After almost two decades of periodic campaigns for recovery and improvement, the MBTA in 2026 is still vulnerable to weather, and increasingly buffeted by stiffening headwinds in global trade.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and thirteen city councillors began their new terms on Monday, marking a new year with a 250th anniversary bow to homegrown heroics in the War of Independence.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s making a new push to reduce sticker shock for residential property owners when the next tax bills come out in January.
As more people in the Boston area feel squeezed by the housing market, they’re facing a new hurdle: a drop in the economic growth that normally spurs new construction.
Mayor Wu hailed her “state of the schools” address on Oct. 28 as a “historic” first, but it followed a series of high-profile moves by her predecessors to exert leadership over Boston’s public education.
New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared more than twenty years ago is diverging into new patterns, whether in high-income suburbs or in Boston schools.
New studies show a Greater Boston population becoming more racially diverse, but also more disconnected by income, and by shifting educational choices following the Covid-19 pandemic. As multiple figures show, the “big sort” declared more than twenty years ago is diverging into new patterns, whether in high-income suburbs or in Boston schools.
Total numbers from Boston’s Sept. 9 preliminary election reaffirm the time-tested advantage for an incumbent mayor, but a closer look at vote counts and campaign funding gives rise to a less familiar story.
Eighteen years ago, Michelle Wu, a Chicago native and recent Harvard graduate with a degree in Economics, was working in the private sector for a consulting firm when a family crisis changed the course of her life, calling her home to Illinois, then back to Boston, this time with a new sense of mission.
More than ten years after the closing of the Long Island Bridge, and twenty years into a national opioid crisis, a top official in Boston has declared the city’s efforts to resolve the drug-use problem in its South End neighborhood a failure.
