CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short.
On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president of CVS Health's pharmacy unit and a federal judge in Washington.
BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh will get a break from the clouds that have formed over City Hall as a result of an ongoing investigation into "union-related extortion" thanks to a White House invitation to a conference on gun violence Tuesday.
Walsh and Boston Police Commissioner William Evans will both travel to Washington for a State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Convening Tuesday morning. Walsh will speak to the assembled group from all 50 states during an afternoon session at the White House featuring remarks from Vice President Joe Biden, according to a statement from the mayor's press staff.
