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WBUR TODAY: A mayoral recall effort begins

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  ❤️ Donate Thursday, October 22, 2026 🌤️ Partly cloudy, with a high near 60. Good Morning Boston, The New England Patriots have a little 1986 rematch tonight in Chicago on Thursday Night Football. While Amazon's Prime Video has the national broadcast, you can still watch locally on WCVB and WMUR . But first, the news: Recall me maybe: Facing criminal charges at both the state and federal level, Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña has reiterated that he will not resign from office. But now, a citizen-initiated effort is underway to put his future up to a vote. As WBUR's Kevin Vu reports from Lawrence , a recall effort is officially moving forward, after city officials certified more than 100 signatures needed to start the process. It comes a day after the Lawrence City Council passed a resolution Tuesday night declaring "no confidence" in DePeña. "He's a person that is managing $400 million a year in the city, and people don't trust him," Sarah Perez, a ...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 405. 6/25/26

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 405. 6/25/26 Ron Filipkowski Jun 25 ∙ … 5 major court decisions today - 4 from SCOTUS and 2 from the US District Courts. From SCOTUS Blog: Wolford v. Lopez : “The Supreme Court on struck down a Hawaii law that makes it a crime for gun owners to bring their guns onto private property that is open to the public unless they have the property owner’s specific consent. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with a group of Maui residents with concealed-carry permits that the law violates the 2nd Amend’s guarantee of the right to bear arms.” Mullin v. Doe : “The Court cleared the way for the fed govt to remove protections for citizens of Haiti and Syria under a federal program that allows foreign citizens to stay in the US when the govt believes that it is not safe for them to return to their homes. By a vote of 6-3, the court ruled that the federal law creating the TPS program bars courts from reviewing the determinations by then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to end...