The mayor of Boston is proposing for children as young as 11 and illegal immigrants to have a say in the city’s budget. On Tuesday, Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, announced during a city council ...

Few documents in municipal government are as important as the city budget. The New York City budget, an annual agreement between the Mayor and the City Council due before or on June 30th each year, ...

The Wu administration is reviewing the legality of the cuts the Boston City Council made to a fund used to settle city lawsuits in a chaotic nine-hour budget debate with tears and f-bombs that ...

Mayor Michelle Wu released new tax figures that project commercial property valuations falling by another 6% next year.

The far left stance that police budgets are made for cutting is getting old. Especially as progressive cities around the country are backtracking and finally getting tough on crime. Less than two ...

New England’s largest city Boston has it all, from a fantastic seafood scene and more historic buildings than you can shake a stick at, to quaint streets and a bustling harbour. December marks 250 ...

Many schools across Boston are bracing for substantial cuts to staffing and program as the Boston School Committee prepares to vote Wednesday night on a $1.5 billion budget proposal for the upcoming ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu proposed a $4.8 billion city budget that she says may need to be adjusted down the line depending on the outcome of potential federal funding cuts, some of which the city is ...

Mayor Michelle Wu filed her Fiscal Year 2026 annual operating budget and five-year 2026-2030 Capital Plan Wednesday, revealing a $4.8 billion operating budget for 2026 and a $4.5 billion capital plan.

BOSTON - Here's a million-dollar question: should middle and high schoolers have a say in how your tax dollars are spent? In 2014, Boston became the first city in the nation to launch the "Youth Lead ...

As she pitched her FY25 budget plans for Boston at a breakfast Wednesday, Mayor Michelle Wu pushed back hard at the idea that declining commercial real estate values could lead to a fiscal crisis for ...

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