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For a vision of how the JP Whole Foods debate might have gone differently, look to Brooklyn. On Tuesday, a city panel was to have decided whether to give a special permit for the org...
News
More than 250 people attended the second annual "State of Jamaica Plain" at English High School last Thursday. The event brought together residents and politicians, with an aim of st...
Business
It's all over the news how Boston rents have hit record highs. So Sylvia Kim set out to talk to residents about their rents. In a random sample, she found residents were, perhaps surprisi...
Government
It was the end of an era, of sorts, at JP Neighborhood Council Tuesday night. The council dissolved its last group working on Whole Foods and assigned future discussions on the broad...
Business
Persons opposed to Whole Foods' new store in JP are asking for a boycott of the store until the grocer signs a Community Benefits Agreement. The grocer has repeatedly stated that it ...
News
Organizing has begun toward an "Occupy JP" movement. The group, which lists as its aim "to defend working-class and poor people against the dictatorship of Wall Street," met Sunday at Doy...
Business
A group of about 20 protesters held signs, chanted and rallied outside Whole Foods on Halloween evening of the day the grocery store opened. The group called on Whole Foods Market to...
Business
Word got out by online media and social media Monday morning after Whole Foods had sent out a press release: the store was opening two days earlier than they had planned, or said it would...