Dec 11, 2024 · 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

Jan 3, 2025 · A non-profit grocery store in Mattapan Square will close its doors this weekend. Daily Table, located on the ground level of The Loop building on River Street, will shut down at the end of the day on Sunday, Jan. 5, according to a letter sent to customers by CEO Sasha Purpura today. The non-profit grocery chain's original store in Dorchester’s Codman Square will stay open.

Jan 8, 2025 · “This city has never been safer, period.” It’s the sort of pronouncement that makes slightly superstitious newsroom editors and probably a lot of cops, prosecutors, and savvy citizens a bit queasy with the thought of jinxing a run of good luck. But, the person who made this declaration during a Dec. 27 press conference alongside Mayor …

Dec 31, 2024 · 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 …

Josh Kraft, a 57-year-old philanthropist and non-profit leader and the son of the longtime New England Patriots owner, officially launched his campaign for mayor of Boston on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at the Prince Hall Grand Lodge ...

Nov 26, 2024 · A state-led commission charged with accelerating plans for an ambitious and costly re-construction of Morrissey Boulevard called for its work to continue deeper into 2025 during a three-hour public meeting held last Thursday night at the Holiday Inn Express on Boston Street. Residents and some members of the commission said that the state Department of Transportation (MassDOT)

Jan 27, 2025 · 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 …

Dec 30, 2024 · 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.