Sonia Chang-Diaz
Should entire city get to vote on casino in East Boston?
By adamg - 9/23/11 - 5:38 amState Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz wants to extend a referendum provision of the proposed state gambling bill from the area immediately around a casino to an entire municipality. The Dorchester Reporter explains why everybody in Boston should have a say in whether Suffolk Downs becomes a casino.
Chang-Diaz on representing the most multi-culti senate district in the state
By adamg - 7/29/11 - 1:03 pmDon't worry, the WF words don't come up once in the Dig interview.
Sonia Chang-Diaz apparently sick of Whole Foods issue
By adamg - 7/27/11 - 7:24 amThe Jamaica Plain Gazette reports the JP Neighborhood Council has formed a five-member bargaining committee to try to wrangle a "community benefits agreement" out of Whole Foods. The move comes after council members talked to local groups and politicians about the impending store - but not Chang-Diaz, who refused to talk to them. You may recall it was Chang-Diaz who first proposed Whole Foods help start an affordable-housing fund or stay out of JP.
At a meeting last month, the council noted that Stop & Shop signed one of these agreements as a condition of moving onto city-owned land off Centre Street. Whole Foods has a lease to move into the vacant Hi-Lo property.
Chang-Diaz: Whole Foods needs to create affordable-housing fund or stay the hell away from JP
By adamg - 5/1/11 - 11:16 amThe Jamaica Plain Gazette posts a copy of a letter from state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz to the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council's Whole Foods Ad Hoc Committee, in which she says the benefits of 100 decent paying jobs and better access to healthy food are outweighed by displacement of poor people by the well to do:
We stand to lose many of these families, and their friends and neighbors, if property taxes and rents balloon so fast that their incomes can’t keep up. In order to preserve the character of JP that we all love and believe in so deeply, development has to happen at a pace our neighbors can benefit from, not be displaced by.
A progressive voter guide for JP and surrounding neighborhoods
By adamg - 9/5/10 - 9:44 pmThe Jamaica Plain Progressives posts answers to questionnaires sent to candidates in the 2nd Suffolk state senate race (Sonia Chang-Diaz and Hassan Williams), the 15th Suffolk state rep's race (Jeff Sanchez and Jeff Herman) and the 6th Suffolk state rep's race (Russell Holmes and Divo Rodrigues Monteiro; other candidates did not reply).
Chang-Diaz vs. Williams in the 2nd Suffolk
By adamg - 8/27/10 - 7:14 amThe South End News reports on a debate between one-term incumbent state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz and Democratic challenger Hassan Williams.
Jamaica Pond fish story
By adamg - 4/7/09 - 12:10 pmSteve Garfield provides a video report from today's annual re-stocking of Jamaica Pond:
Featured in the video is Ken Simmons, Chief of Hatcheries, State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz, and a big brown trout.
Last year:
Is Deval Patrick floundering?
Chang-Diaz winning big
By adamg - 11/4/08 - 9:10 pmLatest results, also show Obama winning Boston, Question 1 losing in the city, Question 2 winning, Question 3 winning, but not by much.
What a difference an arrest makes
By adamg - 11/3/08 - 3:26 pmMike Ball reports he visited Dianne Wilkerson's campaign headquarters today - and found a couple of wistful "diehards" still handing out stickers - and then took a trip to Sonia Chang-Diaz's headquarters, where he found the candidate herself doing some desk work:
... While several workers used the phones or recorded poll-worker assignments, she was calm. You'd expect that of an almost certain winner, but I have never seen her otherwise. The closest to flustered I've seen her was in her happiness at the post-primary party at the Alchemist in September. ...
