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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: 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: 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.

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.

Jon Santiago stops running for mayor

By adamg - 7/13/21 - 11:24 am

The South End state rep announced this morning he's no longer running for mayor.

Santiago said he's proud of his campaign, which in the most recent poll showed him in single digits, "but the people of Boston have made it clear, and I look forward to supporting the first elected woman of color to lead Boston."

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: Santiago, Edwards in a budget spat; JP/West Roxbury council candidate leaves race

By adamg - 6/28/21 - 9:59 am

Jon Santiago took note last week of the way the city council and the acting mayor are duking it out over a city budget that's due before July 1 and told the council to be good little boys and girls and knock it off: Read more.

Election roundup: Barros, Essaibi George release housing plans; mayoral forum tonight

By adamg - 6/23/21 - 12:37 pm

John Barros, who worked to increase affordable housing in Roxbury and Dorchester as head of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, released an affordable-housing plan that includes a transfer tax on property transactions to fund more housing, reducing regulatory requirements on construction of affordable-housing units, turning over more city land for building affordable units, increasing the number of affordable units developers have to include in their market-rate projects and working towards greater investment in the city's public-housing complexes. Read more.

Election roundup: Out-of-towners take a financial stake in Boston mayoral race, which includes at least two candidates you might not know

By adamg - 6/18/21 - 3:47 pm

WGBH reports some 57% of the money raised by our fair Hub's candidates for mayor come from outside the city limits - although much of that is from people who at least live in places where they could take the T or easily spot an "Entering Boston" sign on their morning commute. Read more.

Election roundup: Wu calls for rent stabilization, more affordable-housing construction; Essaibi George calls for better Madison Park

By adamg - 6/16/21 - 3:22 pm

Michelle Wu today unwrapped her housing agenda, which focuses on making Boston more affordable for the middle class, and which includes a return of rent stabilization, a commitment to use $200 million of incoming federal relief aid on affordable-housing construction and eliminating parking requirements for new all affordable buildings. She would also use municipal funds for mortgage support and savings matching to help people who are not in the market for a condo at One Dalton. 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.

Council to Janey: Don't think about stepping out of line

By adamg - 6/9/21 - 4:09 pm

The Herald reports the City Council gave itself the right to dethrone an acting mayor. Read more.

Election roundup: Wu says a bridge is not the answer to Boston's addiction problems; two unions make endorsements

By adamg - 6/4/21 - 10:20 am

The Boston Sun reports that Michelle Wu has come out against rebuilding the bridge to Long Island, saying the money would be better and more quickly spent on things that can be done now, instead of waiting for Quincy to finally yell uncle and stop fighting in court. Read more.