The Shattuck Hospital redevelopment plan championed by Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been put on pause after several contentious meetings in recent months, with changes to the plan coming in the new year, according to a BMC spokesperson. “Since receiving provisional designation from the Commonwealth, the Boston Medical Center-led Coalition to redevelop Shattuck Hospital has
Boston City Council meetings typically start with an invocation by a member of the clergy. So it was on Wed., Dec. 13, the date of the last meeting of 2023, with Rev. Joseph M. White, the pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in the West End, appealing to a multi-denominational quorum of deities for wisdom. “Our world is very troubled,” he said from the rostrum in the Iannella
Boston City Council President Ed Flynn said he's done with playing "politics with the safety of residents" and is asking the mayor to quickly resubmit her request to allocate $13.3 million in federal counter-terrorism funding.
The Boston City Council held its final formal meeting of the year last Wednesday but the body’s leader wants to reconvene next week to reconsider its earlier decision to refuse $13.3 million in federal aid for anti-terror measures in the city. Mayor Wu filed an order to authorize the city to accept the money, but the council did not muster enough support to approve the funds.
In an unusual rebuke of his hometown’s local elected officials, a senator from Boston wants to strip cities and towns of authority over some grants designed to support public health and safety. Sen. Nick Collins, a Democrat, filed legislation with Republican Sen.