Author: Steve Leblanc
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Massachusetts debates how long homeless people can stay in shelters
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Massachusetts House lawmakers have approved a proposal that would limit how long homeless people can stay in emergency state shelters
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Son of famed American artist charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
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BOSTON • For years, Vincent Gillespie waged a legal battle to try to gain control of hundreds of paintings by his father — renowned postwar American artist Gregory Gillespie. On Jan. 6, 2021, prosecutors say, Gillespie engaged in a very different kind of battle, joining rioters as they tried to wrest control of the U.S.…
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Report: Joe Kennedy to challenge Sen. Markey
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BOSTON • Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, a scion of one of America’s most storied political families, is set to announce he will challenge U.S. Sen. Edward Markey in the state’s Democratic primary in 2020. A person with knowledge of Kennedy’s plans said that Kennedy will formally make the announcement Saturday. The person wasn’t…
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Major congressional upset in Massachusetts another win for fresh Democratic voices
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BOSTON — Ayanna Pressley is all but assured of becoming the first black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, the latest example of the Democratic Party’s embrace of diversity and liberal politics as the recipe for success in the Trump era. The 44-year-old’s upset victory against longtime Democratic Rep. Michael Capuano in Tuesday’s primary sets…
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Studies are increasingly clear: Uber, Lyft congest cities
BOSTON — One promise of ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was fewer cars clogging city streets. But studies suggest the opposite: that ride-hailing companies are pulling riders off buses, subways, bicycles and their own feet and putting them in cars instead. And in what could be a new wrinkle, a service by Uber called…
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‘Free speech rally’ cut short after massive counterprotest
BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday on downtown Boston in a boisterous repudiation of white nationalism, dwarfing a small group of conservatives who cut short their planned “free speech rally” a week after a gathering of hate groups led to bloodshed in Virginia. Counterprotesters marched through the city to historic…
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US Sen. Warren seeks to pull pot shops out of banking limbo
BOSTON — As marijuana shops sprout in states that have legalized the drug, they face a critical stumbling block — lack of access to the kind of routine banking services other businesses take for granted. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is leading an effort to make sure vendors working with legal marijuana businesses,…