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The owners of package stores from neighborhoods across the city met on Thursday night to come up with a counter-proposal to Councilor Ricardo Arroyo’s idea to ban miniature alcohol bottles.

A group of liquor store owners in Boston is pushing back against a proposal to ban mini bottles of alcohol, saying that the idea would impact their bottom line. The owners of package stores from neighborhoods across the city met on Thursday night to come up with a counter-proposal to Councilor Ricardo Arroyo’s idea to ban the small liquor...

Boston City Council is expected on Wednesday to begin discussing a proposal to ban mini bottles of liquor, often referred to locally as “nips,” and the proposal is already getting some push back. City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo is pushing for the ban on nips, as he points to a ban in Chelsea that’s been in place since 2018. City leaders…

Teenagers in Boston may soon be able to vote in local elections after the city council approved an amendment to lower the voting age to 16; the measure’s fate now depends on Massachusetts legislators. Boston wouldn’t be the first city to make such move, but it could become one of the largest cities in the country to give younger...

The Boston City Council met Thursday night to discuss how to handle school transportation issues. One by one, parents of students in Boston Public Schools spoke highly critically of the district’s bussing system. Many said buses aren’t showing up on time, and sometimes not at all. “How does a parent operate when it’s a toss-up as to whether or...

Boston city councilors debated Wednesday how to ensure the safety of the city’s light poles after one fell down and injured a woman in the Seaport District. Twenty-three light poles on the Moakley Bridge have been taken down after being inspected and declared unsafe. It was too late for a woman walking across the bridge late last month and...

Documents were released Friday from the Boston Police Department’s 2005 sexual assault investigation into current Suffolk County district attorney candidate Ricardo Arroyo, files that a judge had allowed to be shared with him with personal information redacted. The Arroyo campaign said the documents “prove that both the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office and the Boston Police Department reviewed allegations...

Boston City Councilor and candidate for Suffolk County District Attorney Ricardo Arroyo has filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Boston, in an attempt to gain access to police records pertaining to a 2005 investigation. The suit follows a Boston Globe report that uncovered two sexual assault investigations when Arroyo was a teenager. Arroyo says he only learned recently...

Arroyo is suing the city to get access to files on years-old allegations of sexual assault.

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said his removal from his committee chair assignments and post as council vice president by council president Ed Flynn is unwarranted. “I don’t believe he has the grounds to remove me.  I’ve not…there’s nothing that I have actually done on the council or in any way shape or form in my life that would...

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo confirmed Monday he’s been stripped of his titles as council vice president and as chairman of a couple committees. Council President Ed Flynn said he would “reassess” the decision at the end of 60 days, the Boston Globe reported. Arroyo says he never got an explanation from Flynn, who also rescinded his endorsement of Arroyo…

Boston leaders said this week the city needs to “redouble” its efforts in controlling a rat problem that is apparently getting worse, the Boston Herald reported. “If you don’t solve pest control issues, you know what’s going to happen — people are going to leave the city,” City Council President Ed Flynn said during a hearing Monday to discuss...

An ordinance limiting the hours during which protesters can gather in residential neighborhoods won the backing of the Boston City Council Wednesday in a victory for Mayor Michelle Wu, who has been targeted in the early morning hours outside her home by people protesting her city employee coronavirus vaccine mandate. Wu filed the proposal in February. The measure would allow...

The hearing was happening Friday morning.

A Boston City Council hearing on Mayor Michelle Wu’s employee vaccine mandate is happening Friday morning. It’s been a heated topic inside and outside of City Hall. The City Council is talking about the mayor’s mandate, which requires all 19,000 city employees to be vaccinated. There has been an ongoing back and forth between the mayor’s office and the...

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said Tuesday that he plans to run for Suffolk County district attorney to continue the reforms started by former DA Rachael Rollins. Arroyo, 34, a former public defender, in a statement said his goal is to “build a justice system that protects the safety and dignity of all people” and “One that will maintain the…