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U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss blasted the Boston City Council for voting to block a $13.3 million counter-terrorism grant for the metropolitan region amid heightened threats of terror that he says have been “fueled by antisemitism and anti-Zionism.”
Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said that the police department is reviewing the Dec. 30 incident that raises more questions about how police handle calls involving people in mental-health crises.
Burke said in a statement that he is “grateful that the fire and active shooter incident yesterday did not result in any injury to our firefighters, police officers or residents.”
The City Council voted to fund a $27.35 million collective bargaining agreement with the Boston firefighters union that includes a roughly 10.6% bump in pay over a three-year period.
The City Council approved a labor agreement reached between the Wu administration and the city’s firefighters union, Local 718. The sign-off, which came at Wednesday’s Council meeting and sent the agreement to Mayor Wu’s desk, was unanimous. The agreement, which Wu announced at the Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day breakfast earlier this month, runs from July 2021