The long journey of the Quality Inn at 100 Morris St. in its effort to resume operations appears to have reached its conclusion after the members of the Revere License Commission, chairperson Robert Selevitch and fellow members Daniel Occena and Linda Guinasso, gave their conditional approval for the hotel to reopen at their meeting last
on this day, boston elected your mom because from every corner of our city, boston has spoken. when i was her son s age growing up in boston, every mayor was an irish-american man. the most recent elected mayor of boston was irish-american marty walsh, who left city hall to become joe biden s secretary of labor. the secretary of city council became boston s acting mayor. mayor janney met one on one with michelle wu for the beginning of the handoff from boston s first woman acting mayor to the first woman elected mayor, which is also the handoff from boston s
but it also is a city with a non-white majority, and i was there last night at election headquarters for michelle wu and to see her standing at that podium with the american flak behind her and a group of people that looked nothing like the stereo typical version of what we see as boston, and her boys looking up at her and wondering if a boy could be mayor. she said when she was a young girl she never saw any reflections of herself in the halls of power, and to see her assume this, get the handoff from kim janney, such a remarkable night. and janae, kim janney told you in your article, this is her quote, she said, i never even imagined i would see a black mayor in my lifetime in the city of boston. and there she was herself, the first black mayor serving in the city of boston. absolutely. kim janey made history, and
culture columnist and creator of a beautiful resistance, a multimedia series for the boston globe. and tremain lee, host of the podcast, into america. the reason michelle wu s sons wonder if a man can be mayor is because all of the finalists in the campaign, the strongest running candidates were all women, including two black women, kim janney, earlier before it was narrowed to two candidates, and we have never seen a field like that for mayor of boston before. and it really is a beautiful moment, lawrence, and thank you so much for having me. when you describe the boston of your youth and seeing this long line of white irish catholic mayors, and to see what happened last night with michelle wu s election but also the entire field. it really reminds us that many things can be true at once, right, boston has this wild reputation of being one of america s most racist cities,
Pilbara home-building slump transformed since WA and Federal Government grants announced
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Builders say they are constructing more houses thanks to government grants.
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The Pilbara region in Western Australia has been lifted out of a home-building slump by State and Federal Government grants, according to local builders.
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Builders in the Pilbara say construction work has massively increased as a result of state and federal grants
There have only been a handful of residential builds in the region in the past several years Since the HomeBuilder, Building Bonus, and Regional Land Booster packages were announced, the number of new builds has increased dramatically