The Boston City Council today voted 12-1 to approve a request to the state legislature to let Boston temporarily increase the tax rate on commercial property to try to ease the tax burden on residential property owners caused by the sharp decrease in the value of commercial buildings downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 2/12/25 - 12:21 pm
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) today blocked immediate council action to accept a $14.4-million federal grant for safety improvements at 50 intersections across the city. Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/25 - 2:03 pm
The Boston City Council today voted unanimously to prohibit councilors from requiring their employees to sign NDAs or similar documents as a condition of employment. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 9:11 am
The Dorchester Reporter introduces us to the people who have come a step closer to running for one of the four at-large seats on the City Council this fall, by filing paperwork with the state.
By adamg - 1/16/25 - 12:55 pm
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) said yesterday the city should expand its side-street speed-hump program to the city's main thoroughfares - and lower the citywide speed limit - to reduce the number of pedestrians sent to the grave by impatient speeders. Read more.
By adamg - 1/15/25 - 2:48 pm
The City Council today unanimously approved a $110-million fund to help finance new housing in the city through low-cost loans for new housing that meets certain city criteria for affordable units, the use of minority- and women-owned subcontractors and climate resiliency. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 2:19 pm
The Boston City Council on Wednesday will consider a request from Councilor Sharon Durkan to look at a "sugar-sweetened beverage tax" as a way to curb various health woes - in large part by raising money that could be used to fight scourges such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 10:11 am
Mayor Wu said today she'll ask the City Council to ask the state Legislature to increase commercial tax rates over a three-year-period to help ease the tax burden on homeowners - and hopes that now that homeowners have actually gotten their tax bills, state Sen. Nick Collins of South Boston might change his mind about letting his constituents get walloped. Read more.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 9:28 am
The Herald reports Councilor Ed Flynn has concluded he can't raise enough money to take on incumbent Michelle Wu, so will instead run for re-election this year.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 2:27 pm
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 11:27 am
Say hello to Brian Foley, who now that the national election is over and he no longer has to wave his Trump flag around Southie and getting into fights with teenagers, is supposedly running for the District 2 (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) city council seat now held by Ed Flynn.
By adamg - 12/18/24 - 11:01 am
We already knew that Said Ahmed is planning to run for the District 7 seat now held by Tania Fernandes Anderson.
Politico reports that Said Abdikarim, who ran for an at-large seat last time (you may remember him from the orange shirt he always wears), is running in District 7 this time. Read more.
By adamg - 12/12/24 - 3:42 pm
In what has become an annual December rite, Boston city councilors yesterday approved a federal homeland-security grant only after a sometimes pitched battle over the roll of Boston Police in collecting information on Boston residents - and the way the council schedules votes on things. Read more.
By adamg - 12/11/24 - 6:25 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the quick vote today by the Boston City Council to set tax rates that could mean a more than 10% increase for residential property owners after state senators refused to OK a deal between Mayor Wu and local business groups on a three-year measure to east that burden somewhat by letting the city increase commercial tax rates. The council also approved the usual tax break for residential owners who live in their own homes.
By adamg - 12/5/24 - 9:46 am
Said Ahmed filed paperwork with the state in October to run for the District 7 city council seat now held by Tania Fernandes Anderson, but only sent out a press release about it yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/24 - 2:18 pm
The City Council today voted unanimously to keep Boston's sanctuary-city status and remind city departments not to help any federal "civil immigration enforcement" efforts, including the incoming federal administration's announced plans to set up concentration camps for immigrants before they are booted out of the country. Read more.
By adamg - 11/30/24 - 10:02 am
GBH News reports on efforts by councilors in the three cities, including Boston's Enrique Pepén (Hyde Park, Mattapan, Roslindale) to lift Massachusetts's current standing as the only state where tenants have to pay fees to apartment brokers who work for landlords.
By adamg - 11/26/24 - 5:39 pm
At a hearing on public-safety issues downtown and around Boston Common today, Elizabeth Vizza had a request for suburbanite do-gooders who keep coming to the Common to feed the homeless: Stop! Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/24 - 2:06 pm
The Boston City Council yesterday voted to accept millions of dollars in federal grants for projects across the city, including $20 million to upgrade Melnea Cass Boulevard, Malcolm X Boulevard and Warren Street in Roxbury, $11.4 million to plant hundreds of new trees and bolster an urban-forestry work training program and $2.3 million in two separate grants to help upgrade, expand and staff a Boston Rescue Mission program downtown that houses and train immigrants released from federal detention. Read more.
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