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New Bedford gay bar owners look back on 40 years of change in the country and the city

by Jack Spillane July 13, 2022July 14, 2022

Guiding lights in a storm, they shepherded New Bedford’s LGBTQ+ community through decades of public rejection and finally found its rainbow in the years following the legalizations of same-sex marriage.

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Advocates: New Bedford’s COVID-19 relief funds should be spent on affordable housing

by Jack Spillane February 20, 2022February 21, 2022

The housing crisis has worsened over the last several years, and both New Bedford and Fall River have now joined larger cities in seeing rental and mortgage prices increase beyond the reach of average working people — particularly young people starting out.

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Local Cape Verdean women empowered by effort to recapture ancestors’ history

by Jack Spillane February 15, 2022February 17, 2022

“At a distance, I see my silent sister Santa Luzia / Watching over me / Finally, I land to open arms at Cabral’s door in Sal / As I transcend in this vast sea of history / Engraved in me”
– Iva Brito, from the poem “Nos Terra (Our Land)”

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Councilors’ stance on arts funding stalls Mitchell’s bid to use pandemic relief funds

by Jack Spillane February 9, 2022February 9, 2022

It’s a mystery, really, why a number of councilors should resent the growth of arts and tourist attractions that bring diners, shoppers and visitors to the city year round.

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Community Preservation Act could fuel 3 affordable housing projects

by Jack Spillane February 3, 2022February 7, 2022

These government incentive-grants have enabled the preservation and reuse development of historic structures across the city for what New Bedford greatly needs right now — a larger and better-quality affordable housing stock.

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Lack of education may be the root of New Bedford’s COVID struggles

by Jack Spillane January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

Both local and national talk radio, along with powerful national cable television shows, pump out a constant stream of conspiracy stories about the vaccines and masks.

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Innovators Charter School sparks now-familiar struggle in New Bedford

by Jack Spillane January 25, 2022February 8, 2022

There is nothing quite so discouraging to the hopes for the future of New Bedford as this never-ending, always acrimonious debate over each new charter school as they open or expand.

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New Bedford City Council mask meltdown illustrates the deep divisions in our country

by Jack Spillane January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

So the careless grocery shoppers are determining how dangerous the trip to the supermarket will be for everybody else. The folks who just won’t mask up decide how much more stress the poor, overburdened nurses and doctors’ families from St. Luke’s will have to suffer through.

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Hovan takes advantage of closed hearing and connected lawyers

by Jack Spillane January 18, 2022January 28, 2022

People who live here would want to know why Keith Hovan has chosen to accumulate all these guns and ammunition in a town that is more and more like a suburb than a rural community.

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When it comes to inaugural ceremonies, New Bedford likes to do it big

by Jack Spillane January 6, 2022January 14, 2022

What’s wrong with City Council members being sworn in right in their own chambers, where they do the people’s business? What’s wrong with the new School Committee members taking the oath of office in the school auditorium?

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