Boston Residents Want Walmart

(Boston, Massachusetts) It appears that folks are making noise about getting Walmart in town. They want low prices and jobs. Unfortunately, Mayor Thomas Merino and anti-Walmart activists are in the way.

Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Massachusetts, ratcheted up the debate last week when he told the Boston Business Journal the city should “embrace a project that would bring jobs for residents.” Williams could not be reached for comment yesterday.

But Horace Small, executive director the Union of Minority Neighborhoods, an advocacy group in Jamaica Plain, countered,

“I understand that the black community has been decimated by double-digit unemployment, but we should not settle for just any jobs.”

Heh.