Emma Platoff

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Emma Platoff |Niki Griswold

But so far, the one that seems to be taking center stage is money — who’s giving it, who’s spending it, whose dad has a lot of it, and how much of it is funding attack ads.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Emma Platoff |Matt Stout

A super PAC aligned with mayoral candidate Josh Kraft announced Thursday it will spend an additional $1 million on attack ads against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, bringing its total negative spending to $2.4 million — an eye-popping sum so early in the race that could put the city on track for its most expensive mayoral race yet.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Emma Platoff |Niki Griswold

Sure, it’s Boston politics. But even by that bare-knuckle standard, this year’s mayoral race has gotten off to a fiery start. Mayor Michelle Wu and Josh Kraft, the nonprofit executive currently seen as the greatest threat to her reelection, have been sniping at each other since he entered the race three months ago, when he said she had “not risen to” the city’s challenges and she suggested that he doesn’t understand them.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Emma Platoff

A month after his father helped broker a meeting between the Trump administration and prominent law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison LLP, Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft received $1,000 in political contributions from four top attorneys at the firm, including its chairman, Brad Karp. In mid-March, President Trump signed an executive order targeting Paul Weiss as part of a broader attack on elite law firms.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Emma Platoff

“We are aware of information alleging that schools in Boston have faced unacceptable incidents of anti-Semitic harassment and violence,” wrote Justice Department attorney Leo Terrell, adding that administration officials wanted to meet with Wu “within the next 30 days.”Officials from the Justice Department proposed a meeting on April 23, and set a site visit on April 9 for staff to prepare for the conversation.