Wu and her audience a forward look for Boston

Optimistic. Intelligent. Articulate. Polished. Upbeat. Confident. Michelle Wu is a great look for Boston. And so was the audience for her State of the City talk last Wednesday, one year into her term as mayor. Several thousand gathered in person for her address at the MGM Music Hall in the Fenway, and they were as …

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Setti Warren pursuing vision as Newton mayor

He’s affable, charming and seems to be getting things done.  Setti Warren is running for second term as mayor of Newton.  He is on a mission, he says, of building a sustainable, livable community, a model city for the 21st century.  In the preliminary, he beat challenger Ted Hess-Mahan by a more than three-to-one margin, …

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Warren unfairly under fire on affordable housing

Newton Mayor Setti Warren is catching flak from some Garden City liberals for withholding  $1.4 million in city-controlled federal money for a ten-unit building in a former fire station in the Waban section of Newton. The so-called Engine 6 project would house nine chronically homeless and an attendant, bringing to the residential neighborhood individuals with a history of …

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