Thursday, April 11, 2013
City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo has entered his name into Boston’s crowded race to become the next mayor.
Standing in front of a wall lined with supporters, another city councilor announced he would be running for mayor Tuesday morning. City Councilor Felix G. Arroyo officially entered his name into the race at a press conference from SEIU Local 615 Tuesday morning. If elected, Arroyo, who lives in Jamaica Plain, would be Boston’s first Latino mayor. Arroyo answered a few questions from the media, including one about his campaign’s approach. “I will have the strongest grassroots campaign, powered by committed volunteers and funded by small donors, that’s…the only way that I would want to win, and that’s exactly how I will govern,” he said. Arroyo has been an organizer advocating for workers’ rights at SEIU 16. SOUTH END PATCH: Facebook | …
Friday, April 20, 2012
A sizable crowd turned out to oppose the plans to begin Level 4 operations at the South End facility.
Upwards of 100 concerned citizens turned out Thursday night for a public hearing at Roxbury Community College to voice their disapproval and anger over a controversial Boston University laboratory in the South End. Known as the BU Biolab, the University wants to begin creating and studying the world’s deadliest pathogens at the facility—a Level 4 bio-containment lab—which is located on Albany Street, in the heart of a densely packed residential neighborhood. The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, a 192,000-square-foot high-security biolab, has been tied up by legal challenges and regulatory reviews for a number of years. The facility is designed to study deadly germs such as Ebola, SARS and plague. “We do not dispute the …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Two Boston City Councilors who represent the South End have filed a resolution opposing a bill in the legislature that would bring to Massachusetts the "Stand Your Ground" law at the center of the killing of Trayvon Martin.
City Councilors Felix Arroyo and Tito Jackson have filed a resolution urging Beacon Hill to reject a "Stand Your Ground" bill modeled on the Florida law at the center of the Trayvon Martin killing. Jackson represents District 7, which includes the South End, while Arroyo, an at-large councilor, represents the entire city. The resolution, scheduled for debate at Wednesday's City Council meeting, says Massachusetts case law already allows people to defend themselves using deadly force if they have done everything they could to avoid the confrontation. The councilors say the Florida "Stand Your Ground" law has led to a 200 percent increase in "justifiable homicides." A PDF of the draft resolution is attached to this post. Martin, a 17-year-…
JJ
5:35 pm on Thursday, April 11, 2013
He doesn't have the experience to run a City like Boston. And, wasn't there a skeleton in his father's closet? more ›