When Michelle Wu met virtually with Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) staff in January 2022, a few months into her mayorship, she had just turned 37. At the meeting, the staff joined together to awkwardly sing “Happy Birthday” to the city’s new chief executive. In the new year, it’s an open question as to what song staffers will be singing in the new year, and
Boston City Hall ended 2022 with a well-stocked mayoral cabinet, including several members with Dorchester connections. Mary Skipper, the superintendent of the Boston Public Schools (BPS), is a resident and the founding head of TechBoston Academy, formerly known as Dorchester High, while Michael Cox, the police commissioner, lived in the neighborhood before he decamped for Ann
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City councillors are barreling toward the finish line on redistricting, with a plan to vote Wednesday on a map redrawing Boston’s political boundaries. Most of the 13-member panel met in multiple working sessions early this week to haggle over which precincts, the building blocks of the once-in-a-decade process known as redistricting, go into which of the nine Council
As the 13-member City Council is grappling with redrawing the boundaries of the nine council districts, a process that plays out every ten years, Hyde Park Councillor Ricardo Arroyo has proposed a map that would put parts of Dorchester and the South End in a single Council district while uniting the Vietnamese community under one councillor. The panel faces a tight timeline,