City Youth in Boston inspired to fight climate change
Bryan Hochberg
December 11, 2019
Boston youth continue to act as climate change awareness continues to increase. With this surge of local activism, the city hopes to encourage the next generation by educating and preparing them for the future that may lie ahead. Due to reports that show a steady increase in the climate’s ...
Boston defies Executive Branch against climate change
Bryan Hochberg
December 11, 2019
Boston has seen more push back against President Donald Trump and his climate policies since the Trump Administration officially began filing paperwork on Nov. 4 that will withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. This agreement was originally signed by over 197 countries wit...
AIDs Quilts memorial brings diversity to Suffolk campus
Mol Webber
December 11, 2019
This past week the AIDs memorial patchwork quilts have been displayed across the Suffolk campus to spread awareness for those who have lost their lives to AIDs and families impacted by the virus. The memorial has been on display in the lobbies of the 73 Tremont, Sawyer and Sargent buildings. ...
Documentary preserves past of Holocaust survivor
December 2, 2019
After Theofanis Orfanos came to America in 1957, he eventually started a family and established his own shoe shine shop in Downtown Boston. But what most people don’t know about the Arlington resident is that he’s a survivor of the Holocaust. Last Friday, Northeastern student Emilio Guido showcased Orfanos...
Patrick enters Democratic race, adds to number of presidental hopefuls
Mol Webber
November 20, 2019
With the Iowa Caucus less than 80 days away, former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick has started a last minute campaign as a 2020 democratic nominee with hopes of being an alternative moderate vote. Patrick unexpectedly started his campaign last week, despite announcing last year that he wouldn...
Taking the lead on climate change in Boston
Bryan Hochberg
November 20, 2019
The race to combat climate change continues to accelerate as more cities work to find new methods to become environmentally sustainable. Metropolitan areas throughout the country are operating to enact advanced ways to reduce carbon emissions, encourage recycling and overall transform their citi...
Black reparations- how to hold the nation accountable
November 13, 2019
William Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, spoke on the case for black reparations and its feasibility at the Boston University (BU) School of Public Health on Nov. 6. The case for black reparations is not a new- found idea, especially within the blac...
Suffolk reacts to Sen. Warren’s bill for student loans
Clotilde Jegousse
November 6, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to cancel student loan debt for more than 95% of borrowers was introduced as a bill in July, dividing people ahead of the presidential elections. Proposed by Warren in April and introduced as a bill in July, this plan has been highly controversial. For decades, th...
Off-year elections bring big changes locally, nationally
November 5, 2019
Across the Bay State and the nation, many voters took to the polls last night in what proved to be an important off-year election. In Boston, new faces were guaranteed to appear on the Boston City Council after Tim McCarthy, Josh Zakim and Mark Ciommo chose not to seek re-election. They will be repl...
Globe panel discusses climate change on the Cape
Olivia Acevedo and Bryan Hochberg
October 30, 2019
When columnist Nestor Ramos of The Boston Globe wrote a front page news story titled “Climate change on Cape Cod: At the end of a warming world” this September, it became one of its most clicked online articles in the paper’s history. The story reached about 100,000 readers in five days, and shed ...
MBTA problems leave Suffolk students stranded
Catarina Protano
October 30, 2019
MBTA delays, fare hikes and line shut-downs have left Suffolk University commuters feeling frustrated. According to U.S. News & World Report, 73% of Suffolk students live off campus and commute to a campus located in the heart of a busy, traffic-heavy city. Many students lease apartments in the ...
The Ban on ‘B Word
October 30, 2019
Last week, State Representative Daniel Hunt, D, spearheaded a bill that would make it illegal to call someone a “bitch” in Massachusetts Those who use the word to “accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person,” according to the bill. Violato...
