Big Brother is watching you in Boston. The city’s first annual surveillance report highlighted an array of ways the Boston Police Department uses technology to detect and prevent crime, including, but not limited to, the use of cameras throughout neighborhoods, cell phone monitoring, body-worn cameras on officers and automated license plate readers. Boston Mayor Michelle … Read more
The planned massive renovation at Franklin Park’s White Stadium will be in front of the Boston Planning & Development Agency this week, fresh off key approvals from other city boards. “I feel confident because this process has been so thorough and extensive,” Boston Unity Soccer Partner’s controlling manager Jennifer Epstein told the Herald. “There has … Read more
The City of Boston and Office of LGBTQ+ Advancement will formerly kick off a month of Pride festivities with a flag raising at City Hall on Monday. The LGBTQ+ flag raising, a yearly tradition at the start of June in Boston, will start at 11 a.m. Monday in City Hall Plaza. The event will feature … Read more
The head of the city’s largest police union said a person entering Boston City Hall with a gun should be a wakeup call for officials to tighten up security there, by placing armed police officers at entrances currently manned by unarmed guards. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. … Read more
William Gross, the first Black commissioner of the Boston Police Department, says he’s feeling “perturbed” that the North End, filled with Italian restaurants, is being singled out with heavy restrictions on outdoor dining. Gross remembers arriving in Boston from rural Maryland as a youngster with his family in 1975, when forced busing existed in the … Read more
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s plan to increase property taxes on businesses beyond the state limit is continuing to receive skepticism, with the City Council the latest to express concern on how the proposal could do more harm than good. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is … Read more
The Boston City Council wants to raise the maximum age requirement for entry into the police academy to 45 to “allow more residents with different life experiences and backgrounds to become officers and better serve the city.” Candidates must be younger than the age 40 to become a cop in the city — a requirement … Read more
North End restaurateurs behind a lawsuit claiming the city has shown ill-will toward them by imposing restrictions on outdoor dining will have to wait longer to meet with the mayor to discuss how they can find a compromise. Hundreds of community members – restaurant owners, employees and residents – from the neighborhood packed Saint Joseph’s … Read more
Mayor Michelle Wu stood by her position that the city will not consider applying the initiative granting BPS students free access to museums to other students on Sunday. “This was a very carefully negotiated opportunity over the course of an entire year of conversations and negotiations,” Wu said, visiting the Boston Children’s Museum with her … Read more
North End restaurateurs are accusing Mayor Michelle Wu of showing them no love by using funds they paid to provide outdoor dining in 2022 to purchase an electric street sweeper. Though the $552,000 sweeper has traversed city streets for nearly two years, restaurant owners are using the purchase as a crucial argument that the mayor … Read more
