With less than a month to go before he takes the oath to join the Boston City Council, newly elected John FitzGerald is busy interviewing potential staff members who will help him in the work of representing District 3 while he continues to work in his role at Boston Planning and Development Agency until the end of the year. “There has been one official hire so far, and that
Three additional public meetings planned over coming months A commission charged with coordinating state and city resources to plan critical improvements to Morrissey Boulevard and related infrastructure convened for its first meeting on Tuesday evening, more than one year after a measure authorizing its formation was passed into law. The meeting convened by the Mass Dept. of
More tree lightings are planned for next weekend as Mayor Wu’s Enchanted Trolley Tour makes stops around the city, including Mattapan Square on Sat., Dec. 2 at 1 p.m.; Codman Square on Sun., Dec. 3 at 12 p.m., followed by Adams Corner that day at 1 p.m. This event includes visits with Santa, tree lightings, and more. All Dorchester Sports and Leadership’s 40th anniversary gala
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.
State officials last week used Dorchester’s replica of the world’s greatest deliberative chamber to clarify the Massachusetts “open meeting law” and offer training for those interested in navigating the oft-opaque world of government deliberations. The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, the Columbia Point non-profit boasting a restaged Senate floor,