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Bachrach supports MBTA reform, elimination of county government, improvement of services for the elderly, the bottle bill, and property tax reform though means other than Proposition...
...racially tense city still doubt the Covenant's effectiveness. Two people with a lot of questions are Richard and Kathleen Doherty of Dorchester, whose 19-year-old son Michael died in a unique situation last March. Michael, a student at Boston English High School, was at the Columbia MBTA station when he noticed three white youths attacking a Black man. He approached them and told them to stop. The white youths turned on Doherty and chased him onto the Southeast Expressway, where a car struck and killed him. When it happened, the significance of his action was nearly unrecognized...
...THREE MBTA STOPS and a short walk away a healthy herd of 800 Boston Brahmins munched on dessert and slurped the last of the champagne at Anthony's Pier 4. They were waiting to see why they dropped $500 each for lunch; they wanted to see Carter, and they wanted to hear him say something important...
...wail of police sirens seldom subsides at the Academy Homes. Alpha Security guards constantly patrol the buildings, and the walls of the MBTA's orange line--which slices through the project--are almost completely obscured by graffiti. Poor, extended and usually fatherless families occupy the two massive structures which rise out of the haze and debris of Roxbury. Most of the adults are alcoholics or drug addicts. The children--who comprise more than 60 per cent of the residents--run in gangs, calling themselves the Warlocks, the Crazy Homicides or the Wild Bunch. The environment is not conducive...
...Fresh Pond is a favorite place for my family--one of my nicest memories was the morning I discovered a kingfisher lived there... The new taxes that just came out are not among the nicest memories. Neither is the MBTA." --Hubert Jessup...