Kim Janey

Janey rips up waterfront plan that would have finally allowed Chiofaro skyscraper and James Hook hotel

By adamg - 8/26/21 - 3:33 pm

Acting Mayor Kim Janey today cited Boston's unique vulnerability to rising sea levels in announcing she was withdrawing a waterfront plan developed by then mayor Marty Walsh under which the Chiofaro family would have finally gotten to build a skyscraper next to the New England Aquarium, long blocked because of the family patriarch's unceasing feud with Tom Menino, and which would have let developers replace the James Hook seafood trailer and the rest of its fire-ravaged pier with a hotel. Read more.

Janey orders vaccination or weekly testing for all Boston city workers, contractors and volunteers

By adamg - 8/12/21 - 3:09 pm

Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced today that the city will phase in a mandatory vaccination requirement for its 18,000 employees over the next two months. Read more.

Election roundup: Being a progressive in Boston can be tough, JP Progressives conclude

By adamg - 8/12/21 - 12:06 pm

They tried and they tried and they tried, but in the end, JP Progressives couldn't settle on anybody to officially support for mayor in September. Read more.

Election roundup: Janey gets the Wakanda vote

By adamg - 8/11/21 - 11:00 am

WGBH reports Dianne Wilkerson's Wakanda II project is backing Kim Janey in her bid to stay in the mayor's office come Jan. 1. Read more.

Election roundup: Campbell tells Rudy Giuliani to keep his hair-dye-stained ass out of Boston affairs

By adamg - 8/6/21 - 2:25 pm

Looks like Rudy Giuliani has something new to grab onto besides his chram: Kim Janey's comments about Covid-19 vaccinations being somehow equivalent to slavery and birthers: Read more.

Election roundup: What do politicians from Savin Hill have against the T?

By adamg - 8/4/21 - 1:32 pm

Annissa Essaibi George gets interviewed by boston.com, and like Marty Walsh, who also grew up in Savin Hill, acknowledges she just doesn't take the T. Also, the idea of making the T free, outside of maybe a couple of bus line in poor neighborhoods, is silly, she says, without naming the idea's two proponents - her competitors Michelle Wu and Kim Janey, both of whom are, or at least were in the Before Times, frequent T riders. Read more.

Election roundup: Janey compares vax proof to slavery, Trumpian birtherism; Campbell denounces that as 'dangerous rhetoric'

By adamg - 8/3/21 - 9:10 pm

New York City is going to require proof of vaccination to get into a restaurant and other cool places and some enterprising reporter asked our acting mayor about that and, well, she's not a fan, WCVB reports: Read more.

Election roundup: Rent control; Barros sponsors vax clinic at Mass and Cass

By adamg - 8/2/21 - 10:37 am

The Globe notes Michelle Wu is the only candidate to support rent control. Read more.

Election roundup: Don't stop with the 28, Wu says; Diehl proves once a trumpie, always a trumpie

By adamg - 7/26/21 - 11:04 am

About the same time that acting Mayor Kim Janey was announcing for-reals free service on the 28 route today, at-large Councilor Michelle Wu, also running for four years in that fifth-floor office overlooking Faneuil Hall, was announcing a plan for even more ambitious free bus service, along with the boffins at Northeastern's Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Read more.

BPS students will still have to wear masks this fall, Janey says

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 8:05 pm

WBZ reports.

Janey names two Latina education activists to School Committee

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 3:33 pm

Acting Mayor Kim Janey today announced she had appointed Rafaela Polanco Garcia and Lorena Lopera to the School Committee, replacing Alexandra Oliver-Dávila and Lorna Rivera, who resigned over the Westie-whites text messages last month. Read more.

Election roundup: Campbell hits Janey on Patrick Rose report; meet the 17 people running for at-large seats on the city council

By adamg - 7/22/21 - 11:17 am

Seems increasingly unlikely that either Andrea Campbell or Kim Janey will endorse the other should only one of them make it into the November final election: Read more.

Election roundup: Everybody's endorsing somebody

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 11:26 am

Kim Janey has Ricardo Arroyo and now Michelle Wu has Lydia Edwards. That leaves seven city councilors who aren't running for mayor to endorse somebody publicly. Read more.

Election roundup: Snippy quips begin in mayoral race

By adamg - 7/15/21 - 9:36 pm

Andrea Campbell takes note of a Globe story about Kim Janey setting up a campaign swag store: Read more.

Election roundup: Wu, Janey lead latest poll; candidates discuss whether to keep Cassellius as BPS superintentendent

By adamg - 6/29/21 - 3:57 pm

A Globe/Suffolk University poll shows Michelle Wu and Kim Janey opening big leads in the race to get on the November final ballot. The two men in the race both polled in single digits, with one, John Barros, at just 1.8%, so in addition to electing Boston's first mayor of color, voters in November could also elect our first woman mayor. Read more.

Election roundup: Council tells Janey they brought her into this world and they can take her out of it; more endorsements

By adamg - 6/11/21 - 9:49 am

Adrian Walker breaks down the City Council's sudden need to tell Kim Janey they're still the boss of her: She's stopped returning their phone calls. Read more.