BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh and the Brighton Marine Health Center have teamed up to end homelessness among veterans in the city, under a partnership announced Wednesday in honor of Veteran's Day.
Brighton Marine has set up a $200,000 endowment to assist the Mayor's Homes for the Brave program, according to a statement from City Hall. Walsh began the initiative to help find permanent housing for veterans in June 2014 in response to First Lady Michelle Obama's challenge to mayors to end homelessness among vets by the end of this year.
STATE HOUSE — The backer of a bill that would give Greater Boston-area bars the ability to stay open past 2 a.m. after obtaining local permission told fellow lawmakers Tuesday that the time is not right to extend last call later into the night.
"My view is that this is something we should not act on in this session," Sen. William Brownsberger, a Belmont Democrat whose district includes the Boston neighborhoods of Back Bay, Fenway and Brighton, told the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. "We should give the city time to give it further study. We should give it some further study, but in fact, it's just not ready for primetime as a concept."
