport terminal experience; (4) CM-at-Risk within the constructs of MGL 149A (5) safety record; (6) capacity and financial stability; and (7) litigation and termination experience. These Evaluation Criteria will be more fully explained in the Supplemental Information Package. AFFIDAVIT The CM shall be DCAMM-certified and provide an Update Statement as well as an affidavit that the Statement of Qualifications being submitted in response to the RFQ is signed under the pains and penalties of perjury. The CM shall also provide a letter from a surety company confirming the CM firm’s ability to provide performance and payment bonds in the full amount of the construction estimate. Please note that having the document notarized does not fulfill the requirement for signing under the pains and penalties of perjury. CONFIDENTIALITY OF DOCUMENTS Any information provided to the Authority in any Proposal or other written or oral communication between the Proposer and the Authority will not be, or deemed to have been, proprietary or confidential, although the Authority will use reasonable efforts not to disclose such information to persons who are not employees or consultants retained by the Authority except as may be required by M.G.L. c66. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Each Qualification Statement shall be limited to 15 sheets (30 pages) of written material, which shall be printed on both sides of the sheet (8 ½ x 11). The 30 pages exclude cover letter, response cover, dividers, resumes, DCAMM documents. The firm’s financial information shall be submitted in a separate envelope. Ten (10) copies of the bound document and one envelope clearly marked “Financial Information” shall be addressed to Houssam Sleiman, P.E., CCM, Director of Capital Programs and Environmental Affairs and received in the Capital Programs Department no later than 12:00 NOON on Wednesday, December 4, 2013 at the Massachusetts Port Authority, Capital Programs Department, Logan Office Center, One Harborside Drive, Suite 209S, Logan International Airport, East Boston, MA 02128-2909. Any submission that exceeds the page limit set here or that is not received in the Capital Programs Department in a timely manner shall be rejected by Massport as non-responsive. All questions relative to your submission shall be directed to cpbidquestions@massport.com. It is strictly prohibited for any proponent to contact anyone else from Massport about this project from the time of this solicitation until award of the project to the successful proponent. MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY Thomas P. 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Applications will be available during the application period of 11/14/13 through 11/22/13. In person: Visit 22 Boston Wharf Road from 12:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Thursday 11/14/13. 10:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. Friday 11/15/13 and 10:00 A.M. until 2:00 P.M. on Saturday 11/16/13. To be sent email or USPS: Call 617-934-2315 or Email 381congressstreet@gmail.com. Application Deadline is 12/3/13, mailed and postmarked that day to: 22 Boston Wharf Road, South Boston, MA 02210.
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Selection by lottery. Asset, Use & Occupancy Restrictions apply. Preference for 1 accessible unit to disabled households requiring wheelchair accessibility. Preference for Boston Residents. Units available for immediate occupancy upon approval. For more info or reasonable accommodations, call Timothy O’Brien at Boston Residential Group 617-934-2315
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Marshfield housing opportunity PURCHASE PROGRAM • ROUND 8-C
The Marshfield Housing Partnership is accepting additional applications from qualified applicants for grants to assist them in purchasing an existing market rate home or condominium in Marshfield. A deed restriction will be recorded on each unit purchased with a grant to secure affordability in perpetuity. MAXIMUM GRANT AMOUNTS 1 Bedroom
2 Bedroom
3, 4 and 5 Bedrooms
$60,000
$80,000
$100,000
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1 BR Condo
$194,000
$60,000
$134,000
1 BR House
$225,000
$60,000
$165,000
2 BR Condo
$230,000
$80,000
$150,000
2 BR House
$266,000
$80,000
$186,000
3 BR Condo
$272,000
$100,000
$172,000
3 BR House
$306,000
$100,000
$206,000
4 BR House
$322,000
$100,000
$222,000
5 BR House
$340,000
$100,000
$240,000
MAXIMUM ANNUAL HOUSEHOLD INCOME 1 Person
2 Person
3 Person
4 Person
5 Person
6 Person
7 Person
8 Person
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$47,150
$53,900
$60,650
$67,350
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Subject to periodic change by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Net family assets may not exceed $75,000. Households interested in applying should attend one of the two informational sessions being provided. Informational sessions will be held at the following locations: Thursday, November 14, 2013, 7:00 PM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:00 AM: Hearing Room # 2, Marshfield Town Hall, 870 Moraine Street, Marshfield A lottery will be held on Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 7:00 PM at the Marshfield Town Hall, Hearing Room # 2, to select grant recipients. Successful grant recipients are required to have at least one family member attend and complete a Homebuyer Education Workshop For additional information or to receive an application please contact either the Marshfield Housing Authority (781-834-4333) or the Marshfield Housing Coordinator: (781-834-1051). Applications are also available at the Marshfield Town Hall. All applications must be received and date stamped by the Marshfield Housing Authority no later than 12:00 PM (Noon) on Friday, December 6, 2013. Marshfield Housing Authority, 12 Tea Rock Gardens, Marshfield, MA 02050 MHOPP Funding was made possible by the Town’s adoption of the Community Preservation Act
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CLOSING FAMILY PUBLIC HOUSING WAITING LIST Notice is hereby given that on Friday, November 29, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. the Ipswich Housing Authority (IHA) will close its Chapter 705 and Chapter 200, Family Public Housing waiting lists for 2, 3 and 4-bedroom subsidized housing. After the closing date of November 29th at 12:00 pm., the waiting list for state-aided family housing will remain open only to applicants who qualify for Priority 1-Homeless due to Displacement by Natural Forces; Priority 2-Homeless due to Displacement by Public Action (Urban Renewal) and Priority 3Homeless Due to Public Action (Sanitary Code Violations). The Chapter 667 Elderly and Non-Elderly Handicapped Housing Program is open on a continuous basis and will remain open. Applications will be accepted until 12:00 p.m. Friday, November 29, 2013. Applications are available at the Ipswich Housing Authority at 1 Agawam Village, Ipswich, MA 01938 or by telephone at (978) 356-2860. Applications can also be downloaded at www.mass.gov/dhcd. Office hours of the Ipswich Housing Authority are Monday thru Thursday 7:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. and Fridays 7:30 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE SENT OR ACCEPTED BY FAX Equal Opportunity Housing
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DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Codman Square NDC seeks a hard-working, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented professional with a passion for teaching and helping individuals improve their lives, to fill its Director of Economic Development position. Interested individuals should possess college degree with 6 plus years of management experience, and expertise in community lending, planning, development, and general homeowner services. As Department Director, the ideal candidate will create and implement an ambitious plan to meet our organization’s vision for the department, and support and lead a team of economic development specialists in this effort.
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30% AMI
60% AMI
BRA 70% AMI
1
19,850
39,660
46,250
2
22,650
45,360
52,850
(Full Time)
3
25,500
51,000
59,450
Clinical Social Worker for two service-enriched elderly housing sites in Dorchester. Primary responsibilities include work with DMH CBFS clients, assessment, interdisciplinary care plan development, crisis intervention, case management, and student supervision. MSW with LCSW, LICSW or LMHC licensure in MA. Experience with DMH Community Based Flexible Supports documentation and interventions helpful. Strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and respond to frequently shifting needs & assignments with flexibility. Strong organizational and planning skills. Ability to work well in an interdisciplinary team essential. Previous work experience with elderly preferred. Minorities and bilingual Spanish speakers are strongly encouraged to apply.
Equal Housing Opportunity Hablamos Español.
Clinical Social Worker
Respond: Hearth, Inc. 1640 Washington Street Boston, MA 02118 Fax: 617/369-1566 or Email: pjones@hearth-home.org
Hearth is an equal opportunity employer.