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Hanging on utility poles and traffic signals and posted beside bus stops, corrugated plastic signs promote people willing to buy homes or diabetic test strips for cash and advertise local businesses. But these illegally posted signs are a point of concern for leaders of local neighborhood associations. “They’re not very attractive,” said Lorraine Payne Wheeler,

Following the ruling of a federal judge in Texas that has thrown into question the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Massachusetts organizations are working to help local DACA recipients renew their status. The ruling, from Judge Andrew Hanen in the District Court of the Southern District of Texas, prohibits United

Acting Mayor Kim Janey picked up key endorsements last week from the prominent Arroyo family as well as a leading progressive state legislator, boosting her campaign to hold on to power at City Hall in a close mayoral contest. Suffolk County Register of Probate Felix D. Arroyo, the first Latino to win a citywide seat

Seven candidates for the District 7 City Council seat discussed housing, the opiod crisis, public safety and other municipal issues during an online forum hosted by local ward committees and civic groups last week. Former District 7 Councilor Tito Jackson moderated the panel. The following are summaries of the candidates’ positions on issues raised by

The Boston School Committee voted last Wednesday in favor of a new policy for entrance to the city’s three exam schools in which students will be selected from eight tiers, divided by socio economic factors including income of families in a student’s census tract, the number of households in which a language other than English

Citing wait lists for summer programs and school buildings with no air conditioning, District 4 City Councilor Andrea Campbell held a press conference last Wednesday calling on the Boston Public Schools to accelerate their release of millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funding. Boston is slated to receive more than $400 million in Elementary

The Attorney General’s office last Friday cleared a ballot question that, if approved by voters this November, would shift the balance of power in Boston’s budget process by giving the council the authority to amend a mayor’s budget “in whole, or in part,” and override a mayoral veto with a two-thirds vote. The ballot initiative

Six candidates for City Council battled last week for the attention of District 4 voters in a crowded race for the seat covering parts of Mattapan, Dorchester, Roslindale and Jamaica Plain. The Ward 18 Democratic Committee and Progressive West Roxbury hosted a forum via Zoom on July 1 with candidates who filled out the groups’

With three city councilors and an acting mayor locked in a competition to lead the city, a group of white and Asian parents making a last-ditch effort to overturn a policy aimed at diversifying admissions to the city’s three exam schools and acting Mayor Kim Janey’s $3.6 billion city budget hanging in the balance at

Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, who represents about half of Boston in the state Senate, has joined two other candidates in the 2022 race for Massachusetts governor. Though Gov. Charlie Baker has not indicated whether he will run again, two others have entered the ring so far: Danielle Allen, a Harvard professor, and Ben Downing, a former