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A Boston Dirt Bike YouTuber Speaks Out: “They Think We’re Not Human”

In Boston in recent days, it’s been hard to miss the increasing furor over noise and dangerous encounters linked to the city’s “bike life” community, […]

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Count Them Out: Here’s Who Isn’t Running for Mayor of Boston

In a profession that too often lends itself to canned statements and obfuscation, especially when it comes to elections, the candor and wry honesty of […]

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Get to Know Kim Janey, the Next Mayor of Boston

Fellow Bostonians, meet your new mayor. Kim Janey, Boston’s City Council president, is set to assume the corner office at City Hall on an interim […]

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The Very Boston Moments We’ll Remember from 2020

We already know people are obsessed with Boston, whether they live here or not. So as we round out 2020, we felt it was appropriate […]

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The BPDA: Paved and Confused

Like a scene out of The Departed, a pinched old white man in a black jacket leans across the passenger seat of a car to […]

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Robert DeLeo Is King of the Hill

If ever there was a moment when the opaque inner workings of Robert DeLeo’s House of Representatives were revealed for all to see, it was […]

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Do Not Come Between Lydia Edwards and the 2018 Red Sox World Series Trophy

Gonna be honest with you, it’s been a little overwhelming to follow the chaos that’s taken over the MLB over the past week. There’s a […]

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The Boston City Council Candidate Who Lost by One Vote Won’t Challenge the Results

Wow. Just, wow. The biggest Boston City Council nail-biter in recent memory, which last night came down to a single vote has finally come to a […]

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Someone Handed Out Bogus Fliers in Brighton ahead of the City Council Election

Exactly how this went down has yet to be determined, but a bogus campaign literature scheme on behalf of Boston City Council candidate Craig Cashman […]

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How Things Shook Out in the 2019 Boston City Council Election

The results of the 2019 municipal election are in, and it looks like the transformation of Boston’s City Council will continue. For the first time […]

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Video: Boston City Councilor Tim McCarthy Brags about Winning against “Women” and “Minorities”

Boston City Councilor Tim McCarthy was clearly in high spirits the night of September 24, in the hours following the preliminary city council elections. After […]

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Where Is This Year’s Ayanna?

Boston, 2018: land of political upheaval; burial ground for complacent incumbents; a city of voters lifting bold upstarts to surprising victories. Boston, 2019: eh, not […]

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Should Boston Ban Masked Protesters?

After a chaotic two weeks that followed a troll army’s “straight pride” parade—which touched off a legal battle over whether to prosecute the nearly three-dozen people arrested while opposing their message, as […]

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Boston City Council Votes to Support Green New Deal

The Boston City Council passed a resolution in support of the Green New Deal Wednesday, joining Democratic lawmakers in Washington in calling for federal action […]

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Is Hempfest a Bad Neighbor? Boston’s City Council Will Weigh the Question

Could this be the end of the Boston Freedom Rally as we know it? For decades, pro-marijuana activists have held their annual gathering, also known […]