EAST BOSTON RESIDENTS PUSH TO RESTORE FUNDING FOR LOCAL SAILING CENTER
By Joe Spurr, Globe Correspondent | Page: B1
Like every other year, the Piers Park Sailing Center in East Boston is closed for the winter. Its frosted docks anchor three sailboats, bobbing gently with the water. Skyscrapers across the harbor sparkle in the early dusk.
Vince D’Addieco [...]
By Joe Spurr and Jenny Jiang, Globe Correspondents
Ralph Nader’s criticisms of the federal government during last year’s presidential race haven’t shrunk. They’ve grown.
Calling the US war in Afghanistan “a riverboat gamble,” Nader said President Bush is “basically in the process of burning down the haystack to find the needle.” In an interview yesterday with the [...]
Interview by Joe Spurr, Globe Correspondent
Howard Zinn, historian, author, Boston University professor emeritus, and antiwar activist, recently received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism. He has authored “A People’s History of the United States,” and his autobiography “You Can’t Be Neutral On [...]
By Joe Spurr, Globe Correspondent
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the Massachusetts law that creates a buffer zone around abortion clinics does not violate the free speech rights of protesters.
The law, passed a year ago and upheld yesterday by the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, bans protesters from coming [...]
