2024年12月11日 · 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.

Boston Public School (BPS) athletes can now officially compete in weight-throwing events as part of track-and-field meets. Until this season, Boston teens training in the event could participate in exhibitions but their...

2025年1月15日 · On next Monday, Jan. 20, our country will honor the work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s a federal holiday meant to remind every American that unity, equality, kindness, opportunity, and justice are all possible to give and receive regardless of one’s skin color. Dr. King was a man who relentlessly fought for …

The controversial MBTA Communities Act is a constitutional law that the attorney general can enforce with legal action, but the measure remains “ineffective” until the Healey administration takes another pass at crafting regulations, the state’s highest court ruled last week.

2025年2月4日 · The Boston School Committee voted last week to change the Exam School Admissions Policy for the next year. A test will not be administered due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus; instead, 20 percent of the students will be admitted based on...

Last week’s Reporter included a report on a Dec. 23 event at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 17 Hall in Lower Mills in which Gov. Healey signed an executive order on ways to increase construction jobs for women and minorities. At one time, there were virtually no women in the construction trades in Massachusetts. Now, just over 10 percent of …

2025年1月7日 · Clap, Winthrop to merge in Frederick space while Dever will close outright Three Dorchester school buildings would close after the 2025-2026 academic year under a plan announced by Mayor Wu and BPS Superintendent Mary Skipper on Tuesday. The announcement— which included confirmation that the Excel High School in South Boston will also close— came after three years of study and

2025年1月15日 · The federal Department of Transportation announced several large grants to Massachusetts for transportation and transit projects last week, including a $2 million award for planning and design work at JFK-UMass MBTA station. The MBTA’s petition for a $99.9 million federal matching grant to reconstruct the station, formerly known as Columbia, was not funded.

2025年1月3日 · 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.

From a diner on Bowdoin Street to a Jamaican restaurant on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan, the Boston Licensing Board on Thursday awarded several new beer-and-wine and all-alcohol licenses to restaurants across Dorchester ...