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Lest we forget. The fear, the weeks of waiting, the vivid force of the eyewitness testimony; the replaying of grisly footage and then the shock of the conviction: the whole drama of the Derek Chauvin trial its obscenity and thin catharsis would not have taken place at all were it not for last year’s riots. Police trials are rare. So is national uprising: looting, acts of vandalism, and the nightly carnival of torched police cars are what vaulted George Floyd’s death from single cruelty to American crisis, as the fires of Minneapolis swept through every major city. It feels both near and far now.
By Katie Pedersen, Reporter Correspondent
May 6, 2021
Gail Latimore
Since the first uncertain weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation (NDC) has continued to offer desperately needed services to Dorchester residents even as its physical office remained closed.
Tracing its roots to local activism in the 1970s and 1980s, the non-profit has worked to promote affordable housing, homeownership, equitable transit options, and economic development in Codman Square for more than 40 years. The pandemic only added to the group’s already monumental workload, said executive director Gail Latimore in an interview.
“We’re working on the same body of work that we’ve always done, which is affordable housing and commercial development, including the economic line of business, the community organizing line of business, and the development line of business.”
May 6, 2021
Via the American Rescue Plan, Joe Biden and the current U.S. Congress are re-ordering the small business economy in America in a way they may not have thought through, and the consequences will reverberate throughout the economy for years to come.
Washington is about to replace most of the lost revenue of small businesses in a few select industries while leaving nearly all other small businesses hung out to dry. If you run a local movie theater, a live music venue, or a restaurant, you will be given a grant from Uncle Sam to help you build back after COVID-19. Yet hair and nail salons, independent bookstores, travel companies, junk haulers, business brokers, and countless other businesses are on their own.
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When they purchased it in 2018, the owners of Westside Bowl created an event venue for live music that offered bowling and food on the side. Carryout food was a lifeline when COVID-19 shut down the venue.
Youngstown’s
Westside Bowl, which primarily operates as a music venue, planned to celebrate its two-year anniversary with a party and performance from local rock band
Rebreather in spring 2020.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit the area, and live music events in the venue were put on hold indefinitely.
Westside Bowl contains two main spaces in the building and allows for bowling and dining.
But with live music postponed for the foreseeable future, its main source of revenue was stripped away during the shutdown.