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CBS News
6 hours ago
- Politics
- CBS News
Keller: Wu looks to play "Trump card" against Kraft, who has an uphill climb in the polls
The opinions expressed below are Jon Keller's, not those of WBZ, CBS News or Paramount Global. With less than 100 days to go before Boston voters choose their mayor for the next four years, incumbent Michelle Wu is basking in the glow of what one recent poll found was a whopping 65% job approval rating among Boston voters. But there are some trouble spots on the Wu record that chief challenger Josh Kraft thinks he can exploit. That includes the controversial, increasingly costly rehab of Franklin Park's White Stadium into a shared public/private facility. "Mayor Wu thinks the voters of Boston are a bunch of fools," said Kraft at a press conference slamming Wu for hedging on the projected cost of the project. "I did vote for Mayor Wu the first election, [but] I have serious concerns this time," said Jamaica Plain resident Melissa Hamel, part of a group suing the city over the White Stadium project. "I don't like the fact that our community meetings have been less than transparent. Basically we were told what we were gonna get, we weren't asked." And Kraft sees a political opportunity there. "This election is about giving voters a a candidate that says they want to be inclusive of all voices and a candidate that actually listens to those voices before a decision is made," he says. To which Wu countered: "All he said is that we don't listen enough and he will listen more. But my question is, listen to who? Trump mega-donors?" There it is, the Wu campaign's Trump card. The president is about as popular in Boston as a packed subway car in a heatwave with no AC. And that recent poll showed standing up to Trump was a top three issue on the minds of Boston voters. "The federal government has retreated from the real challenges that we face everyday," Wu said. And while Kraft says he's never voted for Trump and thinks he's unfit, his chance for an upset may depend on somehow trumping the Trump card. The most recent polling had Wu with a huge 30-point lead. Can Kraft possibly overcome that? Yes, but he has a tough climb ahead. Despite criticism over White Stadium, bike lanes and the state of the public schools, the mayor's personal popularity is sky-high, while Kraft is running TV ads trying to boost his own approval rating. It's been 76 years since an incumbent mayor of Boston lost a re-election bid, and Wu has proven she's not going to be a pushover.
Yahoo
22-06-2025
- Yahoo
Boy, 11, shot in North Lawndale park, police say
An 11-year-old boy was shot and injured at a North Lawndale park Saturday afternoon, according to Chicago police. Police said an unknown gunman shot the boy in his lower back just before 5:30 p.m. at Franklin Park in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue, police said. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in good condition. Police said no suspects were in custody, and that detectives' investigation was underway.
CBS News
22-06-2025
- CBS News
11-year-old shot in Franklin Park on Chicago's West Side
An 11-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting Saturday afternoon in a park in the North Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. Police said, shortly before 5:30 p.m., the boy was in Franklin Park, in the 1400 block of South Tripp Avenue, when an unknown person shot him in the lower back. The boy was taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition. No one was in custody Saturday evening. Area 4 detectives were investigating.
BBC News
21-06-2025
- BBC News
Bhim Kohli death: 'Dad's killing won't drive us from our home'
"Why should we be pushed out? Why should we allow these two children to push us out of where my dad once loved, where we love?"The words of Susan Kohli, whose 80-year-old father Bhim Kohli died after being racially abused and brutally attacked at a park just yards from the family home in Braunstone, Leicestershire.A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl were both found guilty of Mr Kohli's manslaughter and were sentenced earlier this to the BBC, Mrs Kohli admitted she had discussed with her mother the idea of moving away from the area - but questioned why it should be them that has to leave their community. The boy was sentenced to seven years in custody while the girl was given a three-year youth rehabilitation order and made subject to a six-month curfew, which Mrs Kohli said was "unanswerable"."In the last nine months, there has been a lot of talk between me and my mum because the incident happened literally on our doorstep," she said."So whenever you walk out the door, it's a constant reminder of what happened to dad."We've had these discussions about do we stay? Do we go?"The attack on Mr Kohli happened as he walked his dog, Rocky, in Franklin Park on 1 September last year. He died a day later in boy racially abused Mr Kohli before slapping him in the face with a slider shoe, while the girl encouraged the assault and laughed as she filmed it on her can be named because of their ages. Mrs Kohli said her neighbours had been "amazing" and "so supportive" in the difficult months since."And that's where we feel, will we get the same neighbours when you move away?" she said."It's the people that's keeping us there. It's the people and it's the memories."It is just the fact that all of my dad's memories are there."They will always be in our heart." Despite this, Mrs Kohli feels there are questions to be answered in their community following her father's this month it was revealed that Mr Kohli had spoken to police just two weeks before his death after seeing another Asian man being assaulted by two white boys, who threw a large rock at Kohli added: "We need to call out whenever these issues are happening. We need to face it. And if we don't, it is just going to continue."Leicestershire Police said "organisational learning" to improve logging anti-social behaviour had been force added it had undertaken an investigation, reviewed by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, which did not identify any "misconduct or missed opportunities which could have prevented Mr Kohli's death".
CBS News
19-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Juneteenth in Boston: What to know about the celebrations, free museum admission and what's open today
Today Boston marks Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, the Union Army reached Galveston Bay, Texas and it was announced that all enslaved people in the state were now free. Massachusetts enacted a law to make Juneteenth a state holiday in 2020, and officially observed the holiday for the first time in 2021. Here's a look at Juneteenth celebrations and events that are planned around the Boston area on Thursday. Juneteenth events around Boston Cambridge is having a Juneteenth Freedom Day parade and celebration. The parade starts at 10 a.m. at the corner of Mass. Ave and Pleasant Street in Central Square. It goes down Pleasant Street, to Western Avenue, to Blackstone Street and ends at Riverside Press Park. There will be a celebration at the park with music, food and performances. Brookline is hosting a free block party from noon to 4 p.m. at the Florida Ruffin Ridley School. There will be free food, music games, dancing and waterslides. The historic Shirley-Eustis House is hosting a "Freedom Cookout" from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Roxbury. There will be free tours of the mansion, free food, games and live entertainment. Take the ferry to Georges Island in Boston Harbor for live music and "powerful explorations of Black History in Boston." The free event is from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boston's Juneteenth celebration will be held on Saturday, June 21 at Franklin Park. Picnics, barbecues, music and dancing are planned at Shattuck Picnic Grove and all around the park. Free museum admission on Juneteenth in Boston The Museum of African American History in Boston is free to all visitors for a Juneteenth Open House. Family-friendly activities include Underground Railroad walking tours, story time, dancing, face painting and story time. The Museum of Fine Arts is offering free admission for all Massachusetts residents on June 19. One of the featured exhibits is Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, spotlighting the work of the Roxbury artist whose work racial prejudice and social injustice. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is also having a free day on Thursday. It will include "performances, conversations, and activities that celebrate community and freedom with Boston-based Black artists and leaders." The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is offering free admission, but you must get advanced tickets online. What's open and what's closed on Juneteenth in Massachusetts? Juneteenth is a federal holiday, so that means the post office and the stock market are closed Thursday. Public schools and libraries are closed in Massachusetts on Juneteenth. All courts and Registry of Motor Vehicle offices are closed Thursday and will reopen Friday. Banks like Bank of America, TD Bank and Wells Fargo are closing for the holiday. Most retailers and supermarkets should be open on Thursday.
