Lawyers for several voting rights advocacy groups, which played a role last fall in redrawing the political boundaries of the nine City Council district seats, are now seeking to intervene in the federal court case at the center of the city’s chaotic political scene. NAACP Boston, MassVOTE, the Chinese Progressive Association and other groups are seeking to intervene in the
There are more centenarians nowadays than ever before, we are told, and like Mattapan’s Anna Coleman, who turned 102 on April 10, they continue to amaze with their lived experiences, their active lifestyles, and their spot-on social critiques. Mrs. Coleman, who has lived in the same home in Mattapan for more than 40 years and is the neighborhood’s oldest resident, was the
Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday formally ended a raucous political brouhaha on Monday when she signed off on a map that redraws the boundaries of the nine City Council districts a year before voters go to the polls for the next municipal election. The once-a-decade process known as redistricting typically heightens tensions inside City Hall, as councillors are forced to grapple
After weeks of acerbic arguments and backbiting over the city’s political boundaries, councillors voted 9 to 4 to send Mayor Wu a City Council map that reshapes districts anchored in Dorchester and South Boston. Councillor Frank Baker’s Dorchester-based District 3 is set to shift north, deeper into South Boston, picking up public housing developments while losing the precincts
The Boston City Council on Wednesday approved a $4 billion city budget after wrangling over whether to cut police and fire department accounts and send the funds over to youth workers and other council priorities. Just before the July 1 start of the 2023 fiscal year, the councillors, newly empowered with the ability to override Mayor Michelle Wu’s version of the budget, voted