May 9, 2025 | Vol. 54, Issue 9
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Opinion: New Rowhouse Protection Areas Can Help Stabilize Chinatown

by guest

Over the last 60 years, the buildings in Chinatown and the people who live and work there, have undergone massive changes. The Boston Planning and Development Authority (BPDA) relaunched its lapsed PLAN: Downtown in November with an added focus on post-pandemic revitalization and stands to bring yet another wave of changes. The plan will culminate in new zoning guidelines governing land use, allowable heights, and density, and will encourage mixed use development and a more predictable system of trading larger […]

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I’m Living Through Zero-Covid in Shanghai. Here’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

by Jing Zhao

Before you read this, I just want to clarify one thing: I can only speak from my own experience. That may be different from what’s happening to the rest of my fellow Chinese, but in one way or another, it may also share some similarities with the rest.  The week after the official rescinding of China’s Zero-Covid policy, my boss booked a trip for everyone in my department to spend a few days in a villa in the middle of […]

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Immigrants are Getting the Job Done in America 

by Sonia Cavazos

The pandemic has impacted many aspects of the US economy. We are struggling with some huge labor shortages.  Studies have clearly identified the lack of immigrant workers as a major drain on the labor force. Immigrants have been contributing significantly to the US long before and since Covid in every field, but they are projected to be even more valuable as U.S. born workers move into retirement ages in the next few years and as other US born workers continue […]

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The Slowdown of Our Global Population: Social, Political, and Economic Anxieties

by Jeff Millman

In November of 2022 the world hit 8 billion people. It only took about 12 years for the population to grow from 7 to 8 billion, matching the rapid growth of the past 50 years, but this may be the last time it grows so quickly. Global population growth is slowing, and the UN estimates that it will take 15 years for another billion humans to be born, then 18 years for the next billion, then a slow 32 years […]

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Janet Wu Looks Back on her Award-Winning Career as a Television Political News Reporter

by Christopher John Stephens

The landscape of Asian representation on Boston local television news was certainly different in the 1970s and early 1980s. Stalwarts like Chet Curtis, Jack Williams, John Henning, and Tom Ellis were the faces that brought viewers news of snowstorms, busing and City Hall shenanigans in their stentorian tones and square-shouldered masculinity. Janet Wu’s appearance on the Boston media scene, first as a GBH State House reporter from 1978-1983 and then at WCVB from 1983 until her retirement in December 2022, […]

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