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Mayor Michelle Wu on Friday evening released her effort to redraw the lines of the City Council’s nine district seats, coming days after a federal judge nixed a previously enacted map and upended Boston’s political sector.
A federal judge has told the City Council that it has to redraw the map of the political boundaries of its nine district seats that councillors had approved last fall after sparring over its outlines for months.
Mayor Michelle Wu sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Reporter in her City Hall office this week as she prepares to launch a multi-week tour of neighborhood parks, beginning in Fields Corner’s Town Field on Fri., May 12, at 10 a.m. The Reporter will publish a series of articles based on our conversation with her. We begin with her thoughts on safety concerns in the
The City Council must make another attempt at redrawing the political boundaries of its nine district seats, a US federal judge ordered on Monday. Councillors verbally sparred for months last fall before a 9-4 vote on a map that sliced up Dorchester-based District 3, particularly the Neponset area. Opponents of the map “demonstrated a likelihood of success” in their lawsuit
Dorchester resident John FitzGerald, the 41-year-old son of a legendary state lawmaker and a veteran of City Hall, has joined the race to succeed District 3 Councillor Frank Baker. The field has continued to grow since Baker’s April 20 announcement that he wouldn’t run for reelection. Meetinghouse Hill activist Jennifer Johnson and Fields Corner schoolteacher Joel Richards had