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By adamg - 3/13/24 - 1:11 pm
FitzGerald

The City Council will consider a proposal to grant handicap parking placards to pregnant people in their third trimester or who have given birth within the past six months.
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By adamg - 3/9/24 - 12:25 pm
Etching showing the death of Attucks

The City Council will consider a measure to permanently honor Crispus Attucks, the first man to die in the Boston Massacre. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 2:18 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure in which the city would shift federal Covid relief money originally targeted to increasing the composting of garbage to leasing a 5,500-square-food cold-storage facility to give food pantries and soup kitchens a central place to store refrigerated foods - including food "rescued" from restaurants and markets. Read more.

By adamg - 3/6/24 - 1:36 pm
Louijeune pulls an Oprah and puts a jar of honey under every other councilor's desk

Louijeune pulls an Oprah, tells all the councilors to look under their desks for some honey.

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a measure that will make it easier for residents to raise bees.

By adamg - 3/5/24 - 9:33 am
Murphy

Kelly Garrity reports that Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) is going to run this fall for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County's clerk job that Maura Doyle recently announced she is retiring from. Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/24 - 4:21 pm

The City Council this week approved a measure under which the city will hire two companies to install 250 chargers along Boston streets to let people without their own driveways top up their battery-powered cars. Read more.

By adamg - 2/29/24 - 1:27 pm

City councilors yesterday denounced management at the Edgar P. Benjamin Healthcare Center, 120 Fisher Ave. on Mission Hill, for the way it's planning to close by July 1, frightening residents and delaying or bouncing employee paychecks. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 2:56 pm

Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) today withdrew his proposed resolution calling for a negotiated Gaza ceasefire to let him rewrite it so that it doesn't cause "more division" rather than lessen it. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 11:44 am
Official Boston city seal and the newfangled underlined B

Official old and newfangled Boston city symbols.

City Councilor Sharon Durkan (Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, Mission Hill) says it's time for Boston to set up a licensing office to all the companies just dying to show off their Boston cred on clothing, mugs and anything else you can slap a bold underlined sans-serif B or some good old-fashioned "Sicut Patribus Sit Deus Nobis" - or even just a design featuring the city-owned Faneuil Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 2/13/24 - 10:14 am

The Boston City Council tomorrow considers whether to let Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (Roxbury) start up some formal consideration of a proposal for "congestion pricing" as a way to ease gridlock on Boston roads caused by narrowing car access because of bicycle and bus lanes - and maybe even provide enough revenue to help improve public transit. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 2:53 pm

The City Council agreed today to a hearing to press for action to keep BTD and other city workers safe on the streets following a Friday attack in Grove Hall that sent a BTD supervisor - just months from retirement - to the hospital with serious injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 2/7/24 - 1:22 pm

Last week, Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) demanded and won immediate passage of a federal public-safety grant, which he said was too important to wait for a hearing so that the council's four new councilors and others could get up to speed on it. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:58 am

City Councilors Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) and Erin Murphy (at large) yesterday sounded an alarm about a for-profit company's plans to open an urgent-care clinic less than a block away from the South Boston Community Health Center on West Broadway, warning that the new clinic could skim patients with disposable income away, threatening the health center's long-term viability and its commitment to caring for people who couldn't otherwise afford to see a doctor. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/24 - 11:17 am
Ben Weber at council meeting

Weber explains his proposal.

The Boston City Council yesterday agreed to look at setting up a pilot program to help tenants facing eviction by giving them access to a housing attorney. Read more.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 3:46 pm
Ed Flynn

Ed Flynn, worrying about Boston's neighboring cities.

The Boston City Council today approved a $13.3-million federal homeland-security grant without the normally required hearing after Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) warned there was no time left, that surrounding communities that would share the grant need the money now. Read more.

By adamg - 1/29/24 - 4:15 pm

Mayor Wu is asking the City Council to begin deliberating the end of an independent BPDA - which she wants to subsume into a new Boston Planning Department completely under the control of the mayor and the city council - and with a new emphasis on urban planning and affordable housing. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 3:31 pm

The Boston City Council agreed today to study the idea of getting into the bus business, with small shuttle-type buses, to serve routes - and hours - that the T doesn't. Read more.

By adamg - 1/24/24 - 2:52 pm

City Councilors decided today to begin focusing on what to do if Steward Health Care, which runs St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton and Carney Hospital in Dorchester, goes under - and to deal with the more immediate issue of Walgreens closing yet another pharmacy in Roxbury and CVS in the Fields Corner Target. Read more.

By adamg - 1/2/24 - 12:46 pm

The State House News Service reports on at-large Councilor Ruthzee Louijeune's plans for the office in which she replaces Councilor Ed Flynn.

By adamg - 12/15/23 - 9:55 pm

No doubt you've heard about all the racists jumping on Michelle Wu because somebody in her office goofed and sent out an invitation to an Electeds of Color Christmas party to white councilors, instead of just the Black and Latino ones. It's been in all the papers. Read more.

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