Setti Warren is engaged a series of “lasts” as Newton’s mayor. In February, he delivered his final “State of the City” address. This past Tuesday, he delivered his final city budget. On May 24 he will host his final “Mayor’s Community Prayer Breakfast” at Boston College. In June, it will be time for his final Newton North and South graduations as mayor….and so on.
Although Warren will occupy the mayor’s office until the end of this
Newton Mayor Setti Warren told Boston Herald radio yesterday that he would follow Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s lead and open Newton City Hall as a safe haven for illegal immigrants if President Trump steps up deportations.
“If in fact there are draconian measures taken by the federal government and people feel unsafe and they need places to go, of
In a new column, Newton TAB Editor Andy Levin raises a question that’s been bothering me for a while too: How is it that Newton Mayor Setti Warren can champion growing Newton’s affordable housing stock while his Planning Department and the Zoning Board of Appeals continues to cite a questionable claim that Newton has met its 40B threshold?
This sizeable anti-development movement is being enabled by a city government that on one hand has a “housing strategy” but on the other has taken a position that makes achieving the goals of the plan extraordinarily difficult.
Setti Warren outlined his case against Charlie Baker on WGBH’s Greater Boston recently. Do you think our mayor’s arguments stand a chance against one of the nation’s most popular governors?Go to Read More to watch
Newton Mayor Setti Warren is calling for an independent review of School Committee governance to ensure future committees “can operate effectively as a group” following the controversial handling of anti-Semitic incidents at F.A. Day Middle School, The TAB’s Jonathan Dame reports.
In an unusual move on Monday, Warren emailed the entire School Committee listing four actions he argued should be taken following a series of TAB stories about an outside investigator’s report on graffiti incidents at Day
Mayor Warren apparently picked up a couple of endorsements today, before officially announcing his candidacy.
This came across in the MASSter List this morning:
Setti’s coup
Newton Mayor Setti Warren has landed major endorsements from three former state Democratic Party leaders, suddenly making his yet-to-be-announced gubernatorial candidacy a very legitimate, and non-laughable, matter. According to Kevin Franck, Warren’s recently hired communications advisor,
Our mayor published an essay today on MassLive that begins…
My two kids probably could not think of anything more torturous than being forced to watch a boring speech by the President of the United States, but I made them watch President Obama’s farewell address last Tuesday, anyway.
I told them the things parents usually say: You might learn something. You’re witnessing history. When the president addresses the nation, everyone should listen.
But the truth is, making them watch our first African-American president say goodbye was more about me than them. I didn’t even care if they paid attention; this was a moment I wanted to experience with my arms around them.
Read the rest here.
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