A new poll released by a Boston think tank shows a majority of city voters favor the mayor’s plan to increase commercial tax rates to offset declining property values in that sector, rather than taxing homeowners more or cutting the budget.
Gov. Maura Healey voiced her support for how police were deployed to clear recent pro-Palestinian encampments at Northeastern University and Emerson College.
A fiscal watchdog is cautioning Mayor Michelle Wu against moving forward with her plan to raise property taxes on Boston businesses beyond the state limit, saying that there are better alternatives that won’t hurt the city’s economy.
Amid its spat with the Wu administration, the Boston Landmarks Commission is being accused of overreaching its authority by pushing to designate the interior of a private property a historic landmark to kill the owners’ housing development plans.
William Gross, the first Black commissioner of the Boston Police Department, says he’s feeling “perturbed” that the North End is being singled out with heavy restrictions on outdoor dining.
Mayor Wu planned on stopping by Harvard on Tuesday for a discussion with students on her life and political career, but the event is canceled due to her decision to shut down the Emerson encampment.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said she directed police to take down an Emerson College student encampment for public safety reasons, thereby empowering the commissioner to make 108 arrests to enforce the city ordinance it was violating.
“I have been woken up by cartels in all black and camouflage at three in the morning. I don’t mess with ‘em,” he said. It is this lurking danger which weighs most heavily on residents.
Quincy Mayor Tom Koch's salary could spike to $370,000 under a recommendation to the City Council -- possibly a 132% jump from his current salary of less than $160,000.
The head of a Boston commission that publicly slammed the Wu administration’s handling of a number of hot-button projects and “unprecedented disregard” for state laws that govern its preservation work was fired by the mayor last week.