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Boston City Councilors Julia Mejia and Kenzie Bok have proposed a home rule petition that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in all Boston mayoral and municipal elections. Photo credit Avery Bleichfeld.

Boston City Councilors Julia Mejia and Kenzie Bok have proposed a home rule petition that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in all Boston mayoral and municipal elections.

The special law was discussed in a city council meeting March 16. Mejia and Bok first presented the home rule p

Labor and aviation union members joined the picket line outside Boston Marriott Copley Place Friday to protest the corporation’s hiring of out-of-state contractors and workers instead of Boston labor union workers. Photo credit Olivia Becraft.

Labor and aviation union members, along with elected leaders, joined the picket line formed by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, or AFA-CWA, outside Boston Marriott Copley Place Friday to protest the corporation’s hiring of out-of-state contractor

Mask mandates face conflicting enforcement in Boston public and Catholic schools after Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration declared that masks will no longer be mandated in public schools in Massachusetts, according to a news conference held by the Baker administration and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education earlier this month.

On Feb. 9, Baker announced the statewide mask mandate for K-12 schools will be lifted Feb. 28. Local school districts must individually decide if they w

BARRE, MA – Barre, Massachusetts, a small town 30 minutes outside Worcester, held a town hall meeting with representatives of the Oglala Sioux Nation, Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, and Wounded Knee Descendants Association to declare a historic decision.

At the meeting, Chief Henry Red Cloud of the Oglala Sioux Nation took to the podium to announce that after decades of back and forth with the Barre Museum, the process of returning the Wounded Knee collection is beginning.

“It’s an honor for me t

The B-Side, Boston Globe Media’s witty daily newsletter covering local news, has been reeling in readers with an engaging social media presence on Instagram and TikTok. The B-Side is led by Emily Schario, head of content and lead writer.

The “Daily Dose of News” newsletter launched in Oct. 2022 and has since gained quite a following. As of Dec. 2023, The B-Side TikTok account holds approximately 28,000 followers while the Instagram account has 34,000. Their content is short, informational and —