Events happening in the City of Boston this week will bring some parking restrictions and street closures. People attending these events are encouraged to walk,
Redistricting, like elections, is about the future. That didn’t stop at least one councillor, angry over the new boundaries of his Dorchester district and the carving of Neponset, from inexplicably bringing up the Troubles in Northern Ireland from decades ago. But the dust is settling on the new map, signed by Mayor Wu on Nov. 7, and many of the district councillors now have
Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday formally ended a raucous political brouhaha on Monday when she signed off on a map that redraws the boundaries of the nine City Council districts a year before voters go to the polls for the next municipal election. The once-a-decade process known as redistricting typically heightens tensions inside City Hall, as councillors are forced to grapple
Unhappy with his fellow city councillors’ efforts to redraw the political boundaries of nine City Council seats, Dorchester Councillor Frank Baker plans to file his own map next week. The nine district councillors and their four at-large colleagues are facing a Nov. 7 deadline to get a map finished, a year before the 2023 municipal election. Three maps have been proposed: One
City Councillor At-Large Erin Murphy on Thursday offered a redistricting map of her own as she and her colleagues drew closer to a deadline to finish the redrawing of Boston’s political boundaries involving the nine council districts. The redrawing occurs every ten years to address population shifts and changes as outlined by the US Census. Each district in the city must have