2024年12月11日 · City councillors made quick work Wednesday of setting Boston's property tax rates for 2025 after a months-long campaign to shift the balance beyond normal limits collapsed in the Senate. The city council voted unanimously to set the residential tax rate at $11.58 per $1,000 of value and to set the commercial rate at $25.96 per $1,000 of value.

Legislation Seen As Way To Counter Imminent Deportation Threats Concerned by the Trump administration's unfolding deportation efforts, some Massachusetts lawmakers and immigrant rights advocates launched a new campaign...

Anyone following Mayor Wu’s tax shift proposal over the last few weeks knew that its fate hinged on whether state-certified property valuations constituted the “dramatic increase” in homeowners’ property tax bills that she had warned about for months. What has not been covered, however, is how months earlier, Wu and her top budget officials created the conditions for

2024年12月31日 · The Boston School Committee began its last meeting in 2024 on Dec. 18 with a cheer for inclusive education, only to end three hours later with slightly tweaked plans for rationing coveted seats at three exam schools. The state’s 2025 “Teacher of the Year,” Luisa Sparrow, was congratulated for her work with special needs students in grades 5 and 6 at the Oliver Hazard Perry

2024年12月31日 · Gov. Healey was in Dorchester last week to sign an executive order aimed at boosting women’s employment in the construction industry, and she celebrated the effort with what could be one of her final public collaborations with the Biden administration. The order will direct state agencies issuing construction contracts to “do it …

2025年1月27日 · Mayor Wu said on Monday that the city of Boston is not aware of any demonstrable change in tactics or in the volume of federal immigration enforcement in city neighborhoods in recent days, although she acknowledged that federal agents do not typically share intelligence about their actions and movements with …

Thomas Gunning received the 2024 Martin J. Walsh Alumni Award from Gosnold Behavioral Health last week. The Cape Cod-based non-profit helps people heal from behavioral health conditions, substance use disorders, and co- ...

2024年12月30日 · Drops Market Oversight Bill On Guv's Desk With Only Hours Left In Session Lawmakers rushed a hospital oversight bill to Gov. Maura Healey on Monday, agreeing on policy responses to the Steward Health Care crisis that aim to better regulate private equity firms and stiffen penalties for entities that fail to submit required information.

2024年10月9日 · Congressman Stephen Lynch told business leaders last Wednesday (Oct. 2) that he “would not be surprised” if President Joe Biden called Congress into session before the November election, potentially breaking up the campaign activity during the October recess. Lynch cited Hurricane Helene’s devastation along the southeastern seaboard, the escalating conflict in the Middle East,

2025年1月29日 · Several potential candidates for Boston City Council have emerged in recent weeks, including a Dorchester resident who says he intends to run citywide. Will Onuoha, who lives on Dix Street near Fields Corner, formed a committee to run for at-large city council on Dec. 17. Onuoha, an attorney who grew up in the Mission Hill …