Last week Mayor Wu oversaw the clearing of tents from Mass. and Cass, something the city has tried before and always results in the encampment coming back, because to finally get rid of Mass. and Cass for good Boston will have to change the way it thinks about homelessness.
The COVID-19 pediatric vaccine is now available! Today on East to West, we cover the Massachusetts ACLU’s lawsuit against the City of Boston for the management of Mass/Cass, BU student organizations’s...
Boston’s new plan to forcibly remove people from their living encampments in the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard is based on criminalization — an approach that may make things worse.
First full week of classes! Today on East to West, we cover National Suicide Prevention Week, Boston University students and faculty reflecting on the transition to in-person classes, activists’...
Politicians should provide actual treatment options for people with substance abuse issues rather than removing essential resources that mean life and death for the residents of the Methadone Mile.
Pharmacy chains with more than three Boston locations will need to provide safe sharps disposal sites, in accordance with an ordinance passed Wednesday by the Boston City Council.
When City Councilor Michelle Wu formally announced Tuesday that she will be running for mayor, residents rushed to express support. Many Bostonians have been hoping Wu would run for mayor for years now.
Join us as we cover the protocol when a member of the BU faculty tests positive for COVID-19, how COVID-19 testing has changed depending on the influx of students, how Boston Public School students...
Residents of Roxbury and the South End took to the streets Thursday to express their concerns about Methadone Mile, a stretch of Massachusetts Avenue popular for drug use and dealing.
