Executive Dave Somers and Boston City Councilor Annissa Essaibi George join ‘America’s News HQ. ’Do

Wu and Annissa Essaibi George topped the five-person race in Tuesday’s preliminary runoff.... They

Boston mayoral candidate Annissa Essaibi George campaigns in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston

PoliticsThis American city has a long history of racism.... In 1994, Massachusetts voters narrowly approved a ballot question banning rent control statewide. Both candidates have spent the final hours of the campaign urging their voters to get to the polls. Nearly 40, 000 ballots have already been cast in early voting.... In 2016, she became the first woman of color to serve as president....

BOSTON— Michelle Wu was sworn in Tuesday as Boston’s first woman and first person of color to be elected mayor in the city’s long history. The swearing-in of the city’s first Asian American mayor came two weeks after Wu won the city’s mayoral election.... Wu has said the proposal would strengthen the city’s economy, address climate change and help those who take the bus or subway to school or work. Like the rent control pledge, Wu can’t unilaterally do away with fares on the public transit syst

For the first time in 200 years, Boston voters have narrowed the field of mayoral candidates to two women of color who will face off against each other in November. The question is, which two?... Essaibi George declared victory late Tuesday night, and both Janey and Campbell conceded defeat.... The Associated Press has not yet called the second finisher because of the close margin of votes separating the three women. All four are candidates of color, as is John Barros, Boston’s former economic

The two winners will face off against each other on Nov.... Wu’s parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan.... Essaibi George describes herself as a first generation Arab-Polish American....

Two of his leading challengers in the field of 17 candidates, Sheila Nezhad and Kate Knuth, strongly supported the proposal.... “ I don’t think that’s the right solution.” World NationIt’s moderate vs.... The details, and who would lead the new agency, would be determined by the mayor and the City Council. Two nationally prominent progressive Democratic leaders — U.S. Rep....

Boston Mayor-elect Michelle Wu addresses supporters at her election night party, on Nov.... " Tonight, we made history in Cincinnati," Pureval told a large gathering of supporters.... They felt he didn't have a" good ballot name" that would appeal to the predominantly white votership in Hamilton County, Ohio....

Meanwhile, in major cities across the country, Democrats will be making decisions about the direction of the party in intra-party mayoral contests that pit progressives against establishment figures.... And in Minneapolis, the" defund the police" progressive movement faces a major test.... Virginia has tilted toward Democrats over the last decade, but McAuliffe and Youngkin are locked in what polls show to be a neck-and-neck race with more than 1.1 million ballots already cast during early vot