Mayor Michelle Wu
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49 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Yeah, we have a lot of different views in Boston, like in every community. I think we tend to be a place that speaks our mind and remembers our history as the community that's always invested in the greater good. We're home to the first public school in the country, the first public park, the first library, free and open to all. And so...
You know, at the end of the day, we might not vote the same way or worship the same way or watch the same types of shows or follow the same influencers or whatever. But you still want your streets to have potholes filled. You want your kids to go to the best schools. And you can't get away at the local level with just talking the talk. You really have to be out there making a difference.
Yeah, and you just have to keep...
But Boston, even today, is probably different from those days. We are the safest major city in the country. Thank you. But our historically low crime levels now, we're at the lowest levels in at least 70 years when we first started reliably tracking.
And that has come at the same time that we have invested the most in affordable housing, created more affordable housing than in 25 years, invested in the most ever young people in paid summer jobs, early college, childcare.
There's a lot of work to do everywhere. But I think generally, we want everyone to be involved in Boston. We talk about where we've been, where we need to go. And there's a neighborhood meeting every other day or multiple a day.
Yeah, we are, again, we're the safest city because we're safe for everyone. In a community where over a quarter of your residents come from, were born in another country, if people are afraid to drop their kids off at school or call 911 when they need help or share information when they actually have information to report about a crime that happened, that makes everyone less safe.
Whether or not you are an immigrant, whether or not you're here in this country six generations or just arrived. So we're really focused on being that home for everyone. And it's worked.
And so all of the buzz around, you know, whether these kinds of cities that are more welcoming for immigrants are more dangerous, it's about a false narrative that immigrants are somehow more likely to commit crimes or cause harm. And that is just simply not true.
We know that in our city, where our immigrant communities, our entrepreneurs are holding up the best hospitals in the country, the universities and jobs that we all rely on. And in order to make sure that we can keep that progress going, everyone has to feel part of it.
Yeah, and I mean, in some ways, my entire life, I've felt that way. In my family growing up with immigrant parents, government was scary. Government was the thing you were supposed to stay away from. It was parking tickets and taxes and all sorts of things that, you know, you just try to do your thing and stay out of trouble.
But I got into it because this is how to make a difference. And you can change people's lives every single day by just doing the work, by trying your hardest to focus on what is... stressing out the residents in your community, and day by day building on it to turn that around, involving people in the conversation and becoming a city where, again, we are home for everyone.
And I think that's what it comes down to. If we do the work, if we listen to what people are saying about what's challenging in their lives. And we really focus on not just today, but tomorrow and the generations to come after us. That is the legacy of Boston, and that's the legacy that I'm really proud to be able to carry on every day.
I mean, I hear that there's a... Next time you come to Boston, you're going to have to schedule an extra day, and then I will take you around all the city, and then you'll be... To get yelled at by racist white men.
We are an incredibly diverse and welcoming city. And we're a city that really is the example of how everyone in our community, again, majority, people of color, quarter immigrant, and make friends.
The Boston of today is a different city than a lot of people think. But even the Boston of today, we have a lot of work to do, just like every city, just like every community.
A very small group, yes. Aftab and me. Bruce and Todd.
You know, it's unfortunate to politicize being at the scene of a tragic incident. Our officers are in extremely difficult and dangerous situations every single day, keeping our residents safe. And I express condolences along with our police commissioner and district attorney because every loss of life is a horrible tragedy.
I'm also grateful every hour of every day for the work of our Boston police officers. And in this case, we had an off duty officer who saw something happening. His training kicked in and took action and surely saved even more lives.
Across the country, we see that access to women's reproductive health care is under attack. People think that we're leading the way on access to care, as we are in so many other areas, but the fact is we're not.
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