Domingos DaRosa plans to run a "grassroots" campaign. Prominent developer Thomas O’Brien is reportedly considering a mayoral bid as well. The post Mayoral race: Community activist to challenge Wu, as real estate developer weighs run of his own appeared first on Boston.

O’Brien has been quietly weighing for months whether to get into the race, according to people with whom he has discussed the matter.

Boston needs a more conservative, pull no punches mayoral candidate to challenge lefty Michelle Wu and it will be a missed opportunity for the city if no one emerges as that voice. City Councilor Ed Flynn of South Boston,

Mayor Wu has yet to officially launch her reelection campaign, but she couldn’t ask for a bigger stage to show why she deserves four more years.

She stood up for the city and refused to cower in the face of threats and smears,” one of more than 1,700 respondents said. The post Mayor Michelle Wu represented Boston well at the ‘sanctuary cities’ congressional hearing,

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu testified before a House committee on so-called "sanctuary cities" in Washington Wednesday.

The much-hyped hearing, Wu’s first time on the national stage, turned out not to be so much of a show but more of a legal grilling of the mayor and three other city mayors aimed at getting them to

If you want to make us safe, pass gun reforms, stop cutting Medicaid, stop cutting cancer research, stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.”

Mayor Michele Wu said she's ready to testify before a congressional panel​ Wednesday on Boston's sanctuary city policies.

Wu was one of four Democratic mayors called before the committee. The three others — Eric Adams of New York City, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, and Mike Johnston of Denver — chose not to give the yes or no answer requested by Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina when she asked, “Is breaking into our country against the law?”

While being questioned in a House hearing this week, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu berated Trump's border czar, Tom Homan.

But as they attempted to slander so-called “sanctuary cities” for refusing to surrender to President Donald Trump’s deportation threats in advance, the representatives were clearly unprepared to have their own failures laid bare.