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demonstrators gathered at Marriott Labor Day Rally

Union and non-union workers rally for rehire on Labor Day

Madison Mercado September 7, 2021
Labor Day rally hosted Monday in support of workers fired by Marriott Copley during the pandemic.
Boston mayoral candidates John Barros, Andrea Campbell, Kim Janey, Annissa Essaibi George, Jon Santiago and Michelle Wu at the Suffolk County House of Corrections May 28. The candidates addressed criminal justice reform, mental health resources and more at their first in-person mayoral forum. COURTESY OF PETER VAN DELFT

Suffolk County Sheriff Department holds first in-person 2021 mayoral forum

Madison Mercado June 2, 2021
Six Boston mayoral candidates debated in the first in-person forum of the year last Wednesday.
florida ruffin ridley school in brookline

City Council endorses statewide child care assistance bill

Madison Mercado April 6, 2021
The Common Start bill would provide public funding for affordable early education and child care.
A child plays with toys.

City and state lawmakers jumpstart child care agenda

Samuele Petruccelli February 22, 2021
The Mayor’s Office will conduct its second Boston Childcare Survey alongside this year’s Annual Resident Listing. Meanwhile, a separate bill pushing to establish universal child care in Massachusetts is circulating the statehouse.
Wetlands in Concord, Massachusetts. The City of Boston recognized World Wetlands Day for the first time Tuesday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston observes its first World Wetlands Day

Isabella Abraham February 3, 2021
World Wetlands Day commemorates the Feb. 2, 1971 signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, which internationally recognized the value of preserving and maintaining wetlands, and serves as a day to raise global awareness about wetlands protection.
Mayor Martin Walsh shovels dirt Thursday morning at 40 Dorchester St. where a new training facility for labor union Pipefitters Local 537 is to be built. PHOTO BY BREANNE KOVATCH/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pipefitters union breaks ground on new state-of-the-art facility

Breanne Kovatch September 15, 2017

  A Dorchester-based union broke ground on a new training facility for their apprentices Thursday morning with Boston Mayor Martin Walsh and Councilor Annissa Essaibi George in attendance....

Boston City Council holds a meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss mental health in the Boston Police Department. PHOTO BY BRIAN SONG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

City Council discusses use of mental health clinicians in BPD

Breanne Kovatch February 15, 2017

Approximately 20 people attended a Boston City Council meeting Tuesday for a hearing on increased investments in mental health clinicians in the Boston Police Department. Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George...

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