A proposed resolution in the Boston City Council to advise the state to put the city of Boston’s Election Department under receivership following election day issues failed to pass at the body’s Nov.

The curriculum at UATX, as it is known, is oriented around Western civilization, using texts like the Bible and Greek classics. One rule for classroom debate mirrors a British tradition.

The rain didn’t stop dozens of community members from showing up at an open house for the latest draft proposal of Blue Hill Avenue redesign at the Grove Hall branch of the Boston Public Library, Nov.

As a young girl, Bithiah Carter would shell buckets and buckets of pigeon peas on the porch of her grandmother’s house in Mississippi. Her grandmother did this because she wanted to use her resources ...