Boston’s plan to tackle the open-air drug market at Mass and Cass is a failure. Now what? Boston Public Health Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu admitted that the city’s plan to deal with recurrent issue of ...

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft hammered Mayor Michelle Wu over worsening conditions in neighborhoods taxed by Mass and Cass spillover, saying that the problem has gotten so out of control that ...

HE JOINS US LIVE RIGHT NOW. PETER. YEAH. SO THAT MEMO, IT SUPPLEMENTS A PREVIOUS ONE THAT WENT OUT IN FEBRUARY, AND IT PLANS TO CUT BACK ON CONTROVERSIAL MEASURES LIKE NEEDLE DISTRIBUTION AROUND HERE ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston City Councilor John Fitzgerald says its time for other Massachusetts cities and towns to pay up after years of Boston footing the bill for the drug crisis and homelessness at ...

The Boston City Council on Wednesday is set to consider a resolution filed by Councilor Ed Flynn to declare a public safety and public health emergency over open drug use and dealing around the ...

Dr. Jim O’Connell hardly ever saw people living in tents, let alone encampments of people sleeping on the streets, during the first three decades of his 40-year career treating Boston’s homeless. The ...

DANNY. THAT’S RIGHT. MARIA RESIDENTS TELL ME THEY HAVE BEEN PLEADING WITH THE CITY TO DO MORE ABOUT THIS GROWING ISSUE. THEY SAY IT’S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE IN RECENT MONTHS. THE CONDITIONS NOW ARE ABOUT ...

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft backed a city councilor’s plea to issue an emergency declaration at the Mass and Cass open-air drug market, while calling on Mayor Michelle Wu to explain her plan ...

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A man standing up from a wheelchair prepares to inject himself with a needle on Southampton Street in the Mass. and Cass area of Boston. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) The debate over how to deal with ...

Brendan Little is a policy strategist, filmmaker, and writer. Media coverage about public drug use at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard has been consistent. Every few ...

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn has proposed a resolution to declare a public safety and health emergency regarding the ongoing open drug use and other concerning issues occurring at the city’s Mass.