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The Boston City Council’s failed redistricting process left taxpayers on the hook for more than $700,000 in legal fees associated with a lawsuit that forced a federal judge to throw out an electoral map that likely violated the Constitution.

A local Republican leader says a progressive Boston city councilor reneged on her promise to allow a panel of opponents to testify at an upcoming hearing weighing voting rights for immigrants with “legal status” but without full citizenship.

The Boston City Council shot down a proposal from the body’s president, Ed Flynn, who was seeking the creation of a new committee focused on domestic violence.

Despite the arguments in favor, several readers said that the proposal should be a “non-starter” for Boston politicians.

Christopher Belling, a decorated former prosecutor who has tried some of the regions highest-profile criminal cases, is seeking the Democratic endorsement for Erie County district attorney, he told The Buffalo

A political power struggle over one of the crown jewels of the Massachusetts hackerama is reaching a crescendo with rumors rampant about the future of the convention center authority’s executive director.

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.

The Boston City Council is considering a measure that would grant immigrants with “legal status” but without full citizenship the right to vote in local elections. Councilor Kendra Lara, a

The Boston City Council is considering a measure that would grant immigrants with “legal status” but without full citizenship the right to vote in local elections.

In some ways, this year’s election for Boston City Council was like its predecessor in 2007. There was no race for mayor, no preliminary round for candidates at-large, and a citywide incumbent named Murphy finished second, with a strong showing in Dorchester, South Boston and West Roxbury. But in 2023, the top vote-getter running at-large in 2007—and even in 2021, Michael