Boston Acting Mayor Kim Janey wants to remove the acting from her title.
Janey, 55, announced plans Tuesday to run for mayor this fall, becoming the sixth major candidate to formally join the race.
In a statement, Janey said it will take longer than a few months as acting mayor to deal with the challenges the city faces from the pandemic and centuries of structural racism. So she is now seeking a full term. I’m ready to lead our city, Janey said in a video released Tuesday morning declaring her candidacy. To listen. To collaborate. To fight this pandemic and the racial and economic inequalities that COVID only worsened.
Suffolk has
nabbed the city of Boston s highest-ranking construction executive, in an effort to build and expand the construction firm s relationships in government and business.
Beginning April 16, Boston Chief of Operations Patrick Brophy will join Suffolk as senior director of external affairs in the Northeast.
A 26-year veteran of Boston city government, Brophy served in administrations for three mayors, including Marty Walsh, who recently left the city to become U.S. Labor Secretary. The Operations Department includes the city s property management, inspections and public facilities departments and is responsible for executing Boston s multi-year, $900 million capital building program, according to a city press release.
The final steel beam for the new school building s structure was put in place during a topping-off ceremony.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City and state officials, and members of the Boston Arts Academy Foundation, along with Boston Arts Academy (BAA) representatives, today raised the final steel beam into place to complete the structure of the new, $125 million BAA facility on Ipswich Street, directly across the street from Fenway Park.
At a time of great societal change for young people across the country, construction of this world-class building for Boston s only public high school for the visual and performing arts serves as a bright, shining example of the ingenuity and innovation of the Boston Public Schools vision for the future. BAA students, faculty and the community at large will reap the benefits of the expanded space, which will soon open its doors to BAA s rapidly growing student population.
As questions arise over funding for the Massachusetts Turnpike project in Allston, state officials and local residents said they are considering residentsâ quality of life along with the projectâs funding sources and biggest beneficiaries.
Harvard has already committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the project â formally known as the Allston Multimodal Project â which will replace the aging viaduct along Soldiers Field Road, straighten the Massachusetts Turnpike that runs through Allston, and clear up 130 acres of Harvard-owned land for development.
It will also improve bicycle and pedestrian pathways, establish the West Station stop on the Framingham/Worcester commuter rail line, and create more green spaces along Charles River, per the stateâs Department of Transportation website.
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As part of the launch, the municipalities are asking residents and businesses to take a survey on what should be addressed. (Shutterstock)
DEDHAM, MA Dedham and Boston launched a community process to assess transportation and safety needs along the VFW Parkway/Providence Highway corridor.
The project will evaluate how to meet the travel and safety needs of all users, including motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians, transit riders, local residents and area businesses. As part of the launch, the municipalities are asking residents and businesses to take a survey on what should be addressed.
The action plan, made possible through funding secured by Sen. Michael Rush and Rep. Paul McMurtry, will concentrate on the roadway between the intersection of Spring Street and VFW Parkway in West Roxbury and the Marine Rotary at Washington Street in Dedham. Designed primarily as a higher-speed vehicle corridor, the area has almost no accommodations for pedestrians, bicyclists or transit