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As Boston Tech Week closed out last Sunday, we are also looking back to our Innovation Summit last month. Thanks again to Professor Edward Glaeser for co-hosting, and to all of the CEOs and senior industry leaders who came out to define the next chapter of Boston’s growth and innovation!

Join us on the Boston Pride Tour: a roadmap for exploring queer, trans, and nonbinary legacies across our city! Thank you so much to Club Cafe, Queer History Boston, and Dani’s Queer Bar for bringing us along for the ride.

No young person should have to choose between supporting their families and exploring their passions. In collaboration with partners across the City, Boston will support at least 2,000 learn-and-earn opportunities for high school students this school year.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Boston is so proud to stand with our queer, trans, and nonbinary families, friends, and neighbors as we continue building a city that’s home for everyone.

Summer safety is a year-round mission and a citywide effort. Through collaboration between our communities, institutional partners, and city staff, we are working to support community health and wellness, affordable housing, access to childcare, and good-paying jobs.

Registration for FIFA World Cup Fan Fest on Boston City Hall Plaza is now open! Get started at boston.gov/summer. ⚽

Wishing a blessed Eid Al-Adha to all of our Muslim friends and neighbors.🌙

We’re welcoming Tech Week to Boston! Explore events around the city at tech-week.com/calendar/boston.

Boston BuildHERS is one of the many small businesses working to make Boston a home for everyone during Small Business Month and all year round—and we’re thrilled that our SPACE grant program was able to play a part in their journey!

Many local businesses will be offering their spaces as places to eat, sip, and cheer on your favorite soccer teams together. Find your neighborhood watch party spot in our Neighborhood Business Guide at boston.gov/businessguide.

For #SmallBusinessMonth, we’re spotlighting Boston’s beloved small businesses and small business owners across the city. Thank you to Anh55 (a SPACE grant recipient!) and Anh Vu Sawyer for sharing your story and exemplifying so much of what makes Boston a home for families and businesses.

With concrete goals across buildings, transportation, energy, workforce development, and coastal resilience, Boston’s 2030 Climate Action Plan builds resilience in every neighborhood, and brings benefits to every community. See the plan at boston.gov/climate-action-plan.

Join us for our first Neighborhood Coffee Hour of the year! Talk about your neighborhood directly with City leaders, enjoy treats from Dunkin’ and Star Market, and bring home a free plant from our @parks.boston.gov greenhouses.

By breaking ground on Building F in Charlestown, we are more than doubling the number of families that can call the Bunker Hill Housing Development—and Boston—home.

ADUs support households as they grow and change over the years, paving the way towards more affordable housing. Join us on City Hall Plaza starting today, May 12 through Sunday, May 17th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to tour a full-sized ADU model, and stop by this Saturday for our ADU Resource Fair!

The @parks.boston.gov and @publichealth.boston.gov Boston Summer Fitness Series is back through August! 🏃 Find the full schedule of free classes, activities, and more at boston.gov/fitness.

We just signed a major agreement with @bostonlegacyfc.com detailing the transportation plans and team commitments for Boston’s new White Stadium. I hope you’ll join us to help finalize key details at a community meeting at the Franklin Park Club House on June 11 at 6 p.m.

Boston knows the fight for workers rights is critical. May Day is a celebration of the power of working people, and the effort to advance the rights and well-being of workers everywhere. Thank you to all of the union employees who make sure we can continue to connect residents with dignified work.

During Small Business Month, we’re highlighting the local businesses that shape our neighborhoods. Thank you to Murl’s Kitchen in Dorchester for bringing your best to Boston! Visit boston.gov/smallbusiness to see all the ways we’re celebrating and supporting Boston’s small businesses this May.

👋 So excited to welcome our next @parks.boston.gov Commissioner and first-ever Deputy of Open Space, Diana Fernandez Bibeau, to the team!

Happy AAPI Month, Boston! ❤️

It’s Small Business Month and Boston is celebrating with events, resources, and supports for the more than 18,000 small businesses who call our city home. You can find everything you need at boston.gov/smallbusiness. Shop small and support our local businesses and workers this May!

Please welcome Boston’s next Fire Commissioner, Rodney Marshall! Born and raised in Boston, and having served our city for decades, Commissioner Marshall represents the very best of our city. We are honored to have him lead the country’s oldest and best fire department.

Our 2030 Climate Action Plan will deliver our brightest, most resilient future through citywide action. Thank you to @environment.boston.gov and our community partners whose years of collaboration set the foundation to make this possible. Check out the plan at boston.gov/climate-action-plan. 💚

Isaiah is a Boston student working a paid job supporting his community with Mothers for Justice and Equality. We’re helping more young people find great jobs this summer at boston.gov/futureBOS. Applications are open now.

It’s a big summer for Boston! Go to boston.gov/summer to find everything you need to host a block party, throw a World Cup watch party, or celebrate and honor Boston’s revolutionary history.

Happy Earth Day, Boston. We’re making our city a more resilient, sustainable, and affordable home for everyone by mitigating the impacts of climate change and helping our neighbors save money with clean energy.

The 130th Boston Marathon brought strength, endurance, and joy to our city from all around the globe. Congratulations to our winners and everyone who competed today in the oldest annual marathon in the world!

Boston will take every action to de-escalate, ensure safety, and protect our residents from reckless attacks by the federal administration.

Dorchester’s Taina Mair represents the very best of Boston. Congratulations Taina on being a first round WNBA pick by the Seattle Storm! ⛈️💚

Our budget proposal provides excellent city services for the highest quality of life, invests in our communities, and protects our financial health as a city during tough economic times. With years of careful management and decision-making, we are uniquely positioned in Boston to weather the storm.

City government is where we find a way to get things done and do what matters most. Our proposed budget funds city services for the highest quality of life, delivers significant savings, and protects Boston’s progress in tough economic times.

Boston’s young people can apply for summer jobs right now at boston.gov/futurebos!

Faneuil Hall has always been a beacon of possibility. The vision we are setting out for Faneuil Hall Marketplace—a place filled with the food and the goods and the businesses of every neighborhood in this city—will make it not just a front door to Boston, but a front door to our future.

Happy National Poetry Month, Boston! Please join me in celebrating Ailin Sha, our city’s new Youth Poet Laureate! 👏👏👏

We’re working hard to expand AP courses at @bostonschools.boston.gov. Today, more Boston students are earning AP credit and their performance is at an historic high. ✏️📚

Luis is working a paid job with East Boston Social Centers this school year thanks to futureBOS!

Crispus Attucks is the Black and Indigenous man who, in 1770, spoke out against British injustice and was the first to give his life for American independence. The City of Boston honors his legacy on Crispus Attucks Day.

As we mark the 250th anniversary of Evacuation Day, we ground ourselves in the same values that motivated Bostonians to defend our city two and a half centuries ago: the right of people to govern themselves, speak freely, build communities on their own terms, and defend their home field.

Eid Mubarak, Boston! Wishing a peaceful and blessed Eid to all of our Muslim friends and neighbors. 🌙

We’re taking urgent action to address health disparities outlined in @publichealth.boston.gov’s report on the life expectancy of Black residents in Boston, including new investments alongside @danafarber.bsky.social.

In Boston, we’re celebrating 250 years of American independence and telling the stories of our revolutionary history, including those stories that too often go untold. #Boston250

Supporting our students, more AP classes, addressing absenteeism, guaranteed summer jobs, and college and career readiness helped us raise @bostonschools.boston.gov’s graduation rate to its highest level on record. Thank you to everyone who’s worked so hard on behalf of our students. ❤️

🥁Introducing: The @bostonschools.boston.gov All-Star Marching Band — the official band of @bostonlegacyfc.com, performing at the team’s first match today! Congratulations All-Stars!

Help us keep Boston beautiful! 🌷Visit boston.gov/loveyourblock to host a Love Your Block cleanup in your neighborhood, and the City will provide tools and trash pickup services.

Making Boston a home for everyone means meeting people where they are and delivering on the services they count on. That’s why we hosted our first-ever Office Hours one week ago!

Help us shape the future of family-friendly housing in Boston by filling out @housing.boston.gov’s Family Housing Survey. Submit your response by Sunday, March 22 at boston.gov/familysurvey. 🏡

Boston is standing up for our immigrant communities and funding the help and resources our neighbors need right now.

🐴🧧 Celebrated Lunar New Year at the Lion Dance Parade in Chinatown!

We’re helping our seniors save money on their bills at Cost Saving Clinics across Boston.

Apply today for @planning.boston.gov’s Planning Academy—your opportunity to learn more about how our city is planned, designed, and developed!

One year ago today, I testified before Congress in Washington, D.C. that Boston is proudly a home for everyone—and that the birthplace of American democracy will never turn our backs on our people.

When we invest in our young people, we’re investing in the future of our entire city. Thank you to our @oyea.boston.gov team for hosting the Mayor's Youth Summit, where we can celebrate the young leaders, artists, and advocates who are bringing Boston toward a better and brighter future.

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See you Thursday at Office Hours—your one-stop shop for connecting with me, department staff, and city services!

In Boston, we don’t rewrite history—we learn from it. Thank you to all of our community partners, city teams, residents and neighbors who made our citywide celebrations of 100 years of Black History Month so meaningful.

Welcome back, @bostonschools.boston.gov students! ❄️ Thank you to our snow management crews, bus drivers, school staff and BPS families who worked so hard to make sure our students could safely return to school yesterday morning.

Thank you to all the volunteers who helped keep our streets clear, accessible, and safe for everyone at the Love Your Block shoveling meetups yesterday. 🤍❄️

Some of the greatest snowboarders in the world took over Boston City Hall this weekend. 🏂🔥

The sun is out, the air is crisp, and it’s time to do your part to help keep Boston safe and accessible.

City staff and neighborhood liaisons are organizing shoveling meet-ups all across Boston on Tuesday, Feb. 24, to help our neighbors dig out from this blizzard. Check out the times and locations in the thread and find info at boston.gov/shovel.

Boston snow updates!

Meeting with outreach workers at the Pine Street Inn tonight as we prepare for a historic winter storm.

A nor’easter is starting tonight and will continue through Monday. Boston is ready.