TRANSCRIPT: This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Luis Hernandez: The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld a ban on sleeping or camping in public places, a decision that’s left many people experiencing homelessness with no place to go. Advocates in New Bedford have responded by encouraging the city to build its own city-run […]
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Posted inHousing, Local
A Massachusetts law requires some towns to add more multi-family housing. Will it work?
As Rhode Island continues to search for ways to increase its housing stock, a new law in Massachusetts is requiring cities and towns across the state to change their zoning regulations to allow more multi-family housing. The MBTA Communities Act, which was signed into law in 2021 but goes into effect this year, requires communities […]
Posted inArts And Culture, Artscape, Local, South Coast Bureau
El Patio de Comidas: Summer-long celebration of Central American cuisine provides a launch pad for local businesses
Hundreds gather in New Bedford’s Riverside Park on Saturdays throughout the summer to enjoy Latin American food from local vendors who got their start through the Patio de Comidas initiative. The series, which also features music, dancing, and local goods, concludes on Saturday with a grand finale: the Festival Tipico de Guatemala.
Posted inEducation, Local
A new report says some New Bedford schools are segregated. What can we learn from the city’s desegregation efforts of the 1970s and 80s?
TRANSCRIPT: This transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Luis Hernandez: Ten district and charter schools in New Bedford have been designated as segregated in a new report from the state education department’s Racial Imbalance Advisory Council. Segregation in schools is not new for New Bedford, but in the 1970s and 80s, there were […]
Posted inLocal, New England News Collaborative
After more than a century, women take a formal role in New Bedford’s massive Madeiran Feast
New Bedford’s Feast of the Blessed Sacrament, a cultural festival with religious roots, is billed as the largest Portuguese feast in the world. It’s more than a century old, but this year, behind the scenes, something very big is changing. For the first time — and under threat of a lawsuit — women have been allowed to join the Feast Committee.
Posted inImmigration, Labor, Local, South Coast Bureau
Police press charges in a second sexual harassment case at New Bedford Market Basket
Police have criminally charged a second Market Basket employee for alleged sexual misconduct at the company’s New Bedford supermarket. Juana DeLeon Quinilla, an employee who has chosen to speak publicly under her real name, is accusing a colleague of flashing his penis to her while she cleaned the men’s bathroom and grabbing her butt and […]
Posted inImmigration, Local
New driver’s license law creates backlog for Mass. community group helping undocumented immigrants apply
For over six months now, undocumented immigrants in Massachusetts have been able to get driver’s licenses, under the Work and Family Mobility Act that took effect last July. The controversial measure took nearly two-decades to pass and allows people to obtain a learner’s permit or driver’s license regardless of their immigration status. One of them […]
Posted inArticle, Immigration, Labor, Local
Federal child labor investigation into New Bedford’s seafood processing industry expanded
The U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its investigation into possible child labor law violations in New Bedford’s seafood processing industry.
Posted inArticle, Business, Local, Politics
U.S. Senators discuss crisis of migrant children working dangerous jobs
Lawmakers also introduced multiple new bills intended to better protect migrant teens from labor exploitation.
Posted inBusiness, En Español, Immigration, Labor
Las jornadas de 21 horas de un adolescente en New Bedford
Cómo un adolescente inmigrante intentó combinar entre ir al bachillerato y trabajar en las noches en una procesadora de productos del mar.