By State House News Service
February 24, 2021
Chris Osgood
As Mayor Walsh prepares to leave City Hall for the labor secretary’s post in the Biden administration, Boston City Council President Kim Janey has turned to City Hall veteran Chris Osgood to help lead her team when she becomes acting mayor.
In anticipation of that move, Janey on Friday named Osgood, who previously served as Walsh’s chief of the streets, transportation and sanitation, as her chief of staff.
A graduate of City Year, Haverford College, and the Harvard Business School, Osgood joined the Menino administration in 2006 where he co-founded the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics in 2010 and served as a policy advisor.
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By State House News Service
February 22, 2021
Chris Osgood
As Boston Mayor Marty Walsh prepares to leave City Hall for the labor secretary s post in the Biden administration, Boston City Council President Kim Janey is turning to City Hall veteran Chris Osgoog to help lead her team when she becomes acting mayor.
In anticipation of becoming mayor, Janey on Friday named Osgood, who previously served as Walsh s chief of the streets, transportation and sanitation, as her chief of staff. A graduate of City Year, Haverford College and the Harvard Business School, Osgood co-founded the Mayor s Office of New Urban Mechanics and joined the city in 2006, serving as a mayoral policy advisor.
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Somerville businesses will still abide by the 9:30 p.m. curfew. (Shutterstock)
SOMERVILLE, MA The 9:30 p.m. curfew on businesses was lifted across Massachusetts Monday, but Somerville officials say the current coronavirus data does not warrant that change at a local level.
In a letter to the Licensing Commission Monday, Omar Boukili, Somerville s COVID-19 incident commander, wrote that current data does not warrant a change in our existing restrictions for restaurants and other industries.
However, Somerville s numbers show promise. Boukili said there has been a 1.9 percent decrease in Somerville s daily incidence rate over the last week – which he described as a minute drop – and a modest decrease in the 14-day percent positivity rate of less than 1 percent.