Black Lives Matter inspired me to ask city officials about the funding and inner-workings of the Malden police department.
Category: Informational
What’s the ruling?
Given what soccer means to me now, it’s embarrassing to remember how little I knew about it when I went to see the U.S. Women’s National Team play in the 1999 World Cup against North Korea. I had a fantastic time, moving forward and back on my seat, popping up and yelling “YES!” then “uuuuuh” […]
The NAMES Project Quilt as a New Public Ceremony, 1989
While the first names were being read, the quilt unfolders squeezed one anothers' hands in a last strength-sharing gesture, and then dropped their arms, bent down towards their squares of fabric, and slowly unfolded the squares
Improvements needed in Malden Center
It’s time to finally write my rant about Malden’s city hall, a.k.a. “government center.” The short story is that the building was built smack dab in the middle of Pleasant Street and now blocks access to that commercial area, and that the building and area around it create a hostile rather than welcoming environment. In […]
