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The Boston City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a U.S. federal judge ordered on Monday.

Mayor Michelle Wu today announced the launch of the City of Boston’s Summer Activation Mini-Grants, a $100,000 investment focused on empowering neighborhood

Just as maddening to residents of our neighborhood is the lack of support by our city government – in this case, the Zoning Board of Appeal (ZBA), district Councillor Frank Baker, and At-large Council members Michael Flaherty, Erin Murphy, Julia Mejia, and Ruthzee Louijeune – in a matter involving a ZBA hearing held to consider the request of a developer to excuse eight zoning

Cadet Program designed to help ensure sworn members of Boston Fire Department better represent City demographic Mayor Michelle Wu today announced members of the

“The rats are going to hate this,” City Councilor Gabriela Coletta quipped about a proposal to create a Boston office dedicated to their extermination.

District 3 Councillor Frank Baker, who developed a reputation over six terms for delivering constituent services and sometimes clashing with mayors and his colleagues on the City Council, isn’t running for reelection. “The privilege and responsibility of serving as a city councilor requires my round-the-clock dedication,” Baker said in a statement last Thursday (April 20). “I

Two out of three Boston Public Schools parents are concerned about their child’s physical safety while in school, according to a new survey by the MassINC Polling Group. Most of those surveyed support having police officers and metal detectors in schools.

Mayor Michelle Wu and the City of Boston Community Preservation Committee (CPC) today announced the approval of 56 projects totaling over $40 million through

There are more centenarians nowadays than ever before, we are told, and like Mattapan’s Anna Coleman, who turned 102 on April 10, they continue to amaze with their lived experiences, their active lifestyles, and their spot-on social critiques. Mrs. Coleman, who has lived in the same home in Mattapan for more than 40 years and is the neighborhood’s oldest resident, was the

While the City Council was bickering yet again over the redrawing of political boundaries, an aide to Mayor Wu was busy launching his campaign for one of the four at-large slots. Henry Santana, a Dorchester resident who grew up in public housing in Mission Hill after immigrating from the Dominican Republic, has served as Wu’s director of civic organizing since April 2022.