Mayor Michelle Wu’s $4.2 billion operating budget for fiscal year 2024, which starts on July 1, is set to go into effect without a significant markup from the City Council. The 12 councillors spent 7.5 hours deliberating, recessing and chiding each other on Wednesday as they attempted five times to override Wu’s various budget vetoes. Only one override cleared the two-thirds
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,
UNITE HERE Local 26, the 12,000-person union representing hospitality workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is swinging its support to state Rep. Liz Miranda as she runs for the Second Suffolk Senate seat. “Liz grew up in a Local 26 household. She knows better than anyone what hotel and food workers need and how to get it,” the union’s president, Carlos Aramayo said in a
A 2021 roadside dispute between a 33-year-old Hispanic Black man and an off-duty Transit Police officer is shaking up the 2022 race for Suffolk County district attorney. The Boston Globe reported last Saturday that the incident in Mattapan led to an investigation into the off-duty transit officer, Jacob Green, who pulled a gun on the 33-year-old, Jason Leonor. Other transit