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By Adam Swift The City Council is asking Acting Mayor Patrick Keefe to look into the feasibility of a city grant program for residents and small businesses who have been affected by water main breaks. Councillor-at-Large and Legislative Affairs subcommittee chair Steve Morabito filed the request, which initially sought to ask the mayor to establish

By Adam Swift There was little change in the vote totals as a result of the mayoral election recount that was held on Saturday. Mayor-Elect Patrick Keefe finished the recount with 4,933 to 4,570 for Councillor-at-Large Dan Rizzo. The total number of voters remained at 9,660. Keefe picked up one vote and Rizzo picked up

By Adam Swift The City Council unanimously approved a $30,000 supplemental appropriation on Monday night to pay for this weekend’s mayoral election recount. Last week, the Board of Election Commissioners approved Dan Rizzo’s filing for a recount in his race against Patrick Keefe on Nov. 7. The unofficial count had Keefe on top by approximately

By Adam Swift A recount of the city’s Nov. 7 mayoral election has been approved by the city’s Board of Election Commissioners. Councillor-at-Large Dan Rizzo successfully filed for the recount after losing the race to Acting Mayor Patrick Keefe by a little over 350 votes in the unofficial results. On Monday night, the Board of

Dan Rizzo, who trails acting mayor Patrick Keefe, is implying that some votes were not counted.

The winners and losers weren’t all on the ballot, from Boston to Revere.

By Adam Swift In a closely contested race, Patrick Keefe topped Dan Rizzo to become Revere’s next mayor. Keefe came out ahead by 330 votes on the unofficial count, 4,852 to 4,522. There was little love lost between the two candidates on the campaign trail in a race that featured Keefe, the acting mayor and

Despite being an off year, the 2023 elections were pretty eventful across New England: Republicans scored a small victory in the Massachusetts Senate, progressives picked up a seat on Boston’s City Council and four sitting Bay State mayors got knocked out of office. Here are some of last night's most notable results.

By Adam Swift The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), the City of Revere, and the Revere Housing Authority (RHA) celebrated the launch of the first “Apartment Wi-Fi” program to increase access to affordable and reliable high-speed internet for residents of Greater Boston. The organizations worked together to procure, contract, and implement a solution that provides

A few candidates faced controversy amid their races for election over the past few months. Some came out on the other side, unscathed and able to secure enough votes to serve as their city’s mayor, and some did not.