After more than a decade, Commonwealth Avenue safety project loses funding — merged into Green Line study
Portland’s Maine-born population has dropped to 40%. Is that a problem?
At the top of Munjoy Hill on a weekday morning this month, residents of the neighborhood crisscrossed Congress Street carrying coffee cups and holding dog leashes. Among them were an international student at Southern Maine Community College, a Washington Avenue restaurant owner originally from Massachusetts, a filmmaker who relocated from Michigan in 2019 and a Vermont native who moved here three years ago, maybe for good.
Beautiful Maine city’s native population drops by a third since 2000… and no one born in state will live there by 2050 if trend continues
A demographic shift is underway in Portland, where the number of residents born in Maine has plummeted by almost a third in the last 25 years. As of 2024, just 40 percent of the city’s population was Maine-born, per the latest American Community Survey. It means natives are now outnumbered by transplants in the city, stark change from 2000 where 59 percent of Portland’s residents were from within the Pine State.
What do former grisly mob haunts say about modern day Greater Boston?
Where there was once bloody violence and criminal plotting, there is now preaching of salvation and grace. The auto garage that once acted as the de facto headquarters for one of Greater Boston’s most notorious organized crime outfits of the past century is now the Greater Works Church of God Somerville.
As the Coal Industry Fades, Life Expectancies in Coal Country Shift
The coal industry can damage human health in myriad ways via dangerous working conditions and harmful pollution. But the income opportunities offered by the industry can also provide much-needed stability for certain communities, such as those in Appalachia’s coal country.
Are Brookline’s property taxes high? It depends how you measure
On May 5, Brookline voters will decide whether to approve a tax override, which would bring in $23.25 million for town services by hiking property taxes permanently. How residents vote may depend on whether they think taxes here are already too high. But it’s a question that eludes a simple answer.
SPH studies link infertility to living in redlined neighborhood, decades after redlining outlawed
Two studies led by researchers at Boston University’s School of Public Health are the first to identify a connection between redlining, a historically racist housing policy, and a lower likelihood of pregnancy. “Our hypothesis here was that we know that Black populations have higher rates of infertility. We know they’re also more likely to be exposed to historical neighborhood redlining,” said Mary Willis, an assistant professor of epidemiology at SPH who co-authored the first paper and was first author on the second.
CDS prepares to send off first ever matriculant students, reflects on growth
Every college at Boston University celebrates its graduating class each May— but for members of Computing and Data Sciences, the class of 2026 is particularly special.
The weekend of May 14, CDS will celebrate the graduation of its first-ever undergraduate class. The cohort first entered the program in 2022, and have helped develop CDS in its formative years since its founding in 2019.
SPH in India: Partnering for Progress on Disease, Climate, and Sanitation
As India launches its first national census in 15 years following a COVID-related postponement from 2021, researchers at the School of Public Health and their Indian collaborators foresee opportunities to strengthen and scale their existing portfolios of work on air pollution, sanitation access, tuberculosis, and maternal and child health in the world’s most populous country.
National WIC Association, 13 Food and Nutrition Organizations Reject the Trump Administration’s Proposal to Cut WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Benefits
Late Friday afternoon, the White House released President Trump’s budget request for fiscal year 2026. This budget proposal outlines the programs Trump wants Congress to slash—or eliminate entirely—when they vote on government funding. The proposal includes severe reductions to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), threatening the health and nutrition of millions of low-income families.