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Acting Mayor Kim Janey is hoping a free ride will give her a lift to the polls.
Janey on Monday announced a three-month pilot program that eliminates fares on
the Route 28 bus that connects the neighborhoods of Mattapan, Dorchester and
Roxbury. The city is paying for the program with $500,000. The f…
over 2 years ago
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Few efforts to derail WU TRAIN — BAKER lays out federal COVID relief spending plan — Where is JANEY'S REPORT on PATRICK ROSE? Politico
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The five major mayoral candidates on Thursday laid out how they would handle
coronavirus-driven changes to the Greater Boston economy and avoid creating
another neighborhood like the Seaport. The candidates appeared before nearly 150
people inside the Dorchester offices of the North Atlantic States …
over 2 years ago
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City Councillor Ricardo Arroyo, along with his father, who serves as Suffolk
County’s register of probate, on Thursday offered their formal backing to Acting
Mayor Kim Janey. The Hyde Park councillor’s endorsement isn’t much of a
surprise: Arroyo has been among Janey’s allies on the Boston City Coun…
over 2 years ago
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley said today that the US should take steps to
prevent further destabilization of Haiti after the country’s president Jovenel
Moïse was assassinated last week. “There are many urgent needs and multiple
layers of trauma there,” Pressley said. “What we need to prioritize rig…
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Change is coming to Ayanna Pressley’s majority-minority Congressional district,
less than three years after she beat out Michael Capuano for the seat to become
the first Black woman sent to Capitol Hill by Massachusetts voters. What that
change will look like is up to lawmakers at the State House, w…
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Acting Mayor Kim Janey on Saturday rallied supporters at her new Jamaica Plain
campaign office in her bid to win a full four-year term as the city’s chief
executive. In a squat one-story building on Centre Street, next to a cannabis
shop and behind a Whole Foods market, dozens of supporters geared u…
over 2 years ago
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John Barros, a mayoral candidate and former top City Hall official, has garnered
support from Dan Magoon, a Dorchester veteran who heads up a nonprofit focused
on Gold Star families. Barros, who served as former Mayor Marty Walsh’s chief of
economic development, is one of six major candidates runnin…
over 2 years ago
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Chicago’s Saul Bellow once wrote, “City politics are comic opera.” But in Boston
at this time, they’re more like the pages of a comic book as the slugfests
outnumber the arias. Last week’s City Council meeting featured bits of both, as
councillors maneuvered to approve their version of Acting Mayor …
over 2 years ago
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Acting Mayor Kim Janey, who is running for a full four-year term, sought to
highlight 100 days in the executive suite. The move drew flack from one of her
five rivals, District 4 Councillor Andrea Campbell, who said the effort was
aimed at spotlighting Janey’s candidacy more than her tenure. In a sp…
over 2 years ago
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LEGISLATURE takes its time on REOPENING, VOTE BY MAIL — New POLICING guidance — MARKEY: No climate, no deal Politico
over 2 years ago
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The six major mayoral candidates on Tuesday laid out their plans for dealing
with homelessness and economic development in the city’s Newmarket area, an
industrial neighborhood that is also a hub for addiction and recovery services.
The Newmarket Business Association, the South End Forum, Dudley Str…
over 2 years ago
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The success behind stimulus payments and unemployment benefits during the height
of the pandemic underscores the need for expanding income assistance and a shift
towards universal basic income, according to a new report from the Boston
Foundation. The concept of periodic payments to all individuals …
over 2 years ago
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City Councillor Michelle Wu and Acting Mayor Kim Janey top the poll of likely
Sept. 14 preliminary voters released Tuesday by the Boston Globe and Suffolk
University. Surveyed on their first choice for the top job in City Hall, 23.4
percent said Wu had their vote. Janey received 21.6 percent. City C…
over 2 years ago
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Boston’s mayoral candidates are in for a forum-filled Tuesday, with one in the
early morning and another in the evening. Local civic and business group leaders
are hosting a forum Tuesday morning with the six mayoral candidates. The
Newmarket Business Association, the South End Forum, DSNI, Pine Str…
over 2 years ago
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Boston mayoral POLL PENDING — ROLLINS vs WALSH — More HOLYOKE SOLDIERS' HOME questions Politico
over 2 years ago
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Another super PAC has entered the Boston mayoral race. Hotel and food workers
have formed a super PAC to bolster Acting Mayor Kim Janey, who was endorsed by
their union, UNITE HERE Local 26. The outside group hopes to raise at least
$500,000 this year, according to a spokesperson. The super PAC’s ch…
over 2 years ago
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When Gov. Charlie Baker sailed to reelection in 2018, he nearly won the city of
Boston, a bastion of Democrats. Baker and his fellow Republican, Lt. Gov. Karyn
Polito, came in just 3,897 votes (49 percent) behind Democrats Jay Gonzalez and
Quentin Palfrey (51 percent), winning a second four-year ter…
over 2 years ago
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Acting Mayor Kim Janey is looking for applicants to fill two seats on the city’s
seven-member school committee left vacant after a pair of resignations earlier
this month. Committee chair Alexandra Oliver-Davila and member Lorna Rivera
resigned after the publication of two text messages between the …
over 2 years ago
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The developer behind a proposal to overhaul 1.3 acres and add three new
buildings behind Dorchester’s South Bay shopping area has pulled back on
building heights and housing density. The project’s total number of planned
residential units now stands at 196, down from 236 in the original proposal, an…
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