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City council race: Gabriela "Gigi" Coletta running for District 1

City council race: Gabriela “Gigi” Coletta running for District 1

Lex Weaver, Editor-in-chief January 12, 2022

Editor's Note (4/7): The spring election for the next D-1 councilor will be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. For more information about the election, please visit here. Gabriela “Gigi” Coletta, political...

Screencapture of a data visualization of Boston's Nov. 2 election results.

The Results: A breakdown of the Boston 2021 general election

Ha Ta, Audience Engagement Editor November 4, 2021

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Boston voters to new mayor: Fix housing, Mass. & Cass, education

Boston voters to new mayor: Fix housing, Mass. & Cass, education

Sebastian Grace, Aparna Sekhar, and Jess Silverman November 2, 2021

  Boston voters at the polls Tuesday offered many suggestions to the new mayor on issues ranging from housing, public safety and education. The historic election will see either Annissa Essaibi...

Carrera por el Ayuntamiento: David Halbert se postula para el escaño general

Desirée Vignola, Translator October 30, 2021

David Halbert, servidor público experimentado y ex gerente de alcance del Instituto de Justicia Educativa del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT por sus siglas en inglés), se postula para un...

Carrera por el Ayuntamiento: Carla B. Monteiro se postula para el escaño general

Desirée Vignola, Translator October 30, 2021

Carla B. Monteiro, trabajadora social y defensora de la comunidad, se está postulando para el escaño general en el Concejo Municipal de Boston. Monteiro se postula contra al menos otros 15 candidatos,...

市议会竞选: Carla B. Monteiro正在竞选大议员席位

Zhaozhou Dai, Translator October 30, 2021

Carla B. Monteiro 是一名社会工作者和社区倡导者,正在竞选波士顿市议会大议员席位。 Monteiro正在与至少 15 名其他候选人竞争,其中包括现任者Michael Flaherty和Julia...

Polling ahead: Michelle Wu’s campaign has volunteers speak to unclaimed voters in a strategy to win the election

Polling ahead: Michelle Wu’s campaign has volunteers speak to unclaimed voters in a strategy to win the election

Delaney Murray, Reporter October 21, 2021

  West Roxbury retiree Jonathan Feltner and finance consultant Steven Lee volunteer for Michelle Wu’s mayoral campaign exclusively as a pair. The duo believes talking to members of their community...

(L-R) Michelle Wu, Annissa Essaibi Georg

Essaibi George and Wu turn up the heat at second live debate

Jacob Bentzinger, CityWatch Reporter October 20, 2021

  Boston mayoral candidates Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George butted heads in their second public debate Tuesday evening. Topics included rent stabilization, public transit and Boston public...

(L-R) Michelle Wu, Annissa Essaibi Georg

Michelle Wu, Annissa Essaibi George and Boston City Council candidates advance to the general election

Lex Weaver, Editor-in-chief September 15, 2021

  After a long night of delays due to a surplus of mail-in and dropbox ballots on election day, the mayoral and Boston City Council results are finally in. Over 45 candidates ran for 13 City...

Bostonians voice their concerns at the mayoral primaries: ‘You can’t complain if you didn’t participate’

Bostonians voice their concerns at the mayoral primaries: ‘You can’t complain if you didn’t participate’

Boston voters at Tuesday’s historic preliminary mayoral election called for a leader who will take action on a wide variety of issues — from improving public education and raising vaccination rates,...

Courtesy of the Edward Flynn campaign.

City council race: Edward Flynn running for reelection for District 2

Lex Weaver, Editor-in-chief September 13, 2021

  Edward Flynn, the incumbent City Councilor for District 2, is running to keep his seat on the Council. District 2 includes the Chinatown, Downtown, South End and South Boston neighborhoods. Flynn...

Courtesy of the Eric Porter campaign.

City council race: Eric Porter running for District 9

Ha Ta, Audience Engagement Editor September 8, 2021

  Eric Porter, an entrepreneur and business owner from Allston, is running to be the next District 9 City Councilor.  Porter is running against the incumbent Councilor Liz Breadon, Michael...

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