City Council
City Council
Yancey: School Department gets plush new offices, while high-school students get 'substandard' buildings
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Dorotea Manuela explains why she wants a high school in Mattapan.
City Councilor Charles Yancey has a new tactic in his long-running battle to get a high school built in Mattapan: Blasting the city's plan - which he voted for - to spend $115 million moving BPS headquarters from Court Street downtown to the old Ferdinand building in Dudley Square, when nearly 4,000 high-school students attend classes in "substandard" buildings originally built for elementary students or as warehouses. Read more
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City Council to hold hearing on libraries June 3
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The City Council's budget-vetting committee is scheduled to take testimony on the Boston Public Library system's budget on June 3. Read more
(UPDATED) Pressley, Arroyo named to new committees
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UPDATE: The make-up of each committee is posted below.
The City Council's two new at-large councillors are getting two new committees to work with:
-- Ayanna Pressley, the council's first African-American woman, is chairing the Committee on Women and Healthy Communities. The committee will cover city programs on youth, families and new Bostonians. Read more
Two Dorchesterites joining Arroyo in City Hall
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Two of his campaign staffers will be joining Felix Arroyo, the incoming city councillor at-large, at City Hall when his term starts on Jan. 4. Read more
That pesky Section 48
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City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon has often complained that the City Council is powerless under the “strong mayor†system, to the chagrin of some colleagues on the 13-member council. Read more
Mo' money, mo'... likelihood of surviving 9/22, I guess.
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The Boston Phoenix’s David Bernstein crunches the numbers (Thanks, David) and gives us a look at how the fund raising side of the city council at large race is shaping up. Some surprising sums are included, especially among the more conservative/Republican/Libertarian candidates that don’t seem to be able to make headway in the conservative donor scene.
Dot's Pressley joins race for at-large council
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Ayanna Pressley: Candidate for city council at large.It's the "Obama effect", say many political observers, and Boston is not immune. Out of 18 individuals now indicating their intent to run for council at-large, 11 are people of color, likely setting a record for the city.
And the stage is set for another first as Sen. John Kerry's political director Ayanna Pressley is planning to apply for her nomination papers today, according to those close to her campaign. Read more
'Austerity' hallmark of mayor's budget
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When Mayor Thomas Menino unwrapped last year’s city budget, he touted its stability and a host of reconstruction projects.
This year, not so much. If anything, this year’s city budget is highly unstable as state revenues continue to plunge and policymakers have yet to see a bottom. The state’s House of Representatives was set to unveil this week a fiscal 2010 budget even more austere than the governor’s version, with deeper cuts in services and none of the tax increases both Governor Deval Patrick and Menino have pushed for. Read more
