Mayor Wu this morning announced a plan that would require food-delivery companies to obtain city permits, buy insurance for their delivery people and hand over data to the city on where all those people are going with their food - and how fast. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 10:27 pm
Boston.com posts a copy of the genial invite from House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, who is now heavily invested in sniffing out immigrants under all the beds now that he can no longer continue his crusade against Hunter Biden, given Biden's pardon and the fact that Comer's star witness against him has pleaded guilty to making up shit about the Bidens (and also evading taxes). Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 9:10 am
Mayor Wu yesterday had her third child - Mira Wu Pewarski, 8lbs, 4oz. and 20 inches.
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 - 1/2/25 - 10:36 am
Shana Cottone, fired as a Boston Police sergeant in 2023, this week sued to get her job back, charging she was terminated as retaliation for exercising her First Amendment religious and free-speech rights by refusing Covid-19 shots and then organizing protests against city Covid-19 policies, which included early morning, bullhorn-enhanced protests outside Mayor Wu's Roslindale home and the swarming of two Boston pizzerias by people who refused to show proof of vaccination. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/24 - 4:26 pm
A federal judge ruled today North End restaurant owners simply had no case against Mayor Wu for first ordering fees on North End restaurants that wanted to use city sidewalks and curbs for outdoor dining and then banning private patios on public ways in the neighborhood. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 7:43 pm
The Dorchester Reporter sums up the latest news on the plans to rebuild White Stadium as a professional soccer arena with modern BPS facilities, which includes rising cost estimates, possible court delays and now the opposition of City Councilor and possible Wu opponent Ed Flynn.
Last night, Wu took to Bluesky to explain her support for the plans and answer questions.
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 - 1:02 pm
Mayor Wu today announced the city's program for letting BPS students and their family members into local museums for free next month will be expanded to include all private, parochial and Metco students - and that additional museums have signed up. Read more.
By adamg - 11/21/24 - 9:55 am
Mayor Wu says she will ask the City Council to approve a $110-million rotating fund to help tip the balance on new housing developments whose builders would otherwise hold back because of the high cost of financing these days - with the first project to be a mixed-income apartment building as part of the complete overhaul of Bunker Hill housing project. Read more.
By adamg - 11/18/24 - 9:39 am
WBUR reports. Possible opponents include City Councilor Ed Flynn and Josh Kraft.
By adamg - 10/23/24 - 1:52 pm
CommonWealth Beacon reports that under a compromise with city business organizations, the city will seek state approval to raise the tax levy from commercial properties higher than otherwise allowed for three years to help shield residential property owners from some of the shock of upcoming property re-assessments, expected to show a significant drop in commercial tax revenue due to continuing effects of fewer people returning to work downtown. Read more.
By adamg - 10/20/24 - 2:49 pm
Scott Van Vorhis reports a possible deal between Mayor Wu and the heads of area businesses and local commercial property owners on a plan that would let Boston temporarily increase taxes on commercial property to minimize the amount city homeowners would see their bills go up because of the Covid-related decline in property values downtown - just by a smaller amount than Wu had originally proposed. The move still needs the approval of the legislature and governor.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 12:57 pm
The State House News Service reports Mayor Wu is continuing to push for the state Senate to approve a measure that would let city assessors temporarily increase the total amount they can level in taxes on commercial property as a way to help reduce impending increases on residential property. Read more.
By adamg - 9/26/24 - 8:15 pm
Eric Adams and Michelle Wu both won election in 2021. About a year later, the New York Times posed the question of which leadership style Democrats wanted. Given events of the past couple days, you think the Times would ever ask that again? Read more.
By adamg - 8/2/24 - 4:11 pm
Tom Menino used to do it all the time (in case you're wondering why there are no WalMarts in Boston and why the first Chick-fil-A in town only opened after he left office); now Mayor Wu is telling the real-estate holding company that owns what will soon be the former Carney Hospital that she will block any redevelopment of its 11.7-acre site along Dorchester Avenue that is not solely focused on healthcare, the Dorchester Reporter reports.
By adamg - 7/22/24 - 8:31 pm
The Globe breaks the news: Mayor Wu is pregnant, expects to have her third child in January.
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