City councilors Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End, Chinatown) and Frank Baker (Dorchester) will try for legislative approval to let Boston charge up to a 2% tax on sales of alcohol in local liquor stores and restaurants as a way to curb substance ab
By adamg - Tue, 02/24/2015 - 12:17pm
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By adamg - Thu, 02/12/2015 - 8:46am
By adamg - Sun, 01/18/2015 - 1:21pm
City Councilors Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End, Chinatown) and Steve Murphy (at large) will try once again to persuade the state legislature to let Boston residents over 55 who meet certain income requirements defer parts of their property tax un
By adamg - Wed, 01/14/2015 - 5:51pm
A City Council committee on Friday considers setting up another committee to let councilors examine the implications of the 2024 Olympics bid.
By adamg - Wed, 01/07/2015 - 7:17pm
City Council President Bill Linehan presided over today's council meeting with the help of his very own Bill Linehan bobblehead.
By adamg - Wed, 10/22/2014 - 5:29pm
The City Council today approved a hearing on BPL finances to rein in what at-large City Councilor Steve Murphy called an apparent "shadow government" overseeing Boston libraries
By adamg - Wed, 10/01/2014 - 12:38pm
City Council President Bill Linehan today announced he's keeping the proposed 29% wage hike for councilors in a committee for now, rather than letting councilors vote.
Linehan has vociferously backed increasing councilor pay to $112,500, saying councilors are well worth it, have not gotten raises in eight years and cost city residents less than $9 apiece a year. But at a hearing on Monday, a city attorney warned councilors could be risking fines and prison time if they gave themselves pay hikes under state conflict-of-interest laws.
By adamg - Wed, 09/17/2014 - 1:08pm
It costs the average Bostonian just $8.60 a year to enjoy all the amenities of its current City Council, Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, downtown) said today, urging his fellow councilors to support raising their salaries to $108,500 -
By adamg - Tue, 09/16/2014 - 7:43am
Councilor Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End, Chinatown) tomorrow asks the City Council to consider a proposal that would let people over 55 who have lived in their homes at least ten years defer payment of their city property tax until they sell the
By adamg - Fri, 09/12/2014 - 6:36am
The Globe reports on Council President Bill Linehan's proposal to increase councilor salaries about 29% - to $108,500.
By adamg - Wed, 07/30/2014 - 1:59pm
The City Council agreed today to hold a hearing on how to regulate Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing services.
By adamg - Mon, 07/28/2014 - 7:30pm
City Council President Bill Linehan says it's time to bring companies such as Uber and Lyft under the same sort of regulations already that taxi and pedicab operators already have to follow.
By adamg - Wed, 05/14/2014 - 10:34pm
David Bernstein takes a look at a resolution before the City Council today to recognize the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling. Ten councilors voted for it while councilors Bill Linehan, Steve Murphy and Sal LaMattina voted "present."
LaMattina and Murphy talked to Bernstein about why he voted that way; Linehan and Yancey, who sponsored the measure, didn't return his calls.
UPDATE: Linehan did talk to the Globe, said Yancey filed it at the last moment and he didn't really have a chance to read it and he wasn't going to vote on something he didn't have a chance to consider.
By adamg - Mon, 02/17/2014 - 9:09pm
UPDATE: The Limerick Leader has revised its story and now calls Linehan merely ONE of Boston's top politicians. You know what this calls for, of course:
By adamg - Thu, 02/13/2014 - 10:37am
Rather than just sitting there at the St. Patrick's Day roast while that woman from Dorchester MCs, City Councilor Bill Linehan will instead be in Limerick, Ireland, the Globe reports.
By adamg - Wed, 02/12/2014 - 1:21pm
The Boston City Council today called for a hearing on the medical-marijuana dispensaries the state recently approved for Boylston Street in the Back Bay and So
By adamg - Wed, 02/05/2014 - 11:12am
City Council President Bill Linehan (South Boston, South End, Chinatown) wants the legislature let Boston add a 6.25% tax on liquor sales at local packies to help pay for treatment programs for alcoholics and drug addicts.
By adamg - Mon, 01/06/2014 - 2:32pm
By an 8-5 vote today, the Dorchester Reporter reports. New at-large Councilor Michelle Wu voted for him over at-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley.
In addition to naming chairs of council committees and presiding over council meetings, Linehan would become mayor should anything happen to Marty Walsh.
By adamg - Sat, 01/04/2014 - 5:38pm
MassLive reports at-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley has decided she'd like a go at running the City Council and so will make fellow councilors choose
By adamg - Wed, 12/18/2013 - 2:21pm
The city council today voted 12-1 to ask the legislature to lift the current state cap on liquor licenses in Boston and return control of the Boston Licensing Board to the mayor.
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