A bid to allow Boston residents who are not US citizens to vote in municipal elections may make its way up to Beacon Hill where at least one supporter expects it would “essentially die with other home rule petitions.” The Boston City Council voted earlier this month to approve a petition for a special law to allow all legal residents of Boston, regardless of their
Less than one-fifth of Boston’s electorate trickled to the polls on Tuesday to pick a new crop of city councillors in an election that will bring a marked shift in the personnel and dynamics to the 13-member body. The new faces will include John FitzGerald, who posted a decisive victory over Joel Richards in the race to succeed Frank Baker as the District 3 councillor.
Jim Davis, the New Balance chairman who sent more than $1 million toward an outside group seeking to defeat then-Councillor Michelle Wu in the 2021 mayoral contest, is now hotfooting into City Council races. The candidates say they aren’t interested in the help. Davis, a Republican donor at the federal level, this week donated $150,000 to an outside group, or super PAC,
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Voters in a handful of City Council districts face a deadline in choosing their candidates, if they haven’t already voted by mail or in-person at an early voting location. Polls close at 8 p.m. next Tuesday (Sept. 12) in the preliminaries for District 3 (Dorchester and the South End), District 5 (Hyde Park, Mattapan and Roslindale), District 6 (Jamaica Plain and West