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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks to reporters in January. On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Boston City Council passed Mayor Wu’s measure to increase commercial tax rates with a 12-1 vote. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER.

Mayor Wu’s commercial tax rate increase passes in City Council, continues to receive criticism

Liam Dunne November 4, 2024
Boston City Council passed a new measure to increase commercial property taxes last week after Mayor Michelle Wu reached a compromise with local businesses that continues to receive praise and backlash.
Men's march

Men’s March protest met with pro-abortion protest at the State House

Daily Free Press Staff October 17, 2022
Anti-abortion protestors gathered outside Planned Parenthood at 1055 Commonwealth Avenue and walked to the Massachusetts State House at a “Men’s March for Life” rally on Saturday, a national organization that calls on men to abolish abortion, rally for personhood and be “men of god,” according to the Men’s March mission statement.
Abortion is a human right sign

Boston protestors gather to speak out against drafted Supreme Court opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade

Talia Lissauer May 5, 2022
Thousands of pro-choice protesters gathered at the Massachusetts State House May 3.
carla sheffield speaks at a mass action against police brutality event

Protestors demand justice for Daunte Wright, others killed by police

Daniel Kool April 16, 2021
More than 100 gathered outside the State House Thursday, as Derek Chauvin's trial continued.
demonstrators at a stop asian hate protest in boston common

Activists rally against racists attacks on Asian Americans

Madison Mercado March 15, 2021
The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. If Walsh is confirmed by the Senate as Labor Secretary, he will look to take his labor- and community-oriented values to Washington. OLIVIA FALCIGNO/ DFP FILE

Recap of Walsh’s mayoral legacy

Daniel Kool January 28, 2021
At 21, he joined Boston’s Laborers Local 223 Union, maintaining active involvement for over 20 years. Now, the 53-year-old is being pulled to D.C., where he awaits a likely confirmation as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker discussed COVID-19, the economy, racial injustice and other issues during his annual State of the Commonwealth speech Tuesday. THALIA LAUZON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Baker delivers virtual State of the Commonwealth address

Isabella Abraham January 27, 2021
From his office at the State House, Baker began the speech by acknowledging the damage of, and lives lost to, COVID-19 — what he called “the worst public health crisis of the last 100 years.”
Demonstrators gathered outside the Massachusetts Statehouse Monday to ask the Biden administration to end the United States’ role in ongoing armed conflicts in Yemen. ANRAN XIE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protesters demand end to U.S. involvement in Yemen

Rin Velasco January 26, 2021
Bostonians gathered at the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest the military conflict in Yemen Monday afternoon, asking the Biden administration to halt support of a war that has raged since 2014.
Boston erupts in joy, relief after Biden named nation’s 46th president

Boston erupts in joy, relief after Biden named nation’s 46th president

Daily Free Press Staff November 7, 2020
Cheering and chanting as cars driving by honked in solidarity, hundreds of supporters of president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris gathered near the Boston Common Saturday afternoon to celebrate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Kimberly Atkins, a journalist for WBUR and alumna of Boston University’s College of Communication, spoke at a virtual panel hosted by COM on Wednesday entitled “An Election Like No Other: Journalists Share Final Thoughts.” LAURYN ALLEN | DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Pandemic tosses new curveballs to journalists covering election

Caroline Bowden November 4, 2020
A panel of BU alumni and journalists offered insight into the historic nature of presidential election coverage in a virtual panel Saturday entitled “An Election Like No Other: Journalists Share Final Thoughts."
Demonstrators march along Beacon Street to the Massachusetts State House. SHANNON DAMIANO | DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

GALLERY: Boston Red Cloaks protest confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

Shannon Damiano October 28, 2020

The Boston Red Cloaks, a group of women who dress up as handmaids from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and advocate for women’s equality, gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Sunday...

Mass. voters to choose congressional candidates in Sept. 1 primary

Mass. voters to choose congressional candidates in Sept. 1 primary

Daily Free Press Staff August 31, 2020
Massachusetts is gearing up for a primary election unlike any the state has seen before. Voters are choosing their party’s U.S. Congress candidates Tuesday, while the state battles a pandemic and record unemployment rates.
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