Councillors peppered the city’s interim Chief of Streets, Nick Gove, with questions about delays to road and street improvement projects that some argued could result in the loss of substantial federal funding.
The proposed change, which passed an initial signature threshold to make the November ballot, but must first be taken up by the Legislature, would only apply to state and county races, not city elections.
Teen activists demonstrated outside of Mayor Wu’s City Hall office last week and again in front of the Reggie Lewis Track facility on Saturday to call on the city to fund more year-round jobs for youth.
Cuts in spending for youth jobs in the mayor’s budget have ignited outrage among many of those same people who benefitted from employment programs in the past.
Rollins must gather 1,000 signatures by next week to appear on the 2026 ballot.
Despite some modest gains, Blacks and Latinos in Massachusetts are trailing whites in homeownership, business ownership, and wealth accumulation, state officials said during a State House hearing held last week.
Housing activists from across Massachusetts gathered in front of the State House on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to pass rent control legislation.
Activists hoping to halt an ongoing construction park at White Stadium made a public appeal this week ahead of what will likely be a decisive court hearing on April 8.
A long-delayed re-development project in Roxbury is under review, but remains a case study in how changing parking rules from City Hall can impact building projects.
The shooting death of 20-year-old Evaline Barros-Cepeda, who was killed when a Boston police officer opened fire on a suspect car in Dorchester in 2002, sparked a change in BPD policy about firing on vehicles.
City officials hail the White Stadium-pro soccer arrangement as a boon for city students and residents, but opponents say it’s a too-costly intrusion on their use of a public park.
School leaders, teachers, and union officials gathered at the State House on March 4 to outline the challenges facing school districts with high numbers of immigrant students.
A higher percentage of Boston Public Schools students are graduating now than at any other time in the 20 years since the district began keeping track in 2006, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Monday.
Three Boston city councillors last week filed formal requests for information from the Boston Police Department about its collaboration and information sharing with federal law enforcement.
The average Black man in Boston lives to 71.8 years – a life expectancy 9.3 years less than that of other men in Boston and the lowest of all groups included in a study released last week by the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC).
