Niki Griswold

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Niki Griswold

Retired municipal employees are again pushing the Boston Retirement Board to raise pensioners’ annual cost of living adjustment, one year after the board rejected the increase on the recommendation of Mayor Michelle Wu. Retirees and their labor unions have been advocating for the boost for years, which would deliver retirees a larger annual increase to their pension payouts than they currently recieve each year to account for increases in the cost of housing, groceries, and transportation.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Niki Griswold

Fernandes Anderson attended Thursday night’s event, where she was warmly greeted by some audience members. She previously told the Globe she plans to step down some time in June, and said Thursday night that she is still working on her transition plan. That involves putting together a workbook to hand off to her successor, in order to ensure continuity and “to pass on as a baton to the next councilor,” she said.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Nick Stoico |Niki Griswold

Two Boston City Hall employees have been fired after they were arrested last week in connection to a domestic incident in a Chinatown apartment, a spokesperson for Mayor Michelle Wu’s office said Tuesday. Marwa Khudaynazar, 27, chief of staff for the city’s Office of Police Accountability, and Chulan Huang, 26, who worked in the Office of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion, had been placed on unpaid leave following their arrests.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Niki Griswold

Rubin is also the co-chair and co-founder of the criminal justice advocacy group REFORM Alliance, of which Robert Kraft is a founding partner. Josh Kraft was largely expected to receive support from a broad network of wealthy donors in his bid to challenge Wu, given the nonprofit leader’s own relationships and his father’s connections. Individuals can only donate up to $1,000 to a political candidate in a calendar year, according to state law.

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.