5 Investigates reveals the number of politically well-connected people winning luxury Boston condos at deep discounts, raising questions of equitable access to the program.
An “embarrassing” vote by the Boston City Council has led to movement on Beacon Hill, where a bill that would strip the body of its authority to approve public safety grants was referred to a legislative committee for further review.
Gov. Maura Healey’s new chair of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, who just engineered the ouster of executive director David Gibbons, faced accusations of being a “stumbling block” to diversity while she was a top official in Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s administration.
“I know this has been a longtime coming for the community to have the solid guarantee that this space will be here forever more, preserved as a treasure of history in Boston,” Mayor Michelle Wu said of the North End's Nazzaro Community Center.
Hours after the latest mass shooting in Boston, City Councilor Michael Flaherty took another swipe at his colleagues, who voted down $2.5 million in state grants for the investigative arm of the city’s police department.