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By State Senator Pat Jehlen

This is my second piece about rent stabilization. Here’s the first one.

Channel 25 ran a story about the conflict between renters and homebuyers vs. investors. They “found when investors use limited liability companies or LLCs to purchase properties – they can be hard to track.” Rep. Uyterhoeven’s bill, H3566, would allow identification of the owners of LLCs.

Don’t forget to set your clocks forward this weekend. March 10, Daylight Saving Time starts. When local standard time is about to reach Sunday, March 10, 2:00 a.m., clocks are turned forward one hour to Sunday, March 10, 3:00 a.m. local daylight time instead. Sunrise and sunset will be about one hour later on Mar 10 than the day before. There will be more light in the evening.

The Lunar New Year Rolling Parade rolled into Somerville last Sunday in celebration of the 4722nd Lunar New Year. ~Photos by Bobbie Toner

On Sunday, March 3, Mayor Katjana Ballantyne joined leaders and members of the Boston, Belmont, Cambridge, and Malden communities to celebrate the fourth Lunar New Year Rolling Parade which kicked off at the Lions Gate in Chinatown Boston at noon.

Eagle Feathers #299 – Brick Solid

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Brick manufacturing in Massachusetts began as early as 1629, the year of Charlestown’s charter.

In 1678, Charlestown’s Peter Tufts built a brick home for his son in Medford. It is the oldest brick house in New England. Through the years, this extended Tufts family became large landowners and brick makers in both Medford and Somerville.

Who thought this thing up anyway? Spring forward, fall back. Or is that fall forward, spring back? The only way we can ever be sure is if we’re early or late for church Sunday morning, or whatever it is you do on Sunday morning.

To be fair, there’s usually someone around smart enough to know the difference, if it isn’t you yourself.

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I recently caught up with printmaker Liv Cappello, who recently took up a space at the Vernon Street Studios.  She went to college in the hinterlands of Vermont, and is now in the Paris of New England – Somerville, MA – perfecting her craft.

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Janelle Solviletti is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of two poetry collections, Euphony and The Cameo. Previously, she published works in Matter, The Horn Pond Review, The Feathertale Review and The Lyrical Somerville. She attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and currently lives and works in Boston.

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Poor and low-wage people joined Massachusetts Poor People’s Campaign Tri-Chairs Savina Martin and Vaughn Allen Goodwin; partners 1199SEIU, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement Greater Boston Chapter, Massachusetts Peace Action, Housing = Health, and others; the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts and faith leaders from other denominations; and advocates and allies from across the state for a mass assembly at the 54th Regiment Memorial on Boston Common (across from the Boston statehouse) to launch a 40-week effort to mobilize poor and low-wage voters in Massachusetts, and demand legislators take immediate action to end the crisis of death by poverty in the United States. The Boston assembly was one of more than 30 coordinated efforts across the country.