At the random drawing at City Hall Monday to determine the position of the Boston Mayoral Ballot, Michelle Wu’s name came out of the perforated bingo drum first and will appear on the top of the mayoral ballot in November…
Author: John Lynds
Wu será el primer nombre en la votación
Un sorteo al azar en el Ayuntamiento el lunes determinó que la candidata a la alcaldía Michelle Wu figurará en primer lugar en la boleta electoral en noviembre, y Annissa Essaibi George aparecerá en segundo lugar. Essaibi George fue la…
Wu and Essaibi George will square off in Nov.
In a historic election where four women candidates of color and one male candidate of color all vied for Mayor of Boston, voters on Tuesday have narrowed the field of seven candidates down to two. Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi…
Janey calling on more bodegas and corner stores to join Double Up Food Buck program
Acting Mayor Kim Janey is looking to expand a successful program already up and running at some bodegas and corner stores across the city. The city’s Double Up Food Bucks program has increased the buying power of SNAP recipients in…
Mission Hill/Roxbury COVID-19 infections decrease
During the last week of August the weekly COVID positive test rate soared over 5 percent but infections have dropped throughout September. According to the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC) weekly COVID report, 1,422 Mission Hill/Roxbury residents were tested between…
Mission Hill voters went with Wu and Janey
Boston voters as a whole picked Michelle Wu and Anissa Essaibi George to advance to the November General Election for Boston Mayor, but Mission Hill voters supported Wu and Acting Mayor Kim Janey for Mayor during Boston’s Preliminary Election. Voters…
Two Haitian Americans running for At-Large City Council ask for help for their homeland
Haiti was still recovering from the violent 2010 earthquake that killed 200,000 Haitians when another magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula struck the impoverished country last month on Saturday, August 14. The latest earthquake killed over 2,200 people, injured…
Markey talks the realities of Climate Change at NE Aquarium
At a Climate Action Conversation at the New England Aquarium last Thursday U.S. Sen. Ed Markey called the global warming crisis a ‘Code Red’ and outlined steps needed to be taken now to ensure a sustainable future for the planet. …
Pressley comments on Supreme Court inaction on Texas abortion law
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus’s Abortion Rights and Access Task Force, issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s inaction on Texas’ restrictive abortion law. “The Supreme Court’s refusal to block the enactment of Texas’s dangerous…
Local artists and organizations receive city grants to increase public art in Mission Hill
Last month the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awarded grants to artists and organizations to create short-term public art projects and activations of public spaces through the Transformative Public Art program. In Mission Hill the grant money will fund…