An environmentalist is asking a federal judge to issue an order prohibiting vertical lobster trap lines while right whales are off the coast of Massachusetts.
Right whales, considered endangered, sometimes wrap themselves around the lines, which run from the trap on the bottom to a buoy floating on the surface. The whales are sometimes injured and some die, according to the lawsuit.
Private housing is too expensive in American cities, public housing is ailing, and the way to fix the problem is to spend $70 billion over the next five years to improve government housing developments, several prominent Democrats said Monday.
Three members of Congress and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh made an appearance at a public housing development in South Boston now named for the mother of U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch, who said recent physical improvements there have raised the quality of life considerably.
