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This week, protesters filled Boston City Hall as Mayor Michelle Wu announced plans for vaccine a mandate and vaccine passports. The mandate garnered mixed reactions. While some applauded the decision, other reactions were extreme, and in some cases misogynistic and racist. “There’s constant calls associating me with the same hateful, racist xenophobic language that the former president used in...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is facing heavy push back for her new COVID mandate and has received many hate messages, some targeting her gender and ethnicity.

A week after winning office as Boston’s mayor, and a week before stepping into the role, Michelle Wu has announced new plans for her transition. The mayor-elect on Tuesday named co-chairs and advisors of her transition team, including outgoing Mayor Kim Janey, who will serve as the honorary chair of the transition. The co-chairs of the team include Charlotte...

Less than a week after she was tapped to serve in Boston’s top political office, Michelle Wu sat down with NBC10 Boston’s Latoyia Edwards for a candid conversation on topics ranging from the Mass. and Cass crisis to raising her sons. The 36-year-old Wu made history last week when Boston voters elected a woman and an Asian American as...

With just days left before Boston voters head to the polls to select the city’s next mayor, Michelle Wu has received yet another endorsement — this time from former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Citing Wu’s proven track record and bold vision, Patrick called Wu the best candidate to bring people together and move Boston forward. “The best leaders bring...

Boston voters will select a new mayor in less than a week, and there won’t be a standard two-month transition period. Whoever replaces Acting Mayor Kim Janey will be sworn in just two weeks after the historic election. Michelle Wu or Annissa Essaibi George will have only 14 days to put together her team, connect with key department heads and…

With just one week till election day, Boston mayoral candidates Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George are laser focused on getting out their vote and final message.

With a week to go until the election, Michelle Wu sat down Tuesday night for a one-on-one conversation with NBC10 Boston’s Latoyia Edwards, in partnership with King Boston and the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts.

With a week to go until the election, Annissa Essaibi George sat down Tuesday night for a one-on-one conversation with NBC10 Boston’s Latoyia Edwards, in partnership with King Boston and the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts.

Bostonians who are registered to vote can cast their ballots at any of a number of early voting locations across the city starting Saturday and running through next Friday, Oct. 29.

Early voting is getting underway in Boston’s historic mayoral election. Bostonians who are registered to vote can cast their ballots at any of a number of early voting locations across the city starting Saturday and running through next Friday, Oct. 29. The race pits Boston city councilor Michelle Wu against fellow councilor Annissa Essaibi George. Wu, 36, whose parents immigrated…

Both candidates stopped by early voting locations on Saturday.

David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, discusses the new poll’s findings.

On a beautiful fall Sunday in Boston, both mayoral candidates were busy on the campaign trail, trying to win over supporters with a little over two weeks until the election. Annissa Essaibi-George was surrounded by frontline workers in the drug-ridden and troubled “Mass and Cass” area, while Michelle Wu was in Moakley Park with support from Sen. Ed Markey. “The…

There’s just 17 days left until Election Day.

Every week until election day, NBC10 Boston Political Reporter Alison King & Commentator Sue O’Connell break down the latest on the historic race for Boston’s mayor.

NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Boston and NECN, in partnership with the Dorchester Reporter and the Bay State Banner, hosted an hour-long live general election Boston mayoral debate inside the NBCUniversal Boston Media Center on Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. The second head-to-head debate with candidates Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu was held inside a secure and closed studio inside…

Last weekend it was Acting Mayor Kim Janey. This week it’s Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. Boston mayoral candidate Michelle Wu has picked up a second key endorsement in less than a week. “Michelle has a passion for service and a vision for our city that is grounded in her own lived experience and belief in the transformative potential of policy,”...

Michelle Wu’s opponent, Annissa Essaibi-George, says she’s disappointed to not have Pressley’s endorsement but the endorsement she’s looking for is the people of Boston.

NBC10 Boston caught up to all of the candidates Sunday as they made one last push before the preliminary election.