Politics
The Relay: New weekly newsletter on Boston 2024 starts today. Click to sign up.John Fish, the Boston 2024 chairman who has come under fire in recent weeks, made an impassioned appeal for support for Boston’s bid for the Summer Olympic Games to leading... Read more
James Rooney, who has led the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority for more than a decade and before that played a role in assembling the Big Dig financing plan, is leaving the authority to succeed Paul Guzzi as president of the Greater Boston... Read more
What started as an emergency work-around to cope with the winter’s avalanche of snow could result in permanent traffic changes in South Boston. Mayor Walsh’s office this week extended its “Emergency Transportation Reconfiguration” plan — that was... Read more
Seeking to make good on a campaign theme, Treasurer Deborah Goldberg on Tuesday plans to detail the creation of a new committee to help her develop a state-run website and other tools for government and private business to achieve wage equality.
Boston... Read more
The Lion of the Senate’s tribute to the body that he loved finally became a reality today with the dedication and opening of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Dorchester. In a ceremony replete with pageantry, its attendees... Read more
The Lion of the Senate’s tribute to the body that he loved finally became a reality today with the dedication and opening of the Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Dorchester. In a ceremony replete with pageantry, its attendees... Read more
It is "not unlikely" that the 40-member Massachusetts Senate might meet at a new scale model representation of the U.S. Senate on Dorchester's Columbia Point when the chamber in the State House undergoes renovations, according to a top Senate Republican.... Read more
Leaders of the Franklin Park Coalition are expressing frustration this week after a March 5 meeting intended to extract more in depth information about Boston 2024 plans for the park failed to meet their expectations.
In an email to members sent yesterday... Read more
Another effort to create a ballot referendum on the 2024 Olympic Games is full speed ahead as Evan Falchuk, founder of the United Independent Party, released draft language of a 2016 ballot question on Wednesday morning.
“The language we have drafted... Read more
The Games are on for Mayor Martin Walsh’s political team. His “super volunteers” are being prepared to move onto the field under the Boston 2024 banner to engage in an extended grassroots campaign to promote a positive public conversation about the bid to... Read more
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