West Roxbury Main Streets Program #Hungry2Help Boosts Sales at 12 Neighborhood Businesses, Raises Over $3,200 for Boston-Area Food Pantries — In an era of declining sales for small businesses and rising hunger due to the COVID-19 pandemic, West Roxbury Main Streets, business owners, and neighborhood residents came together to launch the Hungry to Help promotion earlier this year. Hungry to Help was based on a simple idea from Johnny Fortin…

Home: Boston, MA. Birthplace: Hollywood, Florida. Profession: Arbitrator and attorney. Organization: Loconto ADR and Fenway Law. Current project: On-demand general counsel for tech startups and emerging businesses; arbitrator and mediator for workers, unions and employers. Recent professional development: Currently apprenticing with two distinguished arbitrators in the field of labor relations…

NEW RESOURCE: locontoadr.com/conferences is a live listing of labor-management conferences across the US. In 2022, the labor-management world reopened for in-person conferences and meetings. I took 30 flights and traveled 18,237 miles, visiting with colleagues in Connecticut, D.C., Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode…

With Newly Confirmed Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Workers Take the Spotlight Former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh was sworn in on Tuesday as the 29th Secretary of Labor for the United States of America, the last of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet nominees to be confirmed by the Senate. I wrote about…

In a crisp hearing that lasted a little over two hours earlier today, a key Senate panel gave high marks for Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as the Biden administration’s nominee for Labor Secretary. The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led by Ranking Member Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)…

Ed. note: This is an op-ed piece by the West Roxbury parents whose names are at the bottom. Anybody on the opposing side of this issue can contact us to post a rebuttal. Background: The proposal and the fatal crash and meeting that led to it. As fall begins its…

SINCE THE JURY handed down its verdict in the Boston Calling trial earlier this month, convicting two City Hall aides on federal Hobbs Act violations, a steady stream of prominent individuals have continued to scrutinize the impact of the outcome on the practice of good government. …

The last time I visited a Congressional office, I sat at the knee of the Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. He gave me a Celtics pennant, which (rumor had it) was given to him by Red Auerbach following the Celtics championship run earlier that year. …

NEXT MONTH’S BALLOT question on statewide charter school growth may seem like a stark choice between two systems: local district schools or state-chartered institutions. But that’s not the case. Charter and district schools will continue to coexist in Massachusetts regardless of the outcome on November 8. The real issue before…