Mayor Marty Walsh took photos Feb. 24 with Chinatown residents at an open house at the Josiah Quincy Elementary School.(Image courtesy of Yiming Zhao.)
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh held his first 2020 open house Feb. 24 at the Boston Centers for Youth and Family Quincy Community Center.
City departments set up booths and handed out flyers, with staffers answering questions from residents. Walsh made the rounds, speaking to and taking photos with residents at the event.
If you dine at local Chinese restaurants, you’ve probably been served a container of duck sauce, a versatile sweet and sour sauce that is commonly used for dipping fried foods, from eggrolls to chicken fingers, fried wontons to crab rangoons. It has become such a familiar sauce that you can find it at non-Chinese restaurants too, especially with an order of chicken fingers. What is the origin of this curious sauce? Theories abound about its origin, most believing it acquired its name […]
As hiring practices adapt during the pandemic, the turn towards virtual interviews and skills assessments has exacerbated the accessibility barriers that low-income and minority applicants face. A survey conducted by job listings website Indeed.com found that out of 500 employers across 16 sectors and 12 cities, more than four in five employers have started virtual hiring during the pandemic. Yet, far fewer, 26%, found the virtual hiring process effective, with 22% believing the shift was the right way forward, while […]
