July 22 was a day of victory to many Chinatown residents and civic rights advocates, for it was the day in which the bill to legislate bilingual ballots with transliterated names in Chinese and Vietnamese was passed by the state Senate. The bill has been...
Governor Deval Patrick will sign legislation on Friday that proponents say will overhaul a criminal records system and reduce crime by easing access to jobs for former criminals.
The governor is scheduled to sign the bill on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Fr...
Ward maps, news articles and pictures hung on the walls of Sonia Chang-Diaz’s campaign headquarters on Sunday, June 27 as friends, family and residents gathered inside to kick-off the 2nd Suffolk District State Senator’s reelection campaign.
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Two hours before he was installed yesterday as the Twelfth Baptist Church’s new pastor, Arthur T. Gerald Jr. was recruiting members of his congregation to walk through the sprawling Warren Gardens Housing development and other crime-plagued areas in the...
Rapidly advancing legislation to encourage safer driving will likely lead to more racial profiling, according to the chief proponent of a bill calling for collection of more data on traffic stops. Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said her data collection bill is sti...
“We should not be balancing our state’s books on the backs of the poor,’’ said Sonia Chang-Diaz, a Jamaican Plain Democrat, reiterating her argument that casinos are a “tax on the poor.’’
Sen. Sonia Chang Diaz, D-Boston, cited a study that showed lower-income working families will lose a larger percentage of their incomes to gaming, and the casino profits will be fueled by the paychecks of working men and women.
BOSTON—Activists pointing to the recent shooting deaths of two Boston teens are pressuring state lawmakers to pass a sweeping gun bill backed by Gov. Deval Patrick.
Patrick's bill would limit Massachusetts gun buyers to one firearm per month and stre...
I applaud the Globe for calling attention to the issue of youth violence (“Somewhere to turn,’’ Brian McGrory, Metro, June 2).The murders of Jaewon Martin and Nicholas Fomby-Davis are an unspeakable tragedy, and while my prayers go out to the famil...
--The Senate narrowly rejected in a 16 to 22 vote upping funds for youth summer jobs programs to $8 million from $4 million. Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz said the jobs were important to keep Boston youth off the street and uninvolved in the violence. Chang-Diaz ...
Governor Deval Patrick will sign legislation on Friday that proponents say will overhaul a criminal records system and reduce crime by easing access to jobs for former criminals.
The governor is scheduled to sign the bill on Friday at 10 a.m. at the Fr...
Boston, MA - State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz praised her colleagues for a successful end of the legislative session, heralding passage of CORI reform, foreclosure reform and other issues she had made top priorities for her first term.
“When I came t...
The state Senate yesterday unanimously approved legislation aimed at stabilizing neighborhoods by providing eviction protection to tenants in foreclosed homes and helping homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure.
The Senate approved the Act to Stabil...
THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in Massachusetts hovers at 9 percent. In urban neighborhoods across the Commonwealth, that rate is sometimes more than double, with some estimates as high as 24 percent. These numbers have an obvious and painful impact on the economi...
With home foreclosures continuing to rise in the Commonwealth in spite of the slowly improving economy, the Senate and House today sent final consumer protection legislation to the Governor that protects both homeowners and tenants from mortgage fraud and...
