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Water, police finances dominated Madden’s tenure

U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko, left, listens as Mayor Patrick Madden speaks during a new conference on Aug. 23 at Beman Park in Troy. The park is being renovated with funds secured by Tonko through the American Rescue Plan Act, a $350 billion package passed by Congress in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. Jim Franco/Times Union […]

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You’re RACIST, Mayor Wu! A ‘No Whites’ party is against everything my heroic white grandmother and black grandfather fought for. How dare you drag us back to segregation

Eli Steele is a documentary filmmaker and writer.    When I learned that Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu hosted a racially segregated holiday party for the city council’s ‘Electeds of Color,’ I wondered: would I have been invited? After all, my father is black, but my skin looks white. The ‘no whites’ gathering was exposed this […]

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