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Minding the Gaps: Boston City Council Gets Updates On City’s Bike Network
On Thursday afternoon, Boston’s City Council Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation held a hearing on truck safety and the status of Boston’s citywide plan for a connected network of safe bike routes. In recent months, the City Council has used committee hearings to take a more active...
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Boston city official pleads guilty to pandemic loan fraud
A former Boston city official pleaded guilty to receiving a fraudulent government loan during the Covid-19 pandemic. Reuben Taylor, 40, the former director for the Boston Municipal Protective Services, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In 2008, Taylor began working for BMPS, an unarmed security...
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Nancy Pelosi honored with Edward M. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award in Boston
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What Milton’s Special Town Meeting decided on the $11.75M Labouré campus, and upcoming Special Election
Town Meeting approved the purchase at the October Special Town Meeting. Voters decide in a town-wide special election on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Milton’s plan to buy the former Labouré College campus at 303 Adams Street cleared its first major hurdle on Monday, Oct. 19, when Special Town Meeting voted 168–45 to let the Select Board buy the property for $11.75 million and borrow the money to pay for it. That is well over the two-thirds majority the vote needed.
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Without a deal, Brigham and Women's nurses begin open-ended strike on Thursday
With thousands of Brigham and Women's Hospital nurses gearing up to go on strike again and march through the streets of Longwood Medical Area later this week, Gov. Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu made appearances at a pivotal negotiating session Monday. "We attended the start of the negotiating...
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Boston officials announce new housing proposals to entice developers
City officials announced a new plan on Monday to increase Boston’s housing stock by easing requirements for developers. Boston — like other cities across the Commonwealth and beyond — has struggled with increases in the cost of construction materials, high interest rates, and high vacancy in commercial buildings.
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Election season is done. Holiday season is approaching. And lawmakers still have dozens of big decisions to make.
THERE’S NO PLACE like the State House for the holidays. It’s easy to forget amid all the hubbub of a national blue wave and a nine-question state ballot, but with the election now past, the Legislature has a long list of business left to accomplish in the eight holiday-punctuated weeks remaining before the 2025-2026 term draws to a close.