Brian Worrell

Boston to try again to get more liquor licenses for certain outer neighborhoods

By adamg - 3/22/23 - 3:44 pm

The Boston City Council today unanimously approved a proposed plea to the state legislature to grant Boston 250 new liquor licenses - but only for certain neighborhoods. Read more.

Boston to use $60 million in ARPA funds and dozens of vacant lots to build affordable homes

By adamg - 11/18/22 - 12:31 pm

Mayor Wu today announced a program to use up to 150 vacant city-owned lots to build lower-cost homes - and to offer grants to help people buy homes in a city that has some of the highest housing costs in the country. Read more.

Councilor whose friend was murdered last week calls for more anti-violence work

By adamg - 11/3/22 - 10:43 am

Brian Worrell having trouble getting through his hearing request

Worrell had trouble completing his request for a hearing

Councilor Brian Worrell (Dorchester, Mattapan) had trouble yesterday getting through a formal reading of his request for a hearing on how Boston needs to increase its efforts to curb gun violence. Read more.

Mattapan joins Hyde Park in losing a Walgreens

By adamg - 10/28/22 - 12:35 pm

City Councilor Brian Worrell reports the Walgreens at 90 River St. in Mattapan is closing its doors. Read more.

Councilors to study creation of a commission on reparations for Black Bostonians

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

The City Council today agreed to have a committee consider the idea of creating a Reparations Commission to come up with ways to pay Black Bostonians for centuries of slavery, discrimination and redlining. Read more.

City councilor offers ice cream to kids who shovel out hydrants

By adamg - 1/28/22 - 11:27 pm

New District 4 (Dorchester, Mattapan, bits of Roslindale and JP) Councilor Brian Worrell is offering $10 gift certificates to Fields Corner's Chill on Park to anybody in his district under 18 who sends in a photo of a hydrant they've shoveled out. Worrell credits former District 6 (JP, West Roxbury, Mission Hill) Councilor Matt O'Malley for the idea.

Election roundup: Looks like Roy Owens has lowered his sights for which race to lose this year

By adamg - 5/21/21 - 1:59 pm

Although perennial candidate Roy Owens's mayoral-campaign Web site is still up, he filed papers with the state yesterday to run for the District 7 (Roxbury) City Council seat he has failed to win in the past. Read more.