The Dorchester Reporter sums up the latest news on the plans to rebuild White Stadium as a professional soccer arena with modern BPS facilities, which includes rising cost estimates, possible court delays and now the opposition of City Councilor and possible Wu opponent Ed Flynn.
Last night, Wu took to Bluesky to explain her support for the plans and answer questions.
Say hello to Brian Foley, who now that the national election is over and he no longer has to wave his Trump flag around Southie and getting into fights with teenagers, is supposedly running for the District 2 (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) city council seat now held by Ed Flynn.
In what has become an annual December rite, Boston city councilors yesterday approved a federal homeland-security grant only after a sometimes pitched battle over the roll of Boston Police in collecting information on Boston residents - and the way the council schedules votes on things. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the quick vote today by the Boston City Council to set tax rates that could mean a more than 10% increase for residential property owners after state senators refused to OK a deal between Mayor Wu and local business groups on a three-year measure to east that burden somewhat by letting the city increase commercial tax rates. The council also approved the usual tax break for residential owners who live in their own homes.
E-mail to city employee claiming new hire was not a relative. From the indictment.
City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) was arrested this morning on federal charges that she hired a relative and demanded kickbacks from her - $7,000 in cash handed over in a City Hall women's room.
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The South Boston state senator once again used a parliamentary procedure to keep the state Senate from voting on a measure that would let Boston temporarily increase the property-tax rate on commercial property higher than otherwise allowed, which, if he doesn't change his minds, means the City Council will have to set tax rates on Wednesday that will mean tax hikes of between 10% and 14% for residential property owners, the State House News Service reports.
The City Council today voted unanimously to keep Boston's sanctuary-city status and remind city departments not to help any federal "civil immigration enforcement" efforts, including the incoming federal administration's announced plans to set up concentration camps for immigrants before they are booted out of the country. Read more.
Boston was hoping to send out property-tax bills this month with a bit of a break for homeowners. Only problem: state Sen. Nick Collins, who represents South Boston and Dorchester, managed to get any discussion of a bill to let the city temporarily set a higher rate on commercial property until at least Thursday. Read more.
The Boston City Council yesterday voted to accept millions of dollars in federal grants for projects across the city, including $20 million to upgrade Melnea Cass Boulevard, Malcolm X Boulevard and Warren Street in Roxbury, $11.4 million to plant hundreds of new trees and bolster an urban-forestry work training program and $2.3 million in two separate grants to help upgrade, expand and staff a Boston Rescue Mission program downtown that houses and train immigrants released from federal detention. Read more.
The City Council today rejected a resolution by Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) calling on the state to take over the city election department because of Election Day problems that included numerous precincts across the city running out of ballots. Read more.
WBUR reports. Possible opponents include City Councilor Ed Flynn and Josh Kraft.
A couple hundred men, mostly Catholic, mostly from out of town, marched from the Packards Corner Planned Parenthood to the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common today to try to impose their will on a state where abortion remains a right and part of women's health care.
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A group of out-of-state Catholic men, possibly joined by some local Nazis, have decided to try to shove their will down our throats in a march Saturday morning from the Planned Parenthood clinic at Packards Corner down to the Common, where they will keen and wail and demand us godless heathens just stop all this nonsense immediately. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon interviewed Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell on her agenda after Jan. 20:
At stake, she said, are the rule of law; reproductive rights; LGBTQIA+ rights; immigrants’ rights; racial justice; environmental justice; health care; education, including student loan programs; gun violence prevention; and federal benefits programs like Social Security and Medicaid.
Chris Lovett analyzes the presidential results across Boston wards - Democrats still won overall, but their numbers were down across the board.
The Dorchester Reporter reports Secretary of State Bill Galvin is looking at a temporary takeover of the Boston election department after a number of precincts ran out of ballots on Tuesday. The City Council wants answers as well.
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