Election roundup: Janey gets the Wakanda vote

WGBH reports Dianne Wilkerson's Wakanda II task is backing Kim Janey successful her bid to enactment successful the mayor's bureau travel Jan. 1.

The group's extremity is to coalesce astir a azygous Black candidate; that they picked Janey shouldn't beryllium each that overmuch of a astonishment fixed an effort earlier successful the twelvemonth to effort to get Andrea Campbell to driblet retired of the race, adjacent though she started moving erstwhile it looked similar 1 of her opponents would beryllium Marty Walsh, not Kim Janey.

Also backing Janey: Former City Councilor, one-time mayoral campaigner and existent potrepreneur Tito Jackson.

But don't archer that to Chynah Tyler. The Roxbury authorities rep contiguous endorsed Campbell (former authorities Rep. Marie St. Fleur and erstwhile Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral had earlier endorsed Campbell).

Meanwhile, Michelle Wu and a fig of section restaurateurs accidental it's clip for Boston to get New Yorkish and necessitate impervious of vaccination astatine definite nationalist gathering spots, specified arsenic restaurants. Janey, of course, is resistant. Annissa Essaibi George is nary fan, either.

John Barros wants to usage immoderate of that saccharine national infrastructure wealth to electrify the Fairmount Line and summation work to bring it connected par with the T's subway lines.

Jamaica Plain News talks to the 3 candidates for the District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Mission Hill) spot Matt O'Malley is giving up - Kendra Hicks, Mary Tamer and Winnie Eke - astir improvement and the thought of an elected schoolhouse committee. Then the tract talks to them immoderate more astir constabulary reform, exam schools and bicycles.

Several vicinity associations are sponsoring an in-person forum for the gazillion, well, 17, candidates for the 4 at-large seats connected the City Council, starting astatine 6 p.m. connected Thursday astatine the Hyde Park Muni, 1179 River St.

The Scope interviews James "Reggie" Colimon and Erin Murphy, who are each moving for 1 of those 4 seats.

Angelina "Angie" Camacho, moving for the District 7 (Roxbury) spot Janey is giving up, reports she's been endorsed by the Boston Teachers Union, the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters, the Greater Boston Labor Council, IBEW Local 2222, the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Organization for Women.